Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Climate bowls, city cams and carmaggedon
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond
Author: Michael Maltzan (Hatje Cantz, 2011) Through conversations with a photographer, journalist, urban planner, futurist and a number of...
By David Peacock -
Origami City: Transportation 2040 planning to bring Vancouver closer together
When Spacing made its formal debut in Vancouver this June, the city’s new urban generation was able to make good use of the bar on one side of the...
By Brian Gould -
World Wide Wednesday: Transfer Accelerators, London Tube Map
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Building Type Basics for Transit Facilities
Author: Kenneth W. Griffin (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) We’ve all been in poorly designed train stations. Inadequate lighting, narrow platforms...
By John Calimente -
Metro Vancouver Mayors Make Bold Bid to Fund Regional Transit
Poor Evergreen Line. You’ve been talked about for so long that we thought you’d already been built. But no, here it is 2011 and all we have is...
By John Calimente -
World Wide Wednesday: Renegade infrastructure funding, Brazilian street art, ant planning
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture’s Engagement with the City
Editors: Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) In his well-known 1978 book – Collage City – architectural...
By Sean Ruthen -
School Troubles in a Booming Metropolis – Part 2: Intergenerational Communities
[Editors Note: this is a revised version of a four-piece series originally published on Planning Pool. You can read the first part here.] To serve a...
By Vanessa Kay -
World Wide Wednesday: Brains, Sprints, Ads and Bridges
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
School Troubles in a Booming Metropolis – Part 1: Demographics and Family Housing
[Editors Note: this is a revised version of a four-piece series originally published on Planning Pool] Recent years have not been easy for public schools...
By Vanessa Kay -
Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haitian Villages
Author: Steven Holl (Princeton Architectural Presss, 2011) Reviewed by Ellen Ziegler, Spacing Vancouver Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haitian Villages...
By Elle Ziegler