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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: July 21 – 27
WHAT MAKES EDMONTON TICK? Edmonton visual arts festivals: A comprehensive review [The Wanderer] The Make Something Edmonton rope [Mastermaq.ca] The agony and the ecstasy of the West Edmonton Mall...
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Bike-in for Better Infrastructure
*Co-authored by Leslie Bush & Shannon LeBlanc On June 29, a group of citizens, going by the name of Strathcona Complete Streets, set up portable bicycle racks in Old Strathcona directly across from...
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New Merchandise: Hand-drawn Toronto postcard sets
Spacing has always used our merchandise as an important fundraising tool for the magazine — it helps to keep our ad content low, and editorial content high. Now we are teaming up with a number of...
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Converting Alleyways to Livable Laneways and Country Lanes
As a kid growing up in Vancouver, I spent a lot of time playing with neighbourhood kids in the alleyway outside our family home off Cambie Street. Most residential homes in Vancouver are backed by...
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Giant Island Press eBook sale on urbanism titles – $4.99, until Aug. 5th
Island Press is celebrating the summer with a giant eBook sale. This special sale includes more than 500 titles from three decades of publishing the best ideas and information in environmental studies,...
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New Merch Day 2: Toronto neighbourhood maps
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Cycling Think & Do Tank: Vienna & Berlin — A Tale of Two (Cycling) Cities
This post by Beth Savan, the Principal Investigator of the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank & is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out...
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Futuristic Skytran mass transit soon to be in Tel Aviv
Described by its developers as ‘the jetsons made into real life’, this innovative new system of personal rapid transit, designed by NASA and the private company Skytran, will make Tel Aviv the world’s...
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New Merch Day 3: Winnipeg architecture buttons
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Visual Thoughts #31
Last VT image: Building projection, Nob Hill, San Francisco. *** 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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50 Years of Sport: The Jasper Place Sports Centre
On August 10, 1963 the Jasper Place Sports Centre (9200 163 Street) opened in the former Town of Jasper Place to much fanfare. The grand opening included tours of the state-of-the-art facility, a...
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Interesting maps. Historical maps. BIG maps.
Introducing the BIG Map Blog. The curator (known only as the 59 kind) of the collection/blog, is an enthusiast of cartography and geographic information systems with the know-how to compile,...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: July 28 – Aug 3
HISTORY & HERITAGE July 29, 1969: City aims to preserve and restore slice of historic Strathcona [Edmonton Journal] Is there a future for an Old Strathcona mansion with a storied past? [Edmonton...
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Cities find new ways to use old infrastructure
What if your local telephone booth was also an electric vehicle charging station? Or construction scaffolding became a fun place to sit down and eat lunch? Or a roadside billboard became a lush,...
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Book Review – Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis: Opportunistic Architecture
Authors: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) The world of design is seemingly growing on a daily basis to (rightfully so) take into account all the...
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“Points”: The most advanced sign on earth
What if street signs knew where we wanted to go? What if they could even point us in the right direction? Brooklyn-based design agency, BREAKFAST, has somehow figured it out. In the past three years,...
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From urban billboard to affordable housing
In Canadian cities, mammoth-like, urban advertising billboards are a common fixture. However, they are as well in Belgium. We know, because a Belgian artist, Karl Philips, has reinvented the billboard...
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Edmonton’s urbanism headlines: August 4 – 10
EDMONTON CHARACTER Edmonton had to lose Gretzky in order to find itself [Metro Edmonton] Heritage Festival smashes attendance record [Edmonton Journal] Mystery mural pays tribute to late Folk Fest...
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TODERIAN: Six tips for City Hall leadership
In late September, the Council for Canadian Urbanism (or CanU), which I’ve been the President of since our official creation in 2009, will be holding our 5th annual Summit of leading Canadian...
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Space and Growth
Growth is largely considered to be a good thing; undoubtedly it’s better than shrinking. Detroit was once a city of 1.8 million; today it’s a bankrupt city of 700,000. If you have the choice,...
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