The City in Sight Podcast: Indigenous Cities
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Indigenous Cities The Indigenous population in urban areas is...
View ArticleThe Future Fix: Smart energy transition
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. This is a special, French-language edition. Spacing et Evergreen présentent...
View ArticleThe City in Sight Podcast: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change Throughout this...
View ArticleBook Review | Growing Up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes
Written by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser Publishing, 2021) Publishing these stories allows both architects and those interested in architecture to view these iconic buildings from...
View ArticleThe Future Fix: Connecting your community to broadband
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Connecting your community to broadband Reliable access to the...
View ArticleBook Review | The City is Not A Computer
Author: Shannon Mattern (Princeton University Press, 2021) As we know, the world is in the thick of a data explosion that is affecting all facets of society and all disciplines. Urban planning and...
View Article10 ways for Canadian cities to plan for play
You make a deal with the city where you live to put up with a certain amount of discomfort and nuisance in exchange for being part of something bigger and more exciting than life in the hinterland. You...
View ArticleLORINC: The climate crisis must be the ballot question for this federal election
One of the sturdiest tropes of political rhetoric and punditry is that elections, especially those that end minority governments, are a burden. Voters are called upon to engage in taxing behaviours,...
View ArticleThe Future Fix: Tech lessons COVID taught us
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Tech Lessons COVID Taught Us Throughout the pandemic, we’ve seen...
View ArticleBook Review: Canadian Architecture
Written by Leslie Jen, Figure 1 Publishing (2021) What is Canadian architecture? The question has often been posed, with no single satisfactory response. Understandably so, as Canada is not only vast...
View ArticleBook Review: Cuban Modernism – Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970
Authors: Victor Deupi & Jean-Francois Lejeune (Birkhäuser, 2021) In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the 1959 revolution and in...
View ArticleBook Review: 250 Things an Architect Should Know
Author: Michael Sorkin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) Equal parts poetic, practical, playful, and wise, Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know presents a compelling and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Stahl House – Case Study House #22
Written by Shari Stahl Gronwald, Bruce Stahl, and Kim Cross, Chronicle Books (2021) Considered one of the most iconic and recognizable examples of mid-century modern homes in the world, it was first...
View ArticleThe Overhead: Bringing balance to the housing crisis
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Bringing balance to the...
View ArticleJoan Didion was an urbanist
After a month of reading the essays of Joan Didion—the American author whose literary reputation seemed to ascend to new heights when she died late last year— I discovered something unexpected: Didion...
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