Features
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Exposé: Kate Armstrong of the Goethe Satellite of Vancouver
The Goethe Satellite Vancouver is part of a 2 year initiative of Germany’s Goethe-Institut to create a programming framework where artists and...
By Cameron Barker -
Urban Planet: Walking Every Street in New York City
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 -
Citizens of No Place
Author: Jimenez Lai (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) Citizens of No Place is my kind of book, 90% diagrams and 10% text. This architecture graphic...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Urban Planet: Bicycle Monuments
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 -
Malcolm Bromley & Constance Barnes Interview – Part 1
Parks are some of the most significant and meaningful public spaces in our cities. As traditional spaces of leisure, nature, and sport, parks have played...
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Price Points: Nicest Corner in the West End
Sure, ‘niceness’ is subjective. But there are some objective reasons. The Haro and Cardero corner (map here) is just a block from the...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Teck Resources has generously donated $1 million to complete the sections of the Trans...
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Writing Vancouver – Poem #1
Writing Vancouver is a bi-weekly section that highlights local talent in the literary arts. Over the coming weeks, Spacing Vancouver readers will be...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet: LumaHelm – A Gesture Controlled Helmet
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: Taiwan’s UFO hotel
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. On the outskirts of Taipei sat these...
By Mike Bulko -
Velo-City 2012 Part 2 – Know your cyclists: Increasing cycling mode share around the world.
[Editor’s Note: This is the second and final part of a series looking at some of the interesting issues that were discussed at the Velo-city...
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Urban Planet: Beijing’s Olympic Venues in Disrepair
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