Features
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Green Roofs: The North American Context
In the winter of 2014, Associate Professor Daniel Roehr conducted a Green Roof Seminar for his landscape architecture and environmental design students...
By Tamara Bonnemaison -
Water Urbanisms
Vancouver is a rainy city surrounded by water. It is part of the Pacific Northwest, a place whose regional identity is almost wholly linked to its natural...
By Nuala O'Donnell -
Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 2
Yesterday, we highlight the speakers and issues discussed at the SFU’s Housing in the City Beyond The Headlines storytelling event last Monday. The...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 1
In 2007, Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right for Adequate Housing, called Canada’s housing situation for its most...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Halloween For Planning Nerds: CANDY DENSITY
Halloween is an Urbanist Holiday (shhh don’t tell anybody) Halloween as a Holiday – more than any other – is about neighbourhood. It is a holiday that...
By Brendan Hurley -
City of Vancouver Urban Design Studio: R.I.P 2004 – 2014
It is with great sadness that Spacing Vancouver must report the unofficial “death” of the City of Vancouver’s highly respected Urban...
By Erick Villagomez -
Visual Thoughts #47
Last VT image: Autumn at John Hendry Park, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
By Erick Villagomez -
Vancouver Civic Election Debate Livens Up with “Last Candidate Standing”
Civic elections typically have the lowest voter turnout, especially amongst the under-35 set. In other words, good luck in getting them to show up to an...
By Jillian Glover -
The False Creek Pump Station
On Saturday October 4th, the City of Vancouver hosted Doors Open Vancouver, a unique event which provided a rare opportunity for behind the scenes access...
By George Poulos -
Vancouver Confidential: Not your Dad’s history book
Those of us who write history books are used to being told “my dad would love that.” And while hearing things like this warms our hearts; it’s nice to...
By Eve Lazarus -
The Comprehensive Costs of Transportation and Metro Vancouver – Conclusion
[EDITOR’S NOTE: We are please to offer our readers the conclusion to George Poulos’ in-depth series focusing on the Comprehensive Costs of...
By George Poulos -
CCT Part 5 – A New Tool for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Transportation Projects
[EDITOR’S NOTE: We are please to offer our readers the fifth part of George Poulos’ in-depth series focusing on the Comprehensive Costs of...
By George Poulos