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Book Review – Planning Canada: A Case Study Approach
Editor: Ren Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2016) One of the easiest ways to learn something is by seeing how it was done before, somewhere else, with a similar context. We can understand abstract...
View ArticleMain Street Dartmouth: Practice test of suburban sprawl repair
DARTMOUTH – Turning extensive parking lots into vibrant and walkable communities has long become the new North American dream amongst urban planners and progressive municipal decision makers alike....
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Book Review: Citizen City
Edited by Robert Enright (Blueimprint Publishers, 2016) “The projects compiled in this book are the culmination of over 25 years of architectural experimentation, which stand firmly with the...
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Book Review: Wild By Design
Author: Margie Ruddick (Island Press, 2016) Wild By Design: Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes recounts the work of Margie Ruddick’s self-named firm over the last 20 years, by sorting a...
View ArticleDaylighting Sawmill River: New Hope
DARTMOUTH – After a long period of silence, discussion on daylighting Dartmouth’s Sawmill River is resurfacing. The Ecology Action Centre is hosting a public meeting at the Mic Mac Aquatic Club at 7:00...
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Canadian judge acknowledges anti-black racism in court
A Toronto judge has made history by explicitly considering anti-black racism as a mitigating factor in sentencing a young drug offender. Rather than receiving a year in jail as the Crown had wished...
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Book Review – Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
Authors: Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Reflecting on the history of humankind, one is hard-pressed to find a form of graphic representation more influential...
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Book Review: Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
Editors: Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley (Routledge, 2015) During the through the Depression and Post-War eras, two coalescing movements—women joining the work force, and the rise of modernism as...
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Book Review From The Stacks – The Miller|Hull Partnership: Public Works
“The Miller|Hull Partnership’s energy-conscious designs, love of local materials, and structural expressiveness helped define the essence of a new and exciting type of contemporary regionalism in...
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How to Build Safer Cities for LGBTQ Residents
For many marginalized groups, ‘public safety’ is never assumed. Recent debates on bathroom access for trans people, accounts of police brutality targeting sex workers, a seemingly endless string of...
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Spacing announces the 2016 recipients of the Jane Jacobs Prize
It is with great pleasure that Spacing announces that Leslie Chudovsky and Luke Anderson are the 2016 recipients of the Jane Jacobs Prize. The Jane Jacobs Prize is an annual award that celebrates...
View ArticleSaint John: Photos of an underappreciated city
SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK — Saint John, more than anything else, is an industrial port city. It is a city that faces challenges, but it is also a place of great potential and opportunity that has a lot...
View ArticleWhy Saving One House from Honda Demolition Matters
HALIFAX – Steele Auto Group has started the demolition of 19 homes to expand a Honda dealership in the core of the Halifax peninsula. Many residents may feel that the issue is a lost cause now that the...
View ArticleDodging the Centre Plan on Linden Lea?
DARTMOUTH – A contentious development proposal is going before Regional Council on Tuesday. Milestone Properties wants to demolish an old, three-storey, 12 unit apartment building on Linden Lea to...
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Uber and the Automated Car: A Slow Unveiling of our Transportation Future –...
Think for a second on the advances that have been made for personal transportation since the automobile overtook horse drawn carriages and bicycles, at the turn of the 20th century. You will be hard...
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Book Review: Downs House II
Edited by Christopher Macdonald, ORO Editions (2016) “Against the varied and positive nature of the houses depicted in this series, it is important to note the essentially fragile nature of their...
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Uber and the Automated Car: A Slow Unveiling of our Transportation Future –...
In Part One of Uber and the Automated Car we learned a brief overview of Uber’s model, and began to look at the sharing community and how this new and rapidly growing sector is taking over traditional...
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Book Review – Studio Futures: Changing Trajectories in Architectural Education
Editors: Donald Bates, Vivian Mitsogianni, Diego Ramirez-Lovering (ORO Editions, 2015) The design studio is a central part of the design education, particularly in the fields of architecture and urban...
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Complexity and Contradiction: The New TELUS Garden Building
[Editor’s Note: This article written by Spacing Vancouver Editor-in-Chief, Erick Villagomez, was recently published in the August edition of Canadian Architect and we extend our heartfelt gratitude to...
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Book Review: Manual of Section
Authors: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Drawings and different types of visual representation are an important part of the architectural design...
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