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Book 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...
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La 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...
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Book 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...
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Accidental 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...
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Cartographically 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...
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Book 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...
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Book 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...
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SPACING: 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.,...
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Book 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,...
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Porch 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...
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Book 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...
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Visual 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...
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Cost 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...
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Book 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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Book Review – City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis
Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb (n+1 / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015) When people write about their city it is frequently an opinion piece for a local newspaper and, more often than not,...
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Rethinking Brossard’s Panama Hub
Each year, Dr. Pierre Gauthier, a professor in Concordia’s Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, gives his Advanced Urban Laboratory students the same challenge: rethink a downtrodden...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design
Author: Avi Friedman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) Avi Friedman is an architecture professor at McGill University who has been researching narrow dwellings since the 1990s, and sharing his...
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McAdam, New Brunswick and the struggle of small communities
Many small towns, communities, and rural areas face challenges with the decline of traditional industries such as forestry. Often, economic development arguments are less about “growth” than about...
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This Tiny Abandoned Church Perfectly Captures Villeray’s Changing Past
The neighbourhood of Villeray is characterized by a “time-capsule” hodgepodge of 1950s signage, multicultural supermarkets, boarded-up windows and cozy neighbourhood bars, as well as the abandoned...
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Book Review From the Stacks – Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design...
These days it has become nearly impossible to open a newspaper or read a website without encountering numerous doomsday predictions of our bleak-looking future. Seven Rules for Sustainable...
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