Features
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Visual Thoughts #38
Last VT image: Ceperley House (a.k.a. The Burnaby Art Gallery) – Burnaby, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing...
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Gastown 1905 to 2014
As Vancouver’s original Downtown founded in 1867, Gastown survived a period of decline and disrepair following the 1960s, today known as a tourist...
By Adam Naamani -
Visual Thoughts #37
Last VT image: View to Semiahmoo Bay from Peace Arch Park – Surrey, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He...
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Studies on the West End – Camera Obscura 1555 Georgia Street
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Spacing -
Visual Thoughts #36
Last VT image: Grouse Mountain Peak Chalet, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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Where Happiness and Urban Design Intersect: An Interview with Happy City Author, Charles Montgomery
Charles Montgomery is a man with an obsession. He’s spent years investigating the link between cities and happiness. Montgomery’s findings...
By Liz Vossen -
Rewilding a City
As a relatively young, modern city nestled between the North Shore mountains and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, it is not hard to imagine Vancouver’s...
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Book Review – Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer (MIT Press, 2011) This is a small book of a hundred or so pages that offers 100 bits of advice on how cities...
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Cartographically Speaking – 3D Vancouver
For a larger image, click here. A few months back, I felt like experimenting with different representation methods. Inspired by one of my favorite...
By Erick Villagomez -
Book Review – Jane’s Walk Annual: Volume One
“This book is about what can happen when people get together and go for a walk. In Guadalajara, they made a citizen’s crosswalk by tracking paint...
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Building Resilient Cities: Effective Dialogue and Solutions Anticipated at the GLOBE 2014 Conference
Vancouver welcomes the GLOBE series, North America’s largest International Business & Sustainability Conference. The conference will be held at the...
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Lani Russwurm’s Awesome Vancouver
When Lani Russwurm jumped online in 2008 he was one of the first to write about history in his blog Past Tense. Vancouver is Awesome, and last year he...
By Eve Lazarus