Features
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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 -
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...
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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