Culture
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Book Review – Urban Magnets: How Activity Subcultures Can Be a Catalyst for Rejuvenating Cities
Authors: Bruce Haden, Mark Holland and Bruce Irvine (Urban Magnets Press 2020) Urban Magnets: How Activity Subcultures Can Be a Catalyst for Rejuvenating...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
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...
By Erick Villagomez -
On Interior Urbanism: An Interview with Jeremy Senko
Interiors and urbanism are often considered opposites of one another. But are they so different? Spacing Vancouver’s Erick Villagomez recently had a...
By Erick Villagomez -
Digging Into Where The Sun Needs Shine – BROADWAY PLAN – Part 2
Expand upon our embedded assets This lyric essay digs inside the psyche of planning processes. It uses the oblique projection of poetry to throw light on...
By grahammcgarva -
The Blue Cabin: A Dream of Home in Uncertain Times
Amidst widespread housing instability, many feel that we may never again be able to dream of a home to call our own. There’s a deep, unsatiated sense of...
By Iris Leung -
Book Review – Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of The Mall
What was your mall? Mine was Oakridge Centre in Vancouver. It wasn’t particularly glamorous with its exterior of boring brown brick, but it was the town...
By Christopher Cheung -
Architecture and Capital in the 21st Century: An Interview with Matthew Soules
Architecture, cities, and economics have always had an intimate relationship. The last century has seen the largest explosion of buildings and settlements...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Tower Default
“Hell is paved with good intentions.” ― Samuel Johnson “But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.” ― Neal...
By Erick Villagomez -
Vancouver, Where Did Your Shophouses Go?
Once upon a time in Vancouver, it was common to stroll to a nearby street corner to pick up some groceries, candy, or even some compressed gas for fuel...
By Christopher Cheung -
Book Review: Wallpaper* City Guide Vancouver
Text by Hadani Ditmars (Phaidon Press, 2019) A tightly edited, discreetly packaged selection of city highlights for the design-conscious visitor. Each...
By Sean Ruthen -
Book Review | Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design
Author: Kristina Wilson (Princeton University Press, 2021) In Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in...
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On Kwikwetlem territory, a new vision for Riverview
The Riverview Lands, on the slope above the Coquitlam River, were known as a storied place. Settlers will remember the area most for its mental health...
By Christopher Cheung