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SASKATOON: Prairie city chooses city-builder as mayor
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the spring of 2013, Spacing profiled Saskatoon city councillor Charlie Clark in our national edition. He had caught our eye for taking a strong interest in public realm and...
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Bikes and Belonging: helping Toronto feel like home
This post by Yvonne Verlinden is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Yvonne’s research project was funded through the RBC...
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Book Review: Where We Want to Live—Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New...
Author: Ryan Gravel (St. Martin’s, 2016) It is not often that a graduate school project turns into a best selling book, let alone a transformative infrastructure projects that is reshaping a large...
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LORINC: Trump-proofing Canadian communities
Amidst the miasma of grief and bewilderment that engulfed the past week, I have found myself pondering the question: are we vulnerable, and if so, how? Certainly, Conservative leadership hopeful...
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Realizing the untapped potential of Canada’s city parks
Spacing is a media partner of Canada’s first national conference on city parks, hosted by Park People, in 2017 in Calgary. Parks make our cities more livable and lovable. They are a critical element of...
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Book Review – Research Methods for Architecture
Author: Raymond Lucas (Laurence King, 2016) “As a discipline, architecture often struggles with the idea of research…” It’s difficult to think of a more accurate opening statement to Ray Lucas’...
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Hamilton: The benefits of living on the outskirts of cool
Despite its new reputation as a real estate hotbed, Hamilton has yet to be branded as an internationally renowned cultural hub, though the annual Supercrawl arts festival is threatening to change that....
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Is Public Sex in Parks a Public Safety Concern?
By Marsha McLeod and Jen Roberton The presence of public sex in parks is a long standing tradition in urban centres. For some, having public sex is a fetish. For others, they may frequent parks for...
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Book Review From the Stacks – More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today
Editor: Jennifer Siegal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) More Mobile is the little book that roared. About the size of a stack of old 6”x 9” photos (remember those), this modest 145-page book...
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Book Review: Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585
Edited by Todd Gannon (Applied Research & Design Publishing, 2016) No. 9 – Source Books in Architecture Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585, the ninth in the Source Books for Architecture series,...
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WWW: Rethinking urban space
Designing urban spaces for women How Vienna incorporates gender into public policy and urban planning practices to promote inclusive urban design. Placing pedestrians first to improve urban livability...
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WWW: Making art functional in cities around the world
Alleys to Art A neighborhood in Philadelphia has transformed a formerly derelict alleyway into a work of art by installing a glowing LED mural. The project aims to improve the safety of underused...
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Book Review – Austere Gardens: Thoughts on Landscape, Restraint, & Attending
Author: Marc Treib (ORO Editions, 2016) With no less than sixteen books under his belt focused on landscape and architecture and countless contributions to a wide variety of similarly themed...
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WWW: Transportation strategies to accommodate new technology
Sao Paulo’s innovative plan for regulating Uber Regulating alternative transportation services such as Uber has proved to be a controversial topic within urban public policy. Sao Paulo’s unique plan...
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Book Review—Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Author: Robert Kanigel (Knopf , 2016) Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs is the first significant biography of the woman who changed the way many of us view and live in cities. And just like...
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WWW: How global cities are adopting new technologies to improve their livability
From highline to lowline: New York City approves the world’s first underground park Faced with the success of the Manhattan Highline project, New York has approved the redevelopment of an unused...
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Book Review—Local Code: 3659 Proposals About Data, Design, and the Nature of...
Author: Nicholas de Monchaux (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Sometimes, you don’t know where you are going until you get there. And perhaps no better statement can be used to describe Nicholas...
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WWW: Improving the viability of bike sharing infrastructure
The high cost of bike shares vs. public transit How can we readjust the pricing of bike shares to be more accessible and economical for public transit customers, particularly for single-ride users?...
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LORINC: Be very wary of Canada’s Trump-lite politicians
What kinds of thoughts, I wonder, were skittering through the minds of Conservative leadership hopefuls Kellie Leitch and Kevin O’Leary when they tuned in to the astonishing scenes of protest from...
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Book Review: Where Are the Women Architects?
Author: Despina Stratigakos (Princeton University Press, 2016) The title says it all. In this poignant, frank, and succinct volume, University at Buffalo State University of New York associate...
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