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Photo du jour: Démolition de l’Omnipac
L’usine Omnipac située au 6240 Van Horne fabriquait des boîtes de carton. L’immeuble de brique était laissé à l’abandon depuis plusieurs années par son propriétaire. Sans fenêtres, le lieu était à la...
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All the Montreal Metro Buttons at Expozine
Calling all Parc station amateurs, Fabre design aficionados, Jarry loyalists,Lavallois and Longueillois, la clique de l’Université de Montréal: for the first time, we will be offering the complete set...
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Book Review – Le Corbusier Redrawn: The Houses
Author: SooJin (Steven) Park (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) Le Corbusier needs no introduction in the architecture and urban planning circles. As a person who many consider a master of modern...
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12 simple ways Auckland gets walking right
We at Modacity recently spent five days in the beautiful city of Auckland, New Zealand, having been invited by Auckland Council to share some lessons from Vancouver’s recent implementation of an AAA...
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When the Numbers Don’t Add up: The Need to Study Comprehensive Transportation...
Many of Canada’s major regional municipalities are expected to grow significantly over the coming decades. Among the myriad of challenges to be faced by professionals and authorities will be how to...
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Book Review From The Stacks – (re)Designing Nature: Current Concepts for...
Authors: Susanne Witzgall, Florian Matzner, and Iris Meder (Hatje Cantz, 2011) The relationship between nature and the the built world has changed dramatically over the ages. In fact, the rise of...
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Is Uber part of the Sharing Economy?
For years now, long term changes in consumer priorities, coupled with the global economic downturn, have driven many innovators to test new business models which focus less on ownership and disposable...
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Book Review: Derrida for Architects
Even the most prosaic oppositions of architecture can be cast in terms that indicate something is really at stake. This is Derrida for architects. There is always something at issue, and the stakes...
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Reclaiming neighbourhood planning
A Community Planning Board (CPB) can be an effective democratic platform to support meaningful citizen engagement and push forth social justice and equity in planning. While neighbourhood associations...
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La voiture en libre-service ne va pas tuer le taxi, mais elle va peut-être...
« Il faut évaluer l’impact sur l’industrie du taxi ». Pour le maire Denis Coderre, qui a l’industrie du taxi particulièrement à coeur, cette phrase agit comme un leitmotiv pour justifier le report de...
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Book Review – Creative Block: Advice and Projects from 50 Successful Artists
Author: Daniella Krysa (Chronicle Books, 2014) Creative Block took me a while to read. Not because it was difficult or heavy or even long. It took me a while to read it because every time I finished...
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Household waste in urban space
You may have heard that Edmonton’s downtown and central neighbourhoods are experiencing a renaissance; new growth is occurring in both population and development. What hasn’t changed is Edmonton’s...
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Book Review – Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand
Author: Simon Unwin (Routledge, 2010) At a time when meaningful analyses of the built environment seems to be suffering from extreme attrition, Simon Unwin’s Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should...
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Travelogue: CityLab 2014
Recently, Los Angeles became the subject of much attention as the civically-minded flocked to the city to take part in this year’s CityLab conference. CityLab is a symposium for over 300 of the...
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Patrimoine montréalais : les pertes de 2014
L’église Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix en cour de démolition. Source : Guillaume St-Jean L’année 2014 touchant à sa fin, l’heure est au bilan. Pour une deuxième année consécutive, voici un inventaire,...
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The Building Blocks of Bike Culture: Social Engagement and Promotional...
When it comes to building a bike culture, we here in Canada often look upon the “live-work velodromes” of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and the like with considerable envy. So well ingrained are the quirky...
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New Slow City: Living Simply in the World’s Fastest City
Author: William Powers (New World Library, 2014) Every once and a while I get handed a book that changes my perspective on some of the ways I do things in my day to day life. In New Slow City, William...
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Book Review: The Bohemian Guide to Urban Cycling
Author: Sean Benesh (Urban Loft Publishers, 2014) Urban cycling is not a new concept in many Canadian cities. It seems like at any particular point in time, there is a debate happening on bike-related...
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Visual Thoughts #48
Last VT image: Small building, Deception Pass State Park, Washington, US. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and...
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Book Reviews From the Stacks – Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettres
“Known for his modern architecture, numbering fewer than sixty buildings, Charles Edouard Jeanneret/Le Corbusier (1887-1965) also wrote some fifty or so books during his lifetime, hundreds of...
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