Features
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Book Review | The Prehistory of Home
Author: Jerry D. Moore (University of California Press, 2012) Home. The word evokes countless mental images, feelings and emotions. Yet, as we go about...
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Urban Planet: Wenling’s Nail House
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 -
A Place of One’s Own: Family Housing in Vancouver
Authors: Sean Bohle, Zak Bennett, and Josh Taylor Vancouver is in a period of transition. For decades, it was assumed that families with children would...
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Urban Planet: North Korea’s Skatepark
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. BC Ferries has appealed their Land Assessment for the Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal...
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Urban Planet: Mission San Francisco de Asis
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 -
Visual Thoughts #15
Last VT image: People waiting near Broadway Station, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also...
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Guillermo Penalosa: People Moving Cities: Part I
Guillermo Penalosa is considered one of the premier voices on the vitalizing nature of human powered transportation and public spaces in Cities. He is...
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EcoArchitecture: The Work of Ken Yeang
Ecodesign applies not just to how we design, construct, use, recycle, and eventually biointegrate our buildings back into the environment, but to all...
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Gardening with Chayote/Buddha Hand Melon: A Very Vancouver Squash
In small backyards, informally shared plots and community gardens, Vancouver gardeners know how to make the most of small growing spaces. We also take...
By Vanessa Kay -
Urban Planet: Philadelphia’s Washington Avenue
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. Although it took 143 years, the BC government is finally trying to make amends with the...
By Erick Villagomez