Urban Design
Writing Vancouver: ‘Starting Over’ – A Personal Memoir in Search of the Future – Part 1
By grahammcgarva
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing Vancouver is excited to kick off this 3-Part poetic memoir by Graham McGarva. As founder of Baker... Read More
EVENT: VCPC’s 2020 Year-in-Review: A discussion of milestones that transformed Vancouver
By Vancouver City Planning Commission
2020 will be remembered as a transformative year around the world. How did it change Vancouver? For the sixth year, the Vancouver City... Read More
LORINC: Raising the stakes in the MZO wars
By John Lorinc
The judge who handed down a temporary injunction last week, halting the demolition of the historic Dominion Foundry in the West... Read More
OP-ED: YongeTOmorrow is an opportunity not to be missed
By Yonge TOmorrow
This is an op-ed by from YongeTOmorrow and co-signers Richard Florida, Rana Florida, Ken Greenberg, Dr. Robin Mazumder, Brent... Read More
How Much of Vancouver Is Even Left to Plan?
By scothein
Atop this article is a “Five-minute City” drawing I made in 2007 as Vancouver’s senior urban designer when my team was asked to scope... Read More
When it comes to parking minimums, less is more
By Lyndsey Rolheiser
Is parking policy in Toronto finally going to be meaningfully reformed? On January 5th, the City of Toronto released a “Report for... Read More
LORINC: The never-ending war between Queen’s Park and City Hall
By John Lorinc
There could have scarcely been a more succinct visual metaphor for the chronically dysfunctional relationship between City Hall and... Read More
Housing, Like Beer, Is Better Done in Small Batches
By scothein
Forty years ago, Molson, Labatt, and Carling O’Keefe collectively owned 96 percent of Canada’s beer market. Their shared monopoly... Read More
Event – Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci, Jan. 24
By Spacing
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci Online Panel Discussion Presented by the West Coast Modern League in Partnership with the West... Read More
LORINC: Yonge Street’s new mission
By John Lorinc
It sometimes seems as if the ‘whither-Yonge Street’ question has been loitering on the edges of our civic debates ever since the... Read More