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Book Review: Velotopia
Author: Steven Fleming (nai010 publishers, 2017) “No one would say Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin did good for the world, but we can learn so much from his logical process. If Le Corbusier were alive now,...
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Book Review: Glacier Skywalk
Written by Clea Sturgess, Trevor Boddy, and Jeremy Sturgess – Figure 1 Publishing (2017) The Glacier Skywalk construction process had to be carefully planned to be as efficient as possible on a fixed...
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Book Review – Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public
Author: Doug Suisman (ORO Editions, 2014) As an urban design instructor, practitioner and bibliophile, it is a rare pleasure to discover lesser known, critical and insightful books on urban structure....
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Book Review: Binning House
Author: Matthew Soules (ORO Editions, 2017) Spending time in the Binning House is like being enveloped in a gentle super-reality, not a parallel reality, but a simple amplification or re-positioning of...
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Book Review – You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Author: Wendy Lesser (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) When I was completing the final project of my Interior Design degree, I started the project off by buying a monograph of well-known modern...
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Call for Entries: Urbanarium’s 2017 Missing Middle Housing Competition
What would it take to solve Vancouver’s housing crisis? The not-for-profit organization Urbanarium has issued an invitation to talented designers from around the world to develop and present...
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Book Review – Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Author: Eyal Weizman (MIT Press, 2017) I was as surprised as anybody: consoling a number of design students in the foyer of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) after spending three hours...
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Book Review – Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Author: Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury Press, 2016) In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it...
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Film Review: BIG Time
Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder Not often does Spacing have the opportunity to review a movie receiving its North American premier, including an interview with the film’s director, but such has been...
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Book Review: The Visual Biography of Color
Author: Frank Jacobus (ORO Editions, 2016) Like so many wonderful facets of world that permeate our lives, colour is often taken for granted. More than a visual phenomenon, its references penetrate...
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The Robbie collection of Expo 67 objects
Rod Robbie is a Canadian architecture legend, but to Caroline, Angus, Karen, and Nicola — the keepers of Rod’s vast archives — he was just a dad with a cool job and a pack-rat tendency. Torontonians...
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Sustainability infrastructure and the pursuit of global city status: a look...
This post by Ryan Anders Whitney is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Ryan is an urban sustainability planner and current PhD...
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Book Review – Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal...
Editor: Stefan Al (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014) Although writing and research on informal settlements has increased significantly over the past decades, works that attempt to accurately capture...
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Book Review: Friedman House
Written by Richard Cavell, ORO Editions (2017) UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Following Dr. Friedman’s passing, the fate of the house was uncertain, and an attempt to acquire a heritage...
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Notes from Italy
“To make this course of action clear to my French readers, I must explain that in Italy, a country very far away from us, people are still driven to despair by love.” Stendahl Stendahl Syndrome can be...
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This is wonderful, thanks! It puts me in mind of the ancient Boston tradition of putting an old kitchen chair in the street to save your parking space after you have shoveled snow from it (street...
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On the Sunshine Coast (northwest of Vancouver), bus stops are cared for in this way, too. Most bus stops have a pair of plastic lawn chairs sitting next to the sign post. It’s interesting that the...
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In reply to <a href="http://spacing.ca/montreal/2009/12/16/bring-your-own-chair/#comment-13775">Bobierto</a>. I think most of the chairs are those that had been replaced and would otherwise...
View ArticleThe Future Fix: Smart Cities, Reconsidered
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Cities, Reconsidered The term “Smart Cities” has been...
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Book Review: Building With Paper – Architecture and Construction
Edited by Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, and Samuel Schabel – Berkhauser Verlag, 2023 To identify industrial solutions in the building industry, missing basics such as material parameters must be worked...
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