By Don Schuetze
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Pop-up parks: Surrey Central goes gingham
They’re popping up all over the place! Cities across North America, and perhaps further afield, are creating temporary spaces for citizens to sit...
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Employment Insurance Beneficiaries South of the Fraser Compared to the Other Side
There is reputation, and then there are the facts. Here are the numbers of Employment Insurance beneficiaries from traders insurance and Stats B.C....
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Imagine Surrey: Four Speakers Look at the New Downtown Centre
Imagine Surrey was held March 2 at Surrey’s City Centre library. There were four speakers, plus community displays and even an opportunity to help...
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2012 InReview: The vague terrain of art in the generic city
While our Spacing Vancouver contributors continue their well-deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity highlight some of our most popular...
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Where are all the commercial vehicles? Surrey.
According to the most recent statistics come from B.C. Stats (via ICBC), Surrey has more licensed commercial vehicles than Vancouver. It looks like...
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More building permits given out South of the Fraser
Economic confidence > A comparison of building permits issued throughout the GVRD from 1998-2011 It’s not really a race, and it’s hard to...
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The vague terrain of art in the generic city
The same day Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image closed at the Surrey Art Gallery, Artswest had an exhibition in the new Surrey Library...
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Lightmodal: public art that isn’t so public
Here’s art with no vision, goals, and of a doubtful legacy. I stole those headings from the Necklace Project website (www.necklaceproject.ca/)...
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An urban screen opening in Surrey
I walked by the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre in Surrey on Friday, December 2 at 5:50 pm. It was still early, but in winter, when the sun sets at around...
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Greenways in Surrey: a look at Quibble Creek
Greenways are still rather new in city planning. The term was coined in 1995, and the idea of planning urban pathways that don’t pander to the...
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“This is my favourite street in Surrey”
“This is my favourite street in Surrey,” my wife said as we turned onto Central Parkway, the street the Surrey Central Skytrain station is on...