Features
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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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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 -
Studies on the West End – Connectivity/Walkability/Sense of Community
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Spacing -
Book Review – Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature
A tree assumes its form depending on its variety. By repeating very simple rules, the tree creates a very complex order. But a tree also decides its own...
By Sean Ruthen -
Driving Up the Cost – A new perspective on affordability in Vancouver
To say affordability is an important issue in this region would be an understatement. Vancouver has been recognized as one of the least affordable...
By leehaber -
Visual Thoughts
Last VT image: Grouse Mountain at night, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
By Erick Villagomez -
Reading the City
I have been thinking about how I read the city. A plaque at Hastings and Hamilton Streets in Vancouver is dedicated to Lauchlan Alexander Hamilton, an...
By Elee Kraljii Gardiner -
Studies on the West End – Georgia Street
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Shelley Long -
Visual Thoughts #26
Last VT image: Early morning parking lot food trucks, downtown Portland. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: 40 Years of Changing Attitudes in Metro Vancouver
Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey 2012 Results Politicians, planners and policy makers can now be informed by forty years of comparative data on the...
By Spacing