From the urbanists at Spacing Magazine, blog, etc. comes an urban ideas competition for individuals and groups no older than 35:
thinkTORONTO invites people 35 years old or younger with creative ideas on how to improve Toronto’s public spaces. The competition will help celebrate the magazine’s 5th anniversary in December 2008. Architects, urban planners, landscape architects, […]
North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it
The city of 4,500 residents has demanded that Google Maps remove images of North Oaks homes from the website’s Street View feature, where any Internet user can glimpse a home from the nearest road.North Oaks’ unique situation, in which the roads are privately owned by […]
Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 1072 pp.
Space & Culture has previously posted on this book, Latour, democracy and the public.This is our second review of this tome: See Tonya Davidson’s review in issue 9.3.
Is a politics of things essential to public life today? […]
The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière, trans. Steve Corcoran. London: Verso, 2006, 106 pp.
In The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière polemically addresses what he views to be a widespread trend of anti-individualism in the past and present canons of social, political, and philosophical thought. Crucially for Rancière, this trend of anti-individualism is part of […]
When we cyclists leave it to urban planners to determine where in the city we should and shouldn’t ride our bikes we tend to find ourselves mingling uncomfortably with SUVs, pedestrians, not-so-efficient-routes, and dead-ends. How often, here in Edmonton for example, has the “bike lane” I’ve so naively pursued stopped short, sending me headlong into […]