Features
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Price Points: What is Vancouver’s newest neighbourhood?
If you haven’t been down Second Avenue between Cambie and Burrard recently, be prepared for a shock: It’s another instant...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Subway Readers
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 -
Embracing History: How Memphis is Revitalizing its Downtown
In a series called Detroit Rising, Richard Florida profiled Detroit’s creative renaissance and rebound from economic collapse. It showed how the...
By Jillian Glover -
Urban Planet: New York’s Rooftop Views
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. If you area near Shawnigan, Ladysmith or Cowichan Lake tomorrow be sure to catch the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Computer Alerts in the Urban Environment
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 #5
Last VT image: Landscape in Varadero, Cuba. *** Matthew Roddis is an urban designer with the City of Vancouver’s Urban Design Studio, involved in a number...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Slime mold maps out Tokyo’s rail system
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. In one of the weirdest Weird...
By Mike Bulko -
Velo-city 2012 Review Part 1: The Elephant in the Room and The Bull in the China Shop
[Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at some of the interesting issues that were discussed at the Velo-city Conference...
By Kathleen Corey -
Urban Planet: Victoria’s Street Pianos
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: The Architecture of Happiness
Author: Alain de Botton (Pantheon, 2006) I recently found myself speechless after a follower of my writing asked me why I’ve never addressed beauty...
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Metro Ponders Affordability of Vancouver’s Green Spaces
Key to any urban space is the green spaces in, between and around the buildings, roads and developments. A young, vibrant city such as Vancouver is much...
By Maria Tritton