Features
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Wanted: Past Residents for a 100th Birthday Party
Nikki Renshaw is throwing a party to celebrate her house’s 100th birthday, she is planning the best party and biggest party of the year, the arrangements...
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Book Review – Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Ghosts and Gardens
Author: Eve Lazarus (Anvil Press, 2012) I’m a sucker for local history books. Whenever I travel I try and find a book store or museum gift shop to look...
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Cartographically Speaking – Safety in Numbers: Why a Bike Lane in Kitsilano?
By Jen Cook & Holly Foxcroft In the heart of Kitsilano, a rumbling started to occur in reaction to the city project to create a safe link between the...
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Playing in the Sandbox
The process of urban planning has always been a bit of a mystery to me and I don’t believe I am the only one to feel this way. The technical...
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Book Review – Small Town Architect
“There are now many paths for the architectural practitioner of today. The recent and future graduates in architecture will now have a different...
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Cartographically Speaking: Vancouver Building Footprints
My sincerest apologies to all the map- and info-geeks out there that have followed Cartographically Speaking over the years and have had to endure the...
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Cartographically Speaking: Mapping Neighbourhood Character Buildings
The buildings in a city give it character and form. They stand as the structures that produce personal recollections of a streets and neighbourhoods. In...
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Photographer Takes Millions of Images, Documenting Vancouver Street Life
“I only shoot people who look like they want their picture taken” – Foncie Pulice Before we had smart phones to capture spontaneous moments of human...
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Cartographically Speaking: Commercial Drive Business Development,1900-1999
Those who have followed my cartographic adventures, know that I consider graphs, charts, diagrams, etc. an extension of mapping. Edward Tufte uses the...
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PARKit Design Challenge
This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...
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Carscadden Thrift: Selected Projects
Bruce Carscadden Architect is a small design studio based in Vancouver, Canada. In nearly a decade of practice, our firm has designed and executed...
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Fork in the Road: Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionary
Burnaby Heights is an interesting and often overlooked neighbourhood. One of Vancouver’s original streetcar suburbs, the Heights is home to quiet...
By Lenore Newman