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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...

UnVisioning the Viaducts: Critical Analysis of the Concept Plan

The Creekside Community Centre was packed on Thursday Evening, bustling with conversations between city staff and residents as they observed the Viaducts...

Urban Planet: New York Elevator 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...