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Roundhouse Interview with Urbanarium on urbanism
Housing Panel Dale McClanaghan and Jim O'Dea sits down with Kirk and Scot Hein from Urbanarium to look at urbanism and intelligent city building: Listen Here
In Memory of Bing Thom
The Urbanarium Society is deeply saddened by the loss of Bing Thom who was a tremendous talent, and a thoughtful voice, for Canada’s architecture and place making community. He has left a profound and lasting legacy for our country and region including such seminal local works as UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia, Surrey City Centre Library, Aberdeen
Archosophy 2: Unthinking the Mix
Unthinking the Mixed The term “mixed” has become synonymous with “good urbanism”. Yet, the term "mixed" is often not explored beyond the obvious. In town planning and architecture, “mixed” usually denotes two or more adjacent land-uses or modes of occupation that do not disrupt each other. It is adjacency rather than mixed as in forces being intermingled to create something new. The prosaic "mixed
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