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Event: reGENERATE Ideas Challenge – City of New Westminster REMINDER
Event Reminder! Registration closes soon Registration closes January 15, 2024 at 5:00pm PST Submission deadline is January 31, 2024 at 5:00pm PST The City of New Westminster is launching the...
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Book Review: The Painter Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray’s Villa E1027, and Le Cabanon
“From the end of the 1930s onwards, Le Corbusier tested the possibilities of mural painting to enliven architectural space. Following a first project in Vézelay in 1936, the walls of the Villa E1027...
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SALA Spring Event Series 2024
The UBC SALA James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments is hosting a series of events to explore the challenges and opportunities for local democracy both here in our region and beyond....
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Dense Confusion (Part 2) – On Affordability, Building Types, and Towers
Dense /dens/ (adjective) 1 marked by compactness or crowding together of parts 2 slow to understand: thickheaded Affordability is so damn complex. In my experience, those who say otherwise are either...
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Movie Reviews from an Urban Planning Perspective – Cars (2006)
Popular culture offers a glimpse into the context of its creator. In the film, repeat viewings reveal that one of the most important elements is the setting, without which the story might not have...
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Municipal Infrastructure Costs For Housing—Highs and Lows
Municipalities routinely make land-use decisions that can impact a community’s long-term livability and sustainability. These decisions can also have implications on local government costs and...
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Book Review: Hey Computer! Icons of Architecture Rebuilt by AI
We are currently experiencing a noetic turn, from a speech-based to a data-based civilization. In the historical analogue world, the relationship between things, words, and images were irreversible....
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Upzoning Shouldn’t Be Given for Free, Says Economist
Do landowners own the air space above their properties? “In the 1920s, property lawyers were puzzling over the aeronauts because air travel was just invented,” said Cameron Murray, an Australian...
View ArticleTHE FUTURE FIX: Vivre en Ville à Victoriaville
Spacing et Evergreen présentent ensemble une nouvelle série de podcast, Face au futur : des solutions pour les communautés du Canada, d’une côte à l’autre. CET ÉPISODE: Vivre en Ville à Victoriaville :...
View ArticleThe Future Fix: Dipping into water data
THIS EPISODE: Dipping Into Water Data We all know access to clean water is vital. We also know that water quality and access is jeopardized by things like pollution and drought. On the other hand, the...
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Can the City build needed housing while preserving local democracy?
Authors: Patrick Condon & Colleen Hardwick Vancouver’s success as a global city has spawned housing prices that rise farther and farther out of reach of city wage earners. Tied to that process has...
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Book Review – The Artful Plan: Architectural Drawing Reconfigured
Editors: Martin Søberg and Anna Hougaard (Birkhäuser, 2020) Architectural representations are more than just visual aids—they are the foundational blueprints for the built environment, embodying the...
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LORINC: National politics vs. local land use planning
The Liberal’s housing, infrastructure and communities minister Sean Fraser is by far the most entertaining politician on the national scene these days, what with his performatively insouciant policy...
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Noise: The Invisible Pollutant
By 2050, an estimated one million new individuals are expected to make their home in the Metro Vancouver area. This projected influx of new residents is in line with the UN’s prediction that 68% of...
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Seeing Consciousness
I walked into a room one day, and for a moment I could literally see the fierce neural blaze of consciousness in the people around me, and the shimmering flux of neuroelectricity radiating from their...
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