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11 Milestones that will Shape Vancouver’s Future
What are the significant events, activities and decisions in 2016 that will shape Vancouver’s future? Earlier this fall, the Vancouver City Planning...
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Emergency Shelter Distribution in BC
Map courtesy of author. To interact with it, click here: Homelessness, emergency shelters, and affordable housing are not simply Vancouver or Victoria...
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Year-In-Review Panel Pinpoints Milestones of 2016
The Vancouver City Planning Commission convened their second annual Year-In-Review forum on January 30, 2017 to consider milestones in planning and...
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Book Review: The Death and Life of the Single Family House
Author: Nathaniel Lauster (Temple University Press, 2016) In The Death and Life of the Single Family House: Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable...
By Yuri Artibise -
River District Appeals to Families with Walkability, Nature and Fun
Author’s Note:I am writing a short series, “Cities for Families” to showcase how local governments, non-profits and the private sector are working...
By Jillian Glover -
Tiny house, anyone?
Had you asked me a couple years ago if my next project would focus on tiny houses, I would have scoffed at the thought. More so, I’d have asked, what is a...
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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...
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Book Review – Infrastructural Monument
Author: MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Infrastructural Monument presented the products of a conference of the same...
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Thom and NIMBY: An Odd Coupling
What are we talking about when we remember the dead? I’ve recently helped my family in Israel produce a book in memory of my father, and thanks to...
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Housing Central 2016 – Inspiring Talks on Affordable Housing
On Nov 21 to 23, the Housing Central Conference—the biggest affordable housing conference in western Canada—took place at the Sheraton Hotel in Richmond...
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“Cities for Families” Series: City of North Vancouver Creates Strategy that puts Children and Families First
CITIES FOR FAMILIES: LOCAL GOVERNMENT I am writing a short, three-part series, “Cities for Families” to showcase how local governments, non-profits and...
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Happy Streets “Living Lab” Results Suggest Public Space Affects Wellbeing
How do we know when we are in a good public space? Does it make us happier, more calm, or even more generous? We can get the sense that a place with green...
By Jillian Glover