History

Video Vancouver: Construction of the George Massey Tunnel 1957-59

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Via BC History The film was originally called Deas Island Tunnel and is about the construction of the tunnel under the Fraser between... Read More

Virtual Talk – Day of Audio Visual Heritage, Oct 27th

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Virtual Talk – Day of Audio Visual Heritage Date: Oct, 27th at 5pmAdmission: Sign up for free via Eventbrite The United Nations... Read More

Event: AFTERSHOCK – Looking back at 1918 for a view of Vancouver’s future

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Event Details Date: October 27, 2020 Time: 7:00-8:30-pm Via: Zoom RSVP and more information Event Description The first victim in... Read More

Book Review: Planning on the Edge

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Editors: Penny Gurstein and Tom Hutton (UBC Press, 2019) Planning On The Edge: Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconciliation, Social... Read More

Book Review – Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future

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Author: Kirkpatrick Sale (Chelsea Green, 2017) Reading Human Scale Revisited by Kirkpatrick Sale from Athens, Greece during a global... Read More

Bentham’s City: An Urban Monograph of Vancouver City Hall

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[Editor’s Note: This piece was published over a decade ago—in what would eventually become Spacing Vancouver. In light of the... Read More

Six-foot City: Conclusion

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This series has explored the impacts of doubling the current personal space radius from 3ft (1m) to 6ft (2m) across three everyday... Read More

Six-foot City: Public Transit

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Anybody who has experienced a well-used public transit system during rush hour knows that relaxing their ‘personal space bubbles’ to a... Read More

Six-foot City: The Corridor

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The lowly corridor falls well short of being adored by most people. Within our contemporary cultural imagination, its association with... Read More

Six-Foot City: Introduction

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Although the recent pandemic has brought to light many important issues, none has been more pervasive than social distancing. Embedded... Read More