Features
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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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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 -
Echoes Across Seymour
Author: Janet Pavlik, Desmond Smith and Eileen Smith (Harbour Publishing, 2012) A couple of years back I interviewed Charles Van Sandwyk in his Deep Cove...
By Eve Lazarus -
Urban Planet: Living green in Tokyo
Japan might not be first country that comes to mind when we think about ground breaking environmental living, but that’s changing. From urban farms...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. As usual, 2013 was kicked of by thousands of swimmers jumping into very chilly...
By Erick Villagomez -
Visual Thoughts #18
Last VT image: View towards Central Beijing from Beijing Conference Centre. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He...
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2012 InReview: The vague terrain of art in the generic city
While our Spacing Vancouver contributors continue their well-deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity highlight some of our most popular...
By Don Schuetze -
Urban Planet: 100% recycled bike
Desiging the world’s first 100% recycled bicycle wasn’t easy, but company The ReCycle was able to overcome major challenges to present the...
By Jonathan Zettel -
2012 InReview: A City that Runs on Itself
While our Spacing Vancouver contributors continue their well-deserved break, we would like to take the opportunity highlight some of our most popular...
By Spacing