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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 -
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...
By YarOn Stern -
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...
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LOHA Housing + Sharing Storytelling Event, Oct 22nd
SHARING is a hot topic these days! Think of the way companies like Car2Go, Airbnb, Grupon and Kickstarter are changing how we live, work, move and spend...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
GO PLAY IN THE STREET – The Power of PARK(ing) DAY
Public Intervention on Public Space Last Friday (September 20) a special thing happened in parking stalls on streets in many city’s across North America...
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Do High-Rise Towers Destroy Community?
When I first moved into a high-rise condo tower in Downtown Vancouver several years ago, I remember my excitement at being able to enjoy great views of...
By Jillian Glover -
Experimental Urbanism
The words “experiment” and “urbanism” are rarely in the same sentence. “Experimental urbanism” even less so. A...
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Book Review – Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall
Author: Rosten Woo and Meredith Tenhoor with Damion Rich (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) Who knew that such a small and unassuming book could cut...
By Jeremy Senko