Features
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: US school suspends cycling students
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. At my high school (and most others...
By Mike Bulko -
Re:THINK Housing Nerd Jam
Last Friday June 15th the City of Vancouver in partnership with GenWhy Media and the Vancouver Design Nerds held a ‘Nerd Jam’ to get the wheels turning...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Urban Planet: Creative Class, Revisited
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 -
Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years
“As the eighties progressed , the city – especially its residential areas – endured a demolition spree. The theme of my earlier Vanishing Vancouver book...
By Sean Ruthen -
Urban Planet: Transient Camps
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 -
Price Points: Urban Propinquity
A summer day, a hiker, berries in the bush: Where is she? Here, on Habitat Island, False Creek, in the heart of Vancouver (map here). . A kilometre...
By Gordon Price -
Increasing Cycling Ridership and Safety (Velo-city Preview Part 2!)
The sun is coming out as the journey through Vancouver becomes easier. Visitors and locals leave fast moving traffic and exhaust fumes behind, and eagerly...
By Kathleen Corey -
Urban Planet: Greenpeace’s Billboard Ad
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. Bad news for farmers, as it seems like they won’t be getting any break from Metro...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Moby on Architecture
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 #4
Last VT image: DeBoville Slough, Port Coquitlam. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
By Erick Villagomez -
Right to Bike youth cycling education framework (Velo-city Preview Part 1!)
As more and more people take up cycling as their choice form of transportation, there are seemingly more and more interpretations to the rules of the...
By Andrew Cuthbert