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Lessons From Copenhagen: Key Ingredients For A Successful Public Space
Copenhagen is often praised for its commitment to cycling and infrastructure. With 41% of all trips citywide done by cycling it is the Golden Standard Cycling City that many municipalities aspire to....
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BOOK REVIEW – Beautiful Users: Designing for People
Beautiful Users: Designing for People is the latest work by writer, curator, and designer Ellen Lupton, which explores the evolving relationship between designer and user through a discussion on...
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Finding our way by bike
This post by Natalie Corbo is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about the think tank, and the series, here. Google...
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Reclaiming Spaces/Places: Revealing a forgotten Indigenous visual narrative...
Reclaiming Spaces/Places is an ongoing series written by Lacey McRae Williams that shares stories of Indigenous resurgence through public art and planning across Canada, Turtle Island (North America)....
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Lessons on rekindling a regional romance: a visit to Hamilton reveals a...
A peculiar day-trip took citizens of Ontario’s capital on an exploration of the history and revitalisation of Southern Ontario’s other major urban centre. It’s Hamiltime and Emily Glazer has filed this...
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Use Modular Design To Foster Flexible and Incremental City Building
At Slow Streets we embrace a philosophy of quicker, lighter and cost effective infrastructure. We believe that this approach can yield the same results and quality. Practically speaking, this can be...
View ArticleUrbSanity: An Affordability Primer
It took a while to come but spring is officially here which also means construction season is already well under way. This time of year is marked by the sounds of new construction starting, whether it...
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Book Review From The Stacks: A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in...
“To observe the city’s architecture is to enter into the optimistic vision of its planners and designers and so to engage in the work-in-progress that is Vancouver. The city’s sense of...
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Visual Thoughts #54
Last VT image: Trout Lake Community Centre, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator, independent researcher and designer with...
View ArticleJane’s Walk 2015: 3 Walks in Ottawa
In a winter city like Ottawa, spring is a time for awakening and renewal. It’s also a great time to get out and explore the city on foot. For those purposes, the weather this past weekend could not...
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Rolling Youth into Toronto’s Bicycle Renaissance
This post by Jeffrey Trieu is part of Spacing‘s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think and Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Find out more about the think tank, and the series, here. With...
View ArticleImage of the Moment: Trillium line signage goes up
Image: OC Transpo O-Train Trillium Line Location: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Date of photo: May 1, 2015 Photographer: Kristen Gagnon As the O-Train prepares to amalgamate into the...
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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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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...
View ArticleDoors Open Ottawa 2015: A look at Ottawa’s Community Support Services
On June 6-7, 2015, the City of Ottawa marked its 14th annual Doors Open Ottawa event, a weekend celebrating the City’s built heritage and community services. Over 120 buildings from across the Ottawa...
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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...
View ArticleUrbSanity: Shhh!!! A loud vision for the Central Library
Last summer, following the 40th anniversary of the Ottawa Public Library Main Branch on Metcalfe, the Main Library Facility Planning report was released including three recommendations; renewal,...
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