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The Overhead: Breaking the addiction to high home values
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The Overhead: Breaking the addiction to high home values
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Breaking the addiction to high home values We’re all used to headlines about impossibly soaring housing prices in ...
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The Overhead: Fixing the housing market
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The Overhead: Fixing the housing market
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Fixing the housing market The housing market is one everyone’s minds these days. It determines who can live where,...
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
Written by Daniel Kaven, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022 In the weeks leading up to my 40th birthday, I took an epic road trip. I drove east from Los Angeles through the desert highways, pueblos, and truck stops of my childhood in search of an understanding of the western architecture that I have always ...
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
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Book Review: Architecture of Normal – The Colonization of the American Landscape
Written by Daniel Kaven, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022 In the weeks leading up to my 40th birthday, I took an epic road trip. I drove east from Los Angeles through the desert highways, pueblos, and truck stops of my childhood in search of an understanding of the western architecture that I have always ...
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
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I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or heat. Instead, it’s wet and grey and still a bit chilly, putting a damper on outdoor activity just as the weather starts to get warmer […] Th...
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or heat. Instead, it’s wet and grey and still a bit chilly, putting a damper on outdoor activity just as the weather starts to get warmer […] Th...
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
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NEW ISSUE: Rain
I’ll place a bet that you cursed rain sometime this season. Spring is rainy, but it’s not yet warm enough for the rain to be a relief from drought or heat. Instead, it’s wet and grey and still a bit chilly, putting a damper on outdoor activity just as the weather starts to get warmer […] Th...
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Written by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro, Rizzoli Books, 2021 This book presents the work and imaginings of this iconic architect in an accessible and compelling form, including color photographs, drawings, quotations from his writings, as well as newly commissioned diagrams and thoughtful...
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
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Book Review: 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
Written by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro, Rizzoli Books, 2021 This book presents the work and imaginings of this iconic architect in an accessible and compelling form, including color photographs, drawings, quotations from his writings, as well as newly commissioned diagrams and thoughtful...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
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The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Non-market housing solutions For many housing advocates, part of the solution to providing affordable housing is removin...
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The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
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The Overhead: Non-market housing solutions
Spacing and the Balanced Supply of Housing research node proudly present The Overhead: Understanding Canada’s Affordable Housing Crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Non-market housing solutions For many housing advocates, part of the solution to providing affordable housing is removin...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
Why we must stop the ‘urbicide’ — the killing of cities
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The 21st century was supposed to be the “century of the city.” As of 2007, 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and the United Nations has estimated that by 2050, that figure will rise to 75%. As I write this, I am in the midst of days of doom-scrolling news of the bombing […] The...
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Why we must stop the ‘urbicide’ — the killing of cities
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Why we must stop the ‘urbicide’ — the killing of cities
The 21st century was supposed to be the “century of the city.” As of 2007, 50% of the world’s population lives in cities, and the United Nations has estimated that by 2050, that figure will rise to 75%. As I write this, I am in the midst of days of doom-scrolling news of the bombing […] The...
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Book Review: The Women Who Changed Architecture
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Foreword by Beverly Willis, Introduction by Amale Andraos, Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022  The Women Who Changed Architecture establishes a comprehensive and encyclopedic record of pioneering women in architecture, from 1881 to 2021. Although presenting an unp...
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Book Review | The City is Not A Computer
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Book Review | The City is Not A Computer
Author: Shannon Mattern (Princeton University Press, 2021) As we know, the world is in the thick of a data explosion that is affecting all facets of society and all disciplines. Urban planning and design are no exception. For several years now, a growing number of advocates, caught up in our tech...
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