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What Rob Ford can teach us about populism in Canada & some strategies to...
EDITOR: We’re pleased to publish this guest post by Frank Cunningham, an emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at University of Toronto. To download a PDF of this article, go here....
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 21 – 27
HERITAGE & CULTURE 100 years of Calder [Edmonton City as Museum] Purple City: an Edmonton tradition [Edmonton City As Museum] Edmonton historic downtown house to move aside while condo tower goes...
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Bangor, Maine — Beyond the outlet stores & how a small-sized city is nudging...
Travelling up the I-95… It was a sweltering Saturday, late morning. I was sitting in a deli in downtown Bangor, and while downtown was not exactly bustling, there were people out and about – on a day...
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Book Review – Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Author: Timothy Beatley (Island Press, 2014) Humanity has an intrinsic sense of what our urban world entails. When we hear the word urbanism, we think of infrastructure. Concrete. Glass. Roads. Parks....
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Discovering Victoria’s vital human infrastructure
Author’s Note: Earlier this month, Modacity were invited by the Greater Victoria Cycling Coalition to kick off their brand new Trans-Form Speaker Series. So our family packed up our panniers, and made...
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Today in History: Black Friday, Tornado ’87
27 years ago, Edmonton was struck by a F4 tornado that killed 27 people, injured over 300, and caused more than $332.27 million in damage. Inspired by the overwhelming community response to the...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 28 – Aug 3
YEG CULTURE Edmonton’s Top 10 Neighbourhoods for 2014 [Avenue Edmonton] Little parklet memorial brings international activism to Edmonton [Edmonton Journal] Simons: Heritage Festival offers the best of...
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Vision Realized: Isaak Kornelsen Memorial Parklet
Just over one year after Jonathan Behnke developed a vision for a parklet to memorialize former classmate, Isaak Kornelsen, his vision is becoming a reality. Isaak was a University of Alberta student...
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Book Review – Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices For A Multimodal Future
Editors: John L. Renne and Billy Fields (Island Press 2013) Transport Beyond Oil: Policy Choices For A Multimodal Future, edited by John Renne and Billy Fields, is a collection of papers themed on...
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Le Bois Angell: un écosystème d’humains
La communauté des chiens Si vous entrez dans le bois Angell — une forêt de 80 ha, en banlieue ouest de Montréal — vous croirez peut-être qu’une meute de loups vous entoure. Chaque jour, des dizaines...
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Visual Thoughts #43
Last VT image: View to Smoke Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer with...
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City and Campus
Academic institutions have an interesting relationship with cities. While campuses across the country strive to develop a nurturing bastion from external forces, the spin-off effects are well known and...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: July 13 – 20
DOWNTOWN Take the Downtown Perception Survey and help drive the direction for its future improvement! [Downtown Business Association] Staples: Banning smoking at public square sends out an unfriendly...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Aug 4 – 10
DEVELOPMENT City hall expects $3B bill for new Edmonton neighbourhoods, makes plans for more infill housing [Edmonton Journal] Inspiration for Edmonton’s Blatchford is more village than “Futurama”...
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Book Review: How to Study Public Life
Authors: Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre (Island Press, 2013) Those versed in research around public life and urban spaces are bound to know the name, Jan Gehl. As the founding partner of well-known Gehl...
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13 ways to create baby-friendly cities
Since having a baby, I have been experiencing my city through a new lens. Before parenthood, I could move through the city relatively freely on my own schedule, with my two feet to move me around. Now...
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An Inhabitable Space
Nested in a small industrial district just south of Whyte Ave, Mike Lam‘s industrial design studio embodies a remarkable supply of tools and machinery, seemingly enough to make any industrial...
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Edmonton’s Urbanism Headlines: Aug 11 – 17
URBAN DEVELOPMENT Community leagues want not-for-profit developer: Such agencies build infill on problem sites [Edmonton Journal] Edmonton city councillor floats higher taxes for vacant and derelict...
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Book Review – Next-Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial...
Next-Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works – (Island Press, 2014) Synergy. A simple word that is commonly used in the world today. A world that keeps us to overcome...
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Five Key Questions for the Study of Public Life
Although studies on the interaction between public life and public space are relatively few, several great examples do exist. From Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and Jane Jacobs’ The Death...
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