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Six-foot City: Conclusion
This series has explored the impacts of doubling the current personal space radius from 3ft (1m) to 6ft (2m) across three everyday spaces. This was done...
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Six-foot City: Public Transit
Anybody who has experienced a well-used public transit system during rush hour knows that relaxing their ‘personal space bubbles’ to a minimum is...
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Six-foot City: The Classroom
That the pandemic has had a disastrous effect on local and global economies is blatantly clear. But we take for granted that the contemporary economic...
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Six-foot City: The Corridor
The lowly corridor falls well short of being adored by most people. Within our contemporary cultural imagination, its association with darkness and evil...
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Six-Foot City: Introduction
Although the recent pandemic has brought to light many important issues, none has been more pervasive than social distancing. Embedded in this discussion...
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Book review: No Place to Go
Author: Lezlie Lowe (Coachhouse Books, 2018) What makes a city good? Nice coffee shops? A decent public transit system? Abundant green space? For Lezlie...
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hindsight: Strathcona
Click here for a larger image. What happens when a crisis, much like the one we are acutely dealing with right now, undermines the normal operation of our...
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Release: Revamped Bike to Work Week goes virtual, May 25-31st
HUB Cycling’s popular, bi-annual Bike to Work Week takes on a new name this Spring as Go By Bike Week presented by MEC. The event motivates...
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Podcast: COVID Reflections
It is safe to say that it’s been a wild few months. And now, after two months of strict social distancing here in Canada, many provinces are starting to...
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Book Review – What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Author: Matt Hern (MIT Press, 2017) Book Reviewers: William Dunn & Claire Adams Portland is a liveable, progressive, and hip city. It’s also...
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Video Vancouver: Why Public Transit’s Coronavirus Crisis is Different
About Here I’m really really worried about public transit. So I decided to do something brave and made a video on the internet about it.
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Book Review: Trains, Buses People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
Author: Christof Spieler (Island Press, 2018) Christof Spieler’s Trains, Buses, People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit is a refreshing look at...
By Andrew Cuthbert
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered