Features
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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...
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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 -
Book Review – Representing Landscapes
Editor: Nadia Amoroso (Routledge 2012) One of landscape architecture’s distinguishing features is its interest in temporal effects and outcomes as...
By Shelley Long -
Will Vancouver Replace a Freeway with a Stroad?
Vancouver’s freeway remnants are finally due for demolition. City staff like to draw comparisons to New York’s High Line and Seoul’s famous river...
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Book Review – Stewardship of the Built Environment
Author: Robert A. Young (Island Press, 2012) “The greenest building is one that is already built” Waste from demolition makes up 22% of materials in the...
By Vanessa Kay -
A reluctant cyclist in Europe’s cycling capital – Part 2
Last Monday, I explored the the remarkable persistence of the Dutch cyclist in all types of weather, the Protestant roots of the culture, the impact of...
By Ren Thomas