By Erick Villagomez
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Urban Cartoon Syndicate (UCS): Introduction and Call
Political cartooning has been a significant form of social and political commentary for centuries. It took off in the 18th century when artists like James...
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S101S – Understanding Shadow Studies: Why They Matter
Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing issues related to current urban planning and design. However, the relevance of shadow...
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Dense Confusion (Part 2) – On Affordability, Building Types, and Towers
Dense /dens/ (adjective) 1 marked by compactness or crowding together of parts 2 slow to understand: thickheaded Affordability is so damn complex. In my...
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Dense Confusion
Dense /dens/ (adjective) 1 marked by compactness or crowding together of parts 2 slow to understand: thickheaded The BC Government recently released its...
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S101S: Describing Building Types: Formal and Use-Types
What are formal building types and use-types, and why is this differentiation important to planning? With a broad background on building types and it’s...
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S101S – Describing Building Types: Why They Matter
Why is an understanding of building types important to urban planning and design? What aspects of planning are they connected to? Given that urban...
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S101S: Explaining Transit-Oriented Development: Benefits and Drawbacks
What is Transit-Oriented Development and what are its benefits and drawbacks? Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has become so common within urban...
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S101S—Understanding Residential Density: FSR, Building Setbacks and Height Regulations
What is Floor Space Ratio (FSR) and how does it interact with building setbacks and height regulations to create building forms and the ‘look and feel’ of...
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Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern
Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...
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Talking Landscape Architecture: An Interview with Marc Treib
Anne Whiston Spirn once described landscape as “...a language derived from the core activity of landscape architecture: artfully shaping, from...
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Ken Sim’s Swagger and the Language of Inequality
swagger noun plural swaggers : an arrogantly self-confident way of walking: an act or instance of swaggering : arrogant or conceitedly self-assured...
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S101S – Understanding Density: Net vs. Gross Density
What is the difference between “net” and “gross” density, and how do these relate to urban planning? In Understanding Residential...