By Brendan Hurley
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Monster Home: A Connective Community Approach to Single Family Housing Districts
There is no question that Vancouver is a densifying city. Despite all the excitement and acrimony that comes with that prospective change, the majority of...
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Halloween For Planning Nerds: CANDY DENSITY
Halloween is an Urbanist Holiday (shhh don’t tell anybody) Halloween as a Holiday – more than any other – is about neighbourhood. It is a holiday that...
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Park(ING) Day 2013 in Vancouver
It’s international Park(ing) Day around the world. September 20th is a day where artists, designers and citizens formally and informally transform...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Weekend
LOCAL • Note to Vancouver Art Gallery: Consider staying put [Globe & Mail] • Vancouver street-food program expands with 15 new carts [Straight] • BMO...
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Robson Chronicles: The Structure of Downtown – Visions for a Complete and Vital Street
[Editors Note: Robson is a diverse and dynamic street that holds power in defining Vancouver. In 2008 associate-editor of SpacingVancouver and local urban...
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2012 InReview: UnVisioning the Viaducts
As 2012 comes to a closes and our Spacing Vancouver contributors take a well deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity to look back of what...
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More than charity: Hope for change this Christmas
Christmas can be a dreary time for some in Vancouver. It seems to be constantly dark and gray, and almost invariably wet. The holidays are a time of...
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CityStudio Blasting Off
Friday night was the CityStudio Holiday Blast. Held at the Wise Hall off the Drive, the event was a celebration of the first year of the Studio’s...
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Guillermo Penalosa: People Moving Cities: Part II
Guillermo Penalosa is considered one of the premier voices on the vitalizing nature of human powered transportation and public spaces in Cities. He is the...
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Expressing Crossings
“I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.” This little call for cultural tolerance...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. BC Ferries has appealed their Land Assessment for the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal...
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Guillermo Penalosa: People Moving Cities: Part I
Guillermo Penalosa is considered one of the premier voices on the vitalizing nature of human powered transportation and public spaces in Cities. He is...