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Like it or not, we're shaped by culture, and culture is shaped by environment, manmade or otherwise.

We've become a mechanized world. Much of how we see our environment, how we experience our environment and even, how we've come to structure our environment is tempered by transportation, or in a more pure form, motion. We are truly a people in motion.

On the flipside, we shape our environment, that same environment that is going to shape us. Those inventions that man has produced that bring us from Point A to Point B - physically or otherwise - have grown on us. Our dependence on transportation has grown to a point where this many people living on this planet would be hard pressed to so without transportation, or motion of some sort. Some might even go so far as to claim that our transportation devices have become so integral to our being, that they are like an outfit of clothing.

That juncture between architecture, urban design and transportation is the focus of our articles.

See the presentation about William Bryce Mundie: The Unsung Father of the Skyscraper for the University of Manitoba.

So, don't just sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. Read on, and engage in some critical thinking…