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Book Review – Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting to People, Nature,...
Author: Sim Van Der Ryn (Island Press, 2013) I consider myself an empathic person; someone who spends his time worrying about the welfare of others, those I haven’t met, those who don’t exist on this...
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Book Review – Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design
Author: Kathryn Moore (Routledge, 2010) In my educational experience, there has been no exercise more stimulating, frustrating, and downright mystifying than trying to learn design. Compounded by...
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What’s in a City Flag?
A group of local creatives (progress unlimited, Foolscap Studio, Drawing Room, MADE, Spacing Edmonton, and 1650 collective) have collaborated with Aurora Flags on a citywide design challenge to express...
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The Edmonton Streetcar and Its Urban Form: Part 1
Jasper Avenue, Whyte Avenue, 124th Street, Alberta Avenue, 95th Street, 97th Street, 109th Street. What do all of these streets share in common? The quick answer is their likely inclusion in most...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: February 10 – 16
Happy Valentine’s Day! Enjoy these planning love v-day cards! [Planning Love] INFRASTRUCTURE Ottawa launches $14-billion infrastructure fund [Globe and Mail] Aging Misericordia Hospital falling apart,...
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Book Review – Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
Authors: Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002) In his 1952 novel East of Eden, John Steinbeck took on an argument for the inherent struggle of man to do good...
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Edmonton’s Lost Chinese Market Gardens
If you visit the City of Edmonton Archives, a search for “market gardens” in the Henderson’s City Directory for 1932, turns up several Chinese names at addresses near the banks of the North...
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This Is Edmonton: Neon Sign Museum
Edmonton’s unique Neon Sign Museum was launched on Friday evening, the culmination of years of work by City of Edmonton Heritage Planners, as well as assiduous volunteer efforts by members of the...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: February 17 – 23
DOWNTOWN IN LIGHTS The lights are on at Edmonton’s outdoor Neon Sign Museum [mastermaq.ca] Mouallem: ‘LED will never touch neon in its pure form’ [Metro Edmonton] Design students branch out with...
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It’s time to quit hating on pedways
Pedways have been built in cities around the world for the same reason: weather. Most, in places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei, remove people from heat, humidity or rain. In Edmonton, where our...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: February 24 – March 2
MEGA PROJECTS Downtown Edmonton arena to begin construction March 3 [Metro News] The Downtown Arena Project – A Consultation Timeline [DECL] Council needs to see business case for $1-billion Galleria...
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Twelve Ways We Can Make Our Cities More Child-Friendly
For far too long, many people have considered family life and urban life as being mutually exclusive. That trend is slowly reversing, as more and more parents choose to raise their kids in urban...
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Book Review – The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As it Is, As It...
Author: J.B. Mackinnon (Random House, 2013) I was instantaneously drawn to this book for no other reason than the title. I had not read the 100 Mile Diet (Mackinnon’s previous well received work) and...
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Design and the City: The LRT and the ‘Flying E’
What contributes to the image of a city? Is it the rich manufacturing heritage on 104th Street? The vibrancy of Old Strathcona? I can tell you what doesn’t. The iconography of Edmonton Transit System’s...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: March 3 – 8
STATE OF THE CITY, STATE OF THE PROVINCE Speech from the throne: Premier wants to repair relations with Alberta’s big cities [Edmonton Journal] Alberta budget to include “firm, long-term” transit...
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Book Review – Sun Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies (3rd Edition)
Authors: G. Z. Brown, Mark DeKay (Wiley, 2014) As the complexity of buildings has increased over the past decades, issues around energy-conscious architecture and urbanism have turned to focus...
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Spacing the new steward of the Jane Jacobs Prize; 2014 winners announced...
It is with great pleasure that Avana Capital Corporation and Spacing announce that the magazine will be the new steward of the Jane Jacobs Prize. Since 1997, Avana, through Ideas That Matter, has...
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Edmonton urbanism headlines: March 9 – 16
TRANSPORT Southeast LRT on track after province promises to fill $600 million funding gap (with video) [Edmonton Journal] Councillor Bryan Anderson says that Scona Road’s speed limit is too low and a...
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Retail Spaces Sell Cities
Most denizens, visitors and armchair urbanists casually acquainted with the works of Jane Jacobs would agree that the City of Champions suffers from a genuine dearth of shopping districts. Apart from...
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Q&A with the cake artist behind Spacing’s 10th anniversary cover
Sarah Fortunato is a pastry artist living and working in Toronto. After receiving a Fine Arts education at the Ontario College of Art and Design, Fortunato discovered a passion for pastry and...
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