Features
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One Planet Vancouver, 2030 – Part 3
[This six-part series was written in 2007 and is set in 2030. It describes one scenario of how Vancouver became a One Planet City—a city that uses only...
By Ruben -
Looking at Housing + Sharing
In late October, the Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) held an introspective event on Housing and Sharing at the Lost and Found Cafe in...
By Cameron Barker -
One Planet Vancouver, 2030 – Part 2
[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 -
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