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Notes from Italy
“To make this course of action clear to my French readers, I must explain that in Italy, a country very far away from us, people are still driven to despair by love.” Stendahl Stendahl Syndrome can be...
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Book Review – Rethinking A Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Author: Eran Ben-Joseph (MIT Press, 2015) Surface parking lots are ever-present in the contemporary city. Moovelab’s incredible visualization project What the Street!? that inventoried parking lots in...
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Women Mobility Survey and #UrbanDesign4Women Twitter Chat
RELEASE: Slow Streets Have you ever wondered if our city streets, mobility networks, and public spaces could be redesigned to enhance the well-being and safety of women and girls? Slow Streets would...
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Book Review – The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Author: Stefan Al (The MIT Press, 2017) The first time I visited Las Vegas, I was quickly taken aback at the structures. I’d just returned home a week earlier from a trip to the Atacama desert in...
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Book Review – Destination Architecture
Author: Phaidon Editors (Phaidon Press, 2017) The global perspective provided by this portable book makes it the ideal companion for all travelers who love architecture. It includes work from...
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Hidden Intelligence: Preserving Historic Settlement Patterns
Humanity’s collective drive towards urbanization within the past century has gone hand-in-hand with the mindless erasure and destruction of past urban environments. Historic preservation of...
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Book Review: The Sagrada Familia
Author: Gijs van Hensbergen (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) Giljs van Hensbergen has pulled off a remarkable feat, taming the monstre sacré of twentieth-century architecture without diminishing him. He takes...
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Book Review: Infinite Suburbia
Editors: Alan M. Berger, Joel Kotkin with Celina Balderas Guzman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017) According to Queens University’s David Gordon, approximately 70% of Canadians live in...
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Book Review – Redesigning Gridded Cities: Key Examples
Author: Joan Busquets with Pablo Perez-Ramos, Nikos Katsikis, Christina Crawford, Dingliang Yang (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2016) Former MIT Professor of the renowned Theory of City Form...
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The City of Illusions – Part 1
The distribution of wealth and the shape and form of cities are intimately related. As such, Thomas Picketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty First Century has as much to say about cities and...
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The Future Fix: Mapping Arctic Sea Ice
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Mapping Arctic Sea Ice Not all technology has to be disruptive, it...
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Tools to address the affordable housing crisis facing Canada
In 2019, Canada adopted the National Housing Strategy Act, which commits all governments in Canada to “progressive realization of the right to adequate housing,” with an emphasis on “improving housing...
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Mackenzie Place: The tallest residential building in Canada’s North
EDITOR’S NOTE: In Spacing #29/2013, photographer Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell wrote about MacKenzie Place, the tallest residential building in Canada north of the 60th parallel....
View ArticleThe Future Fix: Smart Cities, Reconsidered
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Cities, Reconsidered The term “Smart Cities” has been...
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Book Review: Building With Paper – Architecture and Construction
Edited by Ulrich Knaack, Rebecca Bach, and Samuel Schabel – Berkhauser Verlag, 2023 To identify industrial solutions in the building industry, missing basics such as material parameters must be worked...
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News from Calgary and Banff
This past month in Calgary, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada held its first in-person conference since 2019, showcasing the recent opening of several new buildings in and around the...
View ArticleThe Overhead: Evictions
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Evictions Evictions can...
View ArticleThe Overhead: The Financialization of a Housing Crisis
THIS EPISODE: The Financialization of a Housing Crisis The days of the “mom-and-pop” landlord are largely behind us. Now, housing units are being snapped up or developed by large corporate entities and...
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Book Review: Exploring Vancouver – Ten Tours of the City and its Buildings
Written by Harold Kalman & Robin Ward, Fifth Edition (Harbour Publishing, 2023) This fifth edition of Exploring Vancouver brings the city’s architectural and social story entirely up to date. Ten...
View ArticleThe Overhead: Community Land Trusts
THIS EPISODE: Community Land Trusts Last season, we talked to a group of people from the Kensington Market Community Land Trust (KMCLT) in Toronto as part of a range of options for non-market housing....
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