Features
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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 -
World Wide Wednesday: Swings, Shifts and Copycat Towns
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 -
The Changing City
A fine-grain tour of Vancouver’s central areas, divided into twelve neighborhood walks, John Atkin and Andy Coupland’s new book The Changing City takes...
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Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
The quest to integrate a rapid urbanization with natural living systems is a top priority for cities around the globe. Tim Beatley’s attempts to...
By Kevin Zhang -
(re)Designing Nature: Current Concepts for Shaping Nature in Art and Landscape Architecture.
Given our ecological pressure and current drive towards urbanization, seeking to reevaluate the divisive relationship between the built world and nature...
By Erick Villagomez -
Pamphlet Architecture 31: Coupling
A gallery and manifesto for a team of multi-titled architectural strategists: COUPLING offers both a graphically thrilling presentation of large scale...
By Spacing -
Partnerships in Urban Property Development
Property development is a fascinating game with a range of players that increases with the size and complexity of the project. Things get even more...
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Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettres
“Known for his modern architecture, numbering fewer than sixty buildings, Charles Edouard Jeanneret/Le Corbusier (1887-1965) also wrote some fifty...
By Sean Ruthen -
Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post-carbon World
With years of research and experience in designing sustainable urban landscape, University of British Columbia Professor Patrick Condon shares what he has...
By Elle Ziegler -
Down Detour Road
Eric Cesal shares his personal account of the direction the profession of architecture needs to move to on the heels of the recent financial collapse, in...
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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
“To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more...
By Laura Kozak