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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...
By Hilary Best -
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...
By Yuri Artibise -
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...
By Hilary Best -
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...
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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...
By Gordon Price -
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...
By Katherine Burnett -
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...
By Brendan Hurley -
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...
By Hilary Best -
Sim City: Auto-Saurus-Rex, Volcano, UFO’s in Spacington!
This week some interesting irregular events took place in Spacington: UFO landing, Auto-Saurus-Rex rampage, and a Volcano erupted. If you like this kind...
By Dylan Collie -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Looks like West Bench will be joining the City of Penticton’s water supply with an...
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A Density of Ideas at the Vancouver Urban Forum
The Vancouver Urban Forum held at the Vancouver Playhouse yesterday brought together minds focused on urbanity to discuss and present ideas regarding the...
By Brendan Hurley -
Urban Planet: Urban Monopoly
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