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Neighbourhood Watch
A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of Byron Barrett A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C...
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Visual Thoughts #19
Last VT image: Tree at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
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On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Author: Ada Louise Huxtable (Walker & Company, 2008) “She was too urbane to be a missionary, and too subtle to be a crusader. She was a writer, and a...
By Sean Ruthen -
Urban Planet: New York rolls out wayfinding signs
New York City’s transportation commission has installed maps across the city to promote businesses and pedestrian activity throughout the city...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. An interesting strategy of giving away reflective armbands is being employed by the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Art structure made of bicycles
It took 760 bicycles stacked on top of each other to create this massive art structure. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei produced the stunning work of art as part...
By Jonathan Zettel -
SpacingExpress: Bridging A Sense Of Place – Port Mann and Fast Ferries Make the Same Mistakes
The Port Mann bridge has received some unwelcome international attention. Ice bombs fell onto cars from the support cables, and then the bridge deck froze...
By Lenore Newman -
Urban Planet: Introducing Wendy the smog-eater
This giant spiky blue pavilion, known as Wendy, is making its rounds to showcase how architecture can stretch the limits, ignite the human imagination...
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Urban Planet: NASA-NOAA cities at night
Check out these stunning space visuals of sprawling city lights etching their way across the earth. Scientists from NASA and NOAA are using these...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Neighbourhood Watch
A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of Stephen Rees. A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C...
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Urban Planet: Soda bottle lights
In low income communities across the globe, natural light is often unavailable in windowless homes crowded together under corrugated metal roofs. Even on...
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Urban Planet: Walkability boosts city’s ecomony
After being hit hard by the national housing crisis, the city of Lancaster in California, was looking for ways to grow. With the newly built Lancaster...
By Jonathan Zettel