By Erick Villagomez
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Where are the kids? – Children three to five years old
The last map we looked at a couple of weeks ago, discussed the pattern of distribution of children under three years old. In keeping with the data...
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Where are the kids? – Children under three years old
We’ll take a break from the Kingsway theme in Cartographically Speaking and start introducing these on a more casual basis. Let’s jump to a different...
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Kingsway: Building footprint figure-ground
Kingsway is one of the most significant streets in Metro Vancouver. With its rich history that pre-dates European arrival and its unique diagonal urban...
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Office Space
By Erick Villagomez, re:place magazine Places of work are as important to the proper functioning of cities as places of dwelling, playing, and gathering...
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The future of urban planning is open source
By Erick Villagomez, re:place magazine Cities, by their very nature, are always in a state of change. Responding to the myriad of internal and external...
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Vancouver’s solar neighbourhoods
Although there is a lot of international praise for Vancouver urban design excellence, it is often focused on the events within the past three decades...
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How we get to work – transit, biking and walking in Metro Vancouver
What better way to start off 2009 than with another map. Given how the unexpected snowy weather seemed to paralyze this fine city of ours over the...
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Vancouver’s north-south streets
As a follow-up to the last map depicting Vancouver’s east-west running streets, here is a drawing of all the north-south roads in the city. Very similar...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 5: Epilogue
Locally, the public is constantly bombarded by politicians and municipal officials who state that they are doing everything within their means to tackle...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 4: Affordability in Vancouver
So far in this series, I’ve discussed affordability and its relationship to population diversity as well as the complex interaction between the...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 3: Affordability and Environment
One of Vancouver’s greatest attributes is the environment in which it sits. The beauty and splendour of the mountains and ocean that are so intricately...
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The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 2: Affordability and Diversity
Diversity plays an important role in most, if not all, complex systems. Accordingly, it is a term used in a broad spectrum of professions and areas of...