Features
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One Planet Vancouver, 2030 – Introduction to the Introduction
[This six-part series was written in 2007 and is set in 2030. It describes a scenario of how Vancouver became a One Planet City—a city that uses only its...
By Ruben -
Visual Thoughts #34
Last VT image: Tarped building beside baseball diamond, John Hendry Park, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He...
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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 -
The Stanza Project
Every Thursday afternoon, a group of writers gather in Carnegie Community Centre; although not yet six years old, the aptly named Thursdays Writing...
By Katherine Burnett -
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: with few market solutions, community makes housing affordable
[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 -
Cartographically Speaking: Variation in Food Access for Vancouver Neighbourhoods
For a larger image, click here. In the sunshine summer of 2013, I was summoned by my professor and given an interesting task: to roam the supermarkets and...
By chenzhuo -
Generation Rent: Urban Facelifts Serve the Well-Heeled
[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 -
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 -
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 -
Sandy Hirshen, 1935-2013
Guest post by Duane Elverum Early this month a dear friend and long-time mentor passed away. Sandy Hirshen was New York architect who moved to Berkeley in...
By Spacing