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Writing Vancouver – I Might Be Nothing

It is well known that cities foster development in all facets of the creative arts. Given that we are visual beings, visual forms of creative expression...

Urban Planet: Tiles Harnessing Pedestrian Power

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...

Food Truck Friday: Railway Street, Invitation

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The Burnaby Food Swap that started last year is growing. Their third event, slated for...

Urban Planet: Urban Plant Tags

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...

Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Civilization in the year 3991 AD

Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. A decade-long computer simulation has...

Urban Planet: Popularise – Collaborative Planning Online

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...

City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form

Author: Emily Talen (Island Press, 2011) American cities are now saddled with rules that work against the formation of compact, diverse, walkable, urban...

Urban Planet: Preserving the View of Citadel Hill

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...

On Bias, Critique, and Civic Duty: An Interview with an “Unabashedly Subjective” Gentrification Researcher

[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is traveling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...

Price Points: L.A. Transformation

You may have missed this: With the passage of Measure R (November, 2008), Los Angeles bought itself a massive expansion of its rapid transit network. The...

Restaurants that Changed Vancouver: Hon’s

[Spacing Vancouver is proud to present a new ongoing series about how food helps define the city. Dr. Lenore Newman and Katherine Burnett look into the...