Features
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Urban Planet: Foursquare Checkins and the Structure of Cities
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
Welcome to the first entry of a new section called Visual Thoughts. Taking inspiration from giants like Paul Madonna (All Over Coffee) and the prolific...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Neft Dashlari, a community on the sea
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. While it looks like an unused set for...
By Mike Bulko -
Stanley Kwok and the Two False Creeks: Part One – Reflections on Developing a Waterfront
The Museum of Vancouver —through its Maraya Project—provided a rare glimpse of the behind-the-scenes world of international city building reflected over...
By Brendan Hurley -
Urban Planet: Growing Vegetables in Vancouver’s Parking Garages
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: Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns
By Ann Forsyth and Laura R. Musacchio (Wiley, 2005) Small parks play a pivotal role in North American cities by being the main open space for most...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Errors in New York’s Subway Map
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 -
V6A: Decoding The Downtown Eastside with Poetry and Prose
When journalists toss around mentions of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, they rarely go without immediately noting that it is “Canada’s poorest postal...
By Jillian Glover -
Price Points: Tale of a Tile
What’s the story behind those blue tiles? And where is this building? Vancouverites of a certain age (i.e. mine) might recognize both the...
By Gordon Price -
Find the Plaques to Make History
Guest Feature by Michael Klassen There’s evidence that our community connections are made more tenuous by modern urban living. There was a time when...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet: Changing Fault in Traffic Accidents
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: Fire!
A fire broke out in Spacington. In fact, two fires broke out in the little city this week. There has been a couple close calls with fire before but this...
By Dylan Collie