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  • Release: CityStudio Students Attend to Vancouver Orphaned Spaces

    The City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) announced today that students from CityStudio have undertaken work on an innovative...

  • Find the Plaques to Make History

    Guest Feature by Michael Klassen There’s evidence that our community connections are made more tenuous by modern urban living. There was a time when...

  • May 4, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Neighbourhood bully harms Downtown Eastside planning process [Vancouver Courier] INTERNATIONAL • What’s the Secret to World-Class Transit Systems...

  • May 3, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Vancouver’s intersection with the most bicycle-vehicle collisions [OpenFile] • BC Liberals and Bob Rennie tighten grip on housing construction in...

  • Friday, May 4: Architect Darryl Condon at CreativeMornings/Vancouver

    On Friday May 4th, 2012, Vancouver architect Darryl Condon graces the CreativeMornings/Vancouver stage at W2 Media Cafe to speak from the perspective of a...

  • May 2, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • OP-ED: Pipeline risks are too great for Vancouver [Vancouver Sun] • Reader’s Soapbox: Rize exposes flaws in Vancouver’s planning...

  • Jane’s Walk 2012 in Vancouver – May 5 & 6 – Find your walk!

    This city is made for walking… and with over 20 Jane’s Walk planned in metro Vancouver on May 5 & 6, there’s never been a better way to explore...

  • May 1, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • One of Vancouver’s original Starbucks to close [Vancouver Sun] • An idea from New York, for Vancouver: a how-to guide on street vending...

  • April 30, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • A New Vancouverism [Atlantic Cities] • New Westminster’s Plaza 88 – The Good, the Bad, and the Industrial [City Caucus] • BC Launches...

  • April 29, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Photos: Official opening of Emery Barnes Park [Vancouver Sun] • NPA councillor wants policy change for parking reserve fund [OpenFile] • Incoming...

  • April 28, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Stephen Quinn’s tour of Our Dumb Vancouver [Globe and Mail] • Transit cop suspended two days for tasing SkyTrain fare evader [Vancouver Sun...

  • STRAPHANGER: The Toronto tragedy

    This week, Spacing presents five excerpts from Straphanger, the new book by Montreal-based author Taras Grescoe. The book examines the success stories...