Features
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Turn Your City Into Your Gym: A DIY Guide
[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is traveling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...
By Christine McLaren -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Issues around banning backyard and commercial burning flare in Cowichan as fall-fire...
By Erick Villagomez -
Visual Thoughts #9
Last VT image: Coco Taxi – Varadero, Cuba. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Venice of the Netherlands
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Although Venice steals the show in...
By Mike Bulko -
Restaurants that Changed Vancouver: The Naam
[Spacing Vancouver is proud to present this ongoing series about how food helps define the city. Dr. Lenore Newman and Katherine Burnett look into the...
By Katherine Burnett -
Book Review: Branding Cities
Edited By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, and Catherine Kevin (Routledge, 2012) Can a city be described in just a few words? Paris as the...
By Chris Quigley -
Where are all the commercial vehicles? Surrey.
According to the most recent statistics come from B.C. Stats (via ICBC), Surrey has more licensed commercial vehicles than Vancouver. It looks like...
By Don Schuetze -
Urban Planet: Floating Cycling Infrastructure
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. Highlighting the many land deals that violated several provincial regulations under...
By Erick Villagomez -
Writing Vancouver – Cool Dark Summer
••• Cool Dark Summer SEAN ORR A cool, dark grey cap of clouds in July makes the light fight even harder for a spot between the maple and cobble The...
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Urban Planet: Wall Street Commuters During the Financial Crisis
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 -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: British zombies invade a suburban mall
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. It’s becoming clear that the...
By Mike Bulko