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UrbSanity: The public city

Cities are communities. While we all have our private concerns, goals, and obligations, as a city we also have to think collectively about our shared public lives and spaces. “Public” is at the centre...

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Investing in Cycling in Scarborough

This post by Marvin Macaraig, Ph.D., is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Marvin is the Scarborough Cycles Project Coordinator at...

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Book Review – Timber in the City: Design and Construction in Mass Timber

Author: Andrew Bernheimer (Oro Editions, 2015) About two and a half years ago I had the opportunity in my last year of University to do an internship with Michael Green Architecture (MGA). This was...

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Call for submissions: MAQ ‘Young Critic in Architecture’ competition

The Maison de l’architecture du Québec is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the MAQ Young Critic in Architecture Competition (Concours Jeune Critique MAQ en architecture). The MAQ created this...

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Book Review – Roads Were Not Built For Cars

Author: Carlton Reid (Island Press, 2015) There has been a lot of discussion recently around getting more cyclists on the roads, be it for health, environmental reasons, or relieving traffic...

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Book Review – Busby: Architecture’s New Edges

Centuries from now, when historians look back to the beginning of the Anthropocene, a time when we realized that human beings had become the dominant influence on living systems, we will be...

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LORINC: Harper’s failure of target marketed politics

As the federal election stumbles towards a weary conclusion, it may not be an overstatement to say this contest will long be remembered for the way in which an entirely fake controversy, over an item...

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ELECTION: What does each party say about city issues?

As voting day rapidly approaches for the 2015 federal election, Spacing has been tracking the buzzwords for some urban concepts on the four federal parties’ websites to see who’s talking about what....

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UrbSanity: Embracing Change

Change is good. Despite this most people, myself included, are hesitant about change because we are comfortable with what we have and where we are but like it or not change is all around us.  We learn...

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Book Review: A Line in the Andes/Una Linea En Los Andes

Editor:  Felipe Correa & Ramiro Almeida (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2013) “What country is that?” is a common question I get as people stare blankly at the yellow, blue and red soccer...

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Message to Trudeau: Voters spoke loud and clear for cities

A month before the election, Calgary’s hugely popular mayor Naheed Nenshi told a reporter: “Whoever gets transit right, whoever figures out how to improve the quality of life for people who live in...

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Critical Elements to Make Pedestrian Streets Work

We currently dedicate an excessive amount of street public space for the movement and storage of automobiles. We can bring dignity to our streets where people live, work and play by reclaiming it for...

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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy Symposium, Call for Abstracts

Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of Design March 10-12, 2016 |  University of British Columbia, Vancouver View the conference website This is a call for...

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Urban forestry and the greening of Canadian cities

Call it the second wave of urban greening: hot on the heels of urban farming, urban forestry is emerging as the new frontier of sustainable urban planning and land use. Canada’s urban forest exists in...

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Overhaul or demolish 24 Sussex?

Much has recently been discussed about the restoration or demolition and replacement of 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Like many old buildings, this house has asbestos, leaky windows, and a terrifying...

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UrbSanity: Streetside spots—new tactics for public space

Last month, the NCC Capital Urbanism Lab hosted a talk with Mike Lydon, co-author of “Tactical Urbanism: Short-term action for longterm change”. The talk was well attended and enthusiastically...

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Book Review: Start-Up City

Author: Gabe Klein (Island Press, 2015) When I was in my second year of University I wrote a blog post that got a lot of (very rare) traction. I pitted the new ride-sharing program Car2Go against...

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How to have better conversations about Paris

This article was co-written with Beyhan Farhadi Immediately following the Paris attacks a deep divide emerged. On one side, there were messages of solidarity, hashtag mobilization, and temporary...

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Book Review – 100 Diagrams That Changed the World

It all begins with a diagram. In architecture, it is the grand design of the floor plan; in mathematics, it is the graphic representation of an algebraic or geometric relationship; in physics,...

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Sound-tracking the city

Sitting on the bus. Walking down the street. Running along the canal. Waiting in traffic. We spend a lot of time moving (or not moving) through the city. With our earbuds in, our movement through the...

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