Features
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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...
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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 -
Housing meets the Sharing Economy – NEXT TUESDAY!
The Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) is hosting a storytelling night on Housing and the Sharing Economy. Don’t miss out this event next...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Cities of Renters: While Vancouver worships homeowners, San Francisco tenants are first-class citizens. First in a series.
Click to see full Infographic: Cities of Renters, Vancouver vs. San Francisco By Jackie Wong, Tyee Solutions Society [Editor’s note: Beautiful...
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Room for thought & space for creation
“What if most people’s priorities are NOT culture? Maybe politicians actually DO respond to residents’ demands.” My question came in response to one of...
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Death and the City
Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal (Photo c/o Jamie From Montreal) As we go about our daily life in the city, death is probably the last thing on our minds...
By Jillian Glover