Features
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The Shops at New West Station
New Shops like FamousFootwear.com are located at the New West Station (formerly known as Plaza 88) and is a mixed-use development surrounding New...
By Ian Lowrie -
Streetcrow: Another View of Urban Life
Streetcrow, Vancouver’s most recent social media darling, said goodbye on Wednesday. After his post went out, to more than 3500 followers on Twitter and...
By Katherine Burnett -
Urban Planet: Spinning flywheels boost subways
We can only imagine the amount of energy it takes so send subways around the city. Here’s an article that has at least one solution taken from the...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Plymouth elementary may be transformed into duplexes, townhouses, a private school or...
By Yuri Artibise -
Visual Thoughts #17
Last VT image: View from airplane window flying over Alaska. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Project-a-lane bike lights
BLAZE – Kickstarter Launch Video from BLAZE COMPONENTS on Vimeo. Has your mayor ripped out all your bike lanes? Fear not! Blaze has a solution, or...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Urban Planet: Detroit’s Packard plant
The video tells the story of Detroit’s Packard plant. The hundred-year-old building once produced luxury vehicles, but now it sits crumbling...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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...
By Elle Ziegler -
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...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
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...
By Brendan Hurley -
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...
By Jonathan Zettel -
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...
By Erick Villagomez