Features
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Book Review: Urban Wildscapes, Anna Jorgensen and Richard Kennan
Editors: Anna Jorgensen and Richard Kennan (Routledge, 2011) Urban Wildscapes is a diverse collection of essays that provides a critical look at the...
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Bike Rides Society
Earlier this year, a couple of cyclists from Austin Texas popped into Vancouver at the beginning of their tour down to San Francisco. Within every town...
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CityStudio Blasting Off
Friday night was the CityStudio Holiday Blast. Held at the Wise Hall off the Drive, the event was a celebration of the first year of the Studio’s...
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Urban Planet: Mesmerizing visualizations of mass-transit
While you are riding the overcrowded bus to work, it might be impossible to imagine how many other people, on innumerable forms of transit, are scattered...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Metro Vancouver is voting today on whether or not to create hydroelectric power at its...
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Urban Planet: Mother of all traffic jams
Over two feet of snow dumped on Russian, which might have been fine, had some localities not closed exits along the major highway. Prices along the way...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Deadlines: Obits of Memorable British Columbians
Author: Tom Hawthorn, Harbour Publishing, October 2012 As a journalist it always fascinates me where my colleagues find their passions. For me, it’s how...
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Guillermo Penalosa: People Moving Cities: Part II
Guillermo Penalosa is considered one of the premier voices on the vitalizing nature of human powered transportation and public spaces in Cities. He is the...
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Urban Planet: Bulgaria’s Klek Shops
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…..with the 23rd annual tree...
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Visual Thoughts #16
Last VT image: View to laneway near Commercial Dr. and 12th, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He...
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Urban Planet: The Quiet Car
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best