Reclaiming Spaces/Places: Revealing a forgotten Indigenous visual narrative...
Reclaiming Spaces/Places is an ongoing series written by Lacey McRae Williams that shares stories of Indigenous resurgence through public art and planning across Canada, Turtle Island (North America)....
View ArticleLessons on rekindling a regional romance: a visit to Hamilton reveals a...
A peculiar day-trip took citizens of Ontario’s capital on an exploration of the history and revitalisation of Southern Ontario’s other major urban centre. It’s Hamiltime and Emily Glazer has filed this...
View ArticleUse Modular Design To Foster Flexible and Incremental City Building
At Slow Streets we embrace a philosophy of quicker, lighter and cost effective infrastructure. We believe that this approach can yield the same results and quality. Practically speaking, this can be...
View ArticleBook Review From The Stacks: A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in...
“To observe the city’s architecture is to enter into the optimistic vision of its planners and designers and so to engage in the work-in-progress that is Vancouver. The city’s sense of...
View ArticleVisual Thoughts #54
Last VT image: Trout Lake Community Centre, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer with...
View ArticleRolling Youth into Toronto’s Bicycle Renaissance
This post by Jeffrey Trieu is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about the think tank, and the series, here. With...
View ArticleBook Review From The Stacks – Learning From Japan: Single Story Urbanism
“SANAA’s work does not introduce order as do those mid-century architectures to which it is routinely compared; rather it imposes a fine disorder and instability, at times even an agitation, into the...
View ArticleLa guerre des drones et notre espace urbain
Alors qu’Amazon est en train de peaufiner ses modes de livraison par drone en Colombie-Britannique, le récent crash d’un UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) dans le jardin de la Maison blanche et les survols...
View ArticleBook Review From The Stacks – Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Affective...
Author: Henry Shaftoe (EarthScan, 2008) Henry Shaftoe’s Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Affective Public Places is a thorough and informative investigation into what is needed to make public...
View ArticleAccidental Parkland: Toronto Ravine & waterfront documentary + 100in1day...
Hot drone action! White water torrents! Underground rivers! An urban region of six million people and more coming! We need your help to tell an exciting story. I’ve been walking the GTA’s ravines and...
View ArticleCartographically Speaking: Canada by Land Cover Type
The series of maps below are a Canadian version of a project called “Minimal Maps” by Michael Pecirno. The original project took a simple view of land cover in the United States and displayed it so...
View ArticleBook Review – New Museums in China
Museums in China are booming. Their unique forms and innovative structures stand out among the more mundane buildings of China’s explosive urban growth, announcing that the country’s new money is...
View ArticleBook Review – Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable...
Author: Jared Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) Sometimes the strongest way to get a message across is through simplicity. When dealing with a topic as broad as a “sustainable world” it...
View ArticleSPACING: Celebrate release of summer issue & Jane Jacobs Prize winners
WHAT: Summer 2015 issue release party & Jane Jacobs Prize ceremony WHEN: Wed., July 15th, 7-11:30pm (ceremony runs from 7-8om) WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 344) / 1395 Lake Shore Blvd. W.,...
View ArticleBook Review From The Stacks: Cotton Worldwide
Authors: Hans Peter Jost, Christina Kleineidam (Lars Müller Publishers, 2009) Cotton Worldwide is an eye-opening portrait of the international cotton industry. Through writing and photography,...
View ArticlePorch Parade
Summer is the time to get outdoors, and in the same spirit as the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, the City of Vancouver has once again closed Robson between Hornby and Howe Streets...
View ArticleBook Review From The Stacks: Reservoir
Photos by Bas Princen, edited by Moritz Kung (Hatje Cantz, 2011) There is no unexplored territory left on this earth. Our species, and has touched, developed, flown over, or altered nearly every...
View ArticleVisual Thoughts #57
Last VT image: Jericho Beach on a sunny summer day, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer...
View ArticleCost Effective Improvements for Better Transit Today
Canadian municipalities are confronted with an interesting predicament – our cities are growing at unprecedented rates. For municipalities, this population growth means greater strains on our...
View ArticleBook Review – The West Coast Modern House
The West Coast Modern House chronicles the development of mid-century modern Vancouver residential architecture and its continued influence on contemporary practice. The post-war era in Vancouver...
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