Civic Engagement
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The French Quarter Parklet — Vancouver’s newest parklet melts cycling and chocolate together at last!
The City of Vancouver has embarked on a Parklet Pilot Program, under the VIVA Vancouver program, that provides funding to interested applicants who wish...
By Cameron Barker -
RELEASE: Kickstart the Bike Bar for Main Street’s French Quarter Parklet
Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France is sponsoring a parklet on 21st at Main: a fun, interactive public space for seating and a place for gathering...
By Spacing -
Support a new public space in Commercial Drive!
There is an exciting project coming to Commercial Drive on 2014! The Commercial Drive Parklet is one of the selected projects from VIVA Vancouver’s...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Design that Challenges the Status Quo: Emily Carr’s New Master of Design Program
As an undergraduate architecture student, I once had a professor tell me that I should stop focusing so much on what my project “means” and...
By Natalia Zdaniuk -
Megaphone Newspaper: Navigating through the Urban Form
Megaphone (originally known as Spare Change) is a non-for-profit newspaper that has been providing economic opportunities and employment for the homeless...
By curtisscott -
Generation Rent: San Francisco’s Citizen Tenants
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
By Jackie Wong -
West End draft community plan is online
The City of Vancouver’s draft community plan for the West End is now online. The plan sketches out a direction for the neighbourhood over the next 30...
By Spacing -
Generation Rent: Tyee call for renter story submissions – deadline extended to Monday, Nov. 4
Are you a renter in Metro Vancouver? The Tyee wants to publish your stories. We’re looking for first-person accounts of what it’s like to live...
By Jackie Wong -
REMINDER – LOHA’s Housing+Sharing Event
The Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) is hosting a storytelling night on Housing and the Sharing Economy. This event is tomorrow Tuesday October...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Upcycle Urbanism: Remembering the Reinvention of Granville Street
For seven months (much longer for some), volunteers from Spacing Magazine, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Vancouver Public...
By Anya Paskovic -
Cities of Renters: While Vancouver worships homeowners, San Francisco tenants are first-class citizens. First in a series.
Click to see full Infographic: Cities of Renters, Vancouver vs. San Francisco By Jackie Wong, Tyee Solutions Society [Editor’s note: Beautiful...
By Jackie Wong -
WANTED: Your Opinions (An invitation from the Mayor of Vancouver)
A message from Mayor Gregor Robertson Hello, As part of The City of Vancouver’s Engaged City initiative, I am excited to invite you to be part of...
By Spacing