Housing
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The bold, the fleeting, the beautiful
This isn’t your typical house slated for demolition. The lawn isn’t wildly overgrown, and the structure isn’t dilapidated. Instead, 91 Barton Ave. is...
By Trent Weston -
Why Housing Costs Are So High
[Editor’s Note: Patrick Condon is a well-respected voice on local planning issues and a contributor to Spacing Vancouver. Recently, he sat down with...
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Learning from Moses
The more things change the more they stay the same. – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1849 Robert Moses is a controversial figure in urban planning...
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City of Glassholes
City of GlassholesWorld Classholes dog eat downward dogcity of narrow shoulderscity of broad stereotypescity that ever sleepslong legs running off at the...
By Derek DeLand -
Book Review: Surviving Vancouver
“There’s a tranquil spot at Georgina Point on Mayne Island where I sat in 2021 and looked back across the Salish Sea to the mainland. It was a...
By Sean Ruthen -
Broadway Plan Shenanigans
Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra once said: “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” This is top of mind for...
By Erick Villagomez -
Broadway Plan Interactive Map
Information matters….and so does context. So, as the City of Vancouver embarks on four open houses related to the Broadway Plan over the next week...
By Erick Villagomez -
Op-Ed: Can green infrastructure thrive in high-density urban development?
Carolyn Whitzman is a senior research associate with the Canadian Urban Institute and Roy Brooke is the Executive Director of the Natural Assets...
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Millennial architects redefine Canadian dream of homeownership
Affordability, climate change, and thriving communal spaces are prevalent themes of mainstream policy talk amid Vancouver’s exacerbated housing...
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UCS #2: The Vancouver Stampede (Coming to a neighbourhood near you!)
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch.
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Op-Ed: Why is there so little rental construction?
This is an op-ed column by Jonathan Diamond, a principal at Well Grounded Real Estate Development in Toronto primarily consists of condos, with...
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LORINC: Major planning change for Toronto’s major streets
Though it normally seems as if the gears of Toronto’s planning machinery are barely moving, the reforms of the past four years add up to what will...
By John Lorinc