Features
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. As a way to decrease city spending and address public complaints about the City’s tax...
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Urban Planet: The Fastest Speed Limit in the US
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 #10
Last VT image: Hydro Pole – Grandview Woodland, Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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Restaurants that Changed Vancouver: Japadog
[Spacing Vancouver presents this ongoing series about how food helps define the city. Dr. Lenore Newman and Katherine Burnett look into the restaurants...
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Urban Planet: US Stadium Building Spree
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 -
Book Review – From The Stacks: Suburban Transformations
Author: Paul Lukez (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) The suburbs make up the vast majority of North America’s built landscape. Their creation...
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Urban Planet: Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects
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 -
Religious Buildings, Reincarnated
Residents of the Little Mountain neighbourhood and swimmers on their way to a dip in the Hillcrest Pool might be surprised to see a “for sale” sign in...
By Vanessa Kay -
Urban Planet: An App to Track Investments in the Delaware Valley
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for lawyer websites...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The proposed 180-hectare rezoning just south of Highway 1 near Glover Road in the...
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UN-Habitat Launches Open-Data Platform
[Editor’s Note: Resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Christine McLaren, continues her coverage of the World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Moscow’s furriest commuters
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Stray dogs have been prevalent in...
By Mike Bulko