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Book Review – State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?
Author: Worldwatch Institute (Island Press, 2016) Every year since I started writing for Spacing, I have found myself anxiously awaiting the next State of the World book from the Worldwatch Institute....
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Book Reviews From The Stacks – Snøhetta Works
Editors: Snøhetta (Lars Müller Publishing – 2009) These projects and descriptions together have been selected to show the wide range, at times informal directions, and sheer energy of some of...
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Book Review: The City That Never Was
Author: Christopher Marcinkoski (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) The world captured within The City That Never Was by Christopher Marcinkoski reminds me very much of a JG Ballard novel titled...
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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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WWW: New urban food innovations from around the world
Alternatives to urban food waste How cities are implementing creative solutions to reduce and reuse the excessive quantity of food waste amassed by households and retailers. The rise of online grocery...
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WWW: Alternative housing options not just for the Dutch and hippies
Mutually beneficial housing relationships between students and seniors A Dutch hosing development provides free housing for students in exchange for an allocation of 30 hours of their time, per month,...
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PARKS: The changing nature of parks — interview with Adrian Benepe
Ahead of Park People’s first national city parks conference in Calgary this coming March 2017, Park People’s Jake Tobin Garrett caught up with Adrian Benepe, Senior Vice President and Director of City...
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