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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Erick Villagomez

  • Visual Thoughts #64

    Last VT image: Highway underpass – Coquitlam, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...

  • Visual Thoughts #63

    Last VT image: Homes at Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site in Steveston, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing...

  • Visual Thoughts #62

    Last VT image: Alice Lake – Squamish, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...

  • Visual Thoughts #61

    Last VT image: Idiosyncratic attic window in Strathcona, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also...

  • EVENT: Shaping Vancouver 2017, Conversation #1, March 23rd

    Shaping Vancouver 2017:ReShaping Conversations on Heritage Conversation #1: The Future of Heritage in Vancouver- What the New Thematic Framework Means for...

  • Cartographically Speaking: The Politics of Flight

    Click here for a larger image. We tend to think of cities in their horizontal dimension—artifacts the spread laterally across the landscape. This is...

  • Visual Thoughts #60

    Last VT image: Snowy intersection in East Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...

  • Visual Thoughts #59

    Last VT image: Building on Terminal Avenue, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...

  • Industrial Magic

    What should we do with urban industrial lands? Many that live within rapidly growing cities may argue that this question is extremely dated. Irrelevant...

  • Vancouver Neighbourhood Population Change, 1971-2006

    Cities are constantly transforming. Although we often focus on the most visible signs of change—new buildings and reconstructed public spaces, for...

  • EVENTS: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11, 2016

    Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a...

  • Vancouver Art Gallery Reflections

    I’m not sure when the informed, intelligent culture of design that characterized the formative years of Vancouver transformed, but Herzog And De Meuron’s...