Features
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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 -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Construction is heating up to complete the 9.3 kilometre bike/pedestrian loop around...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Art of Urban Sketching: Victoria
This week, Spacing presents excerpts from The Art of Urban Sketching, the new book by Seattle-based artist and journalist Gabriel Campanario. The book...
By Noah van der Laan -
Urban Planet: Mapping the World’s Road, Shipping and Air Routes
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 -
The Art of Urban Sketching: Toronto
This week, Spacing presents excerpts from The Art of Urban Sketching, the new book by Seattle-based artist and journalist Gabriel Campanario. The book...
By Noah van der Laan -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Kansas City’s Community Bookshelf
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Parking garages usually don’t...
By Mike Bulko -
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) – Part 1
[Editor’s note: We are pleased to give Spacing Vancouver reader’s a deeper look into Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS...
By Sean Ruthen -
The Art of Urban Sketching: Montreal
This week, Spacing presents excerpts from The Art of Urban Sketching, the new book by Seattle-based artist and journalist Gabriel Campanario. The book...
By Noah van der Laan -
Urban Planet: LA’s First Pedestrian Plaza
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