Features
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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 -
HEADSPACE: Author Gabriel Campanario discusses the Art of Urban Sketching
Sketching is a way of discovering communities, showing lively streetscapes, soaring architecture and intriguing faces. Gabriel Campanario‘s book The...
By Noah van der Laan -
On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture can Change Your Life
Edited by Amy Walker (New World Library, 2012) There is no doubt that cycling culture is changing and becoming more popular as a means of traveling around...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Urban Planet: Street Vendors’ Guide
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 -
Mapping Vancouver Crime – Part 3
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the third and final part of Ian Lowrie’s investigation into Vancouver crime patterns.] What makes a...
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Price Points: The Final Opening of Emery Barnes Park
Price Points began last July with this image: . . It’s Emery Barnes Park, in the heart of Downtown South (map here). And it’s time to return...
By Gordon Price -
Creative Mapping Contest deadline on Monday!
Spacing magazine presents the CREATIVE MAPPING CONTEST Do you love maps? Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, or visual storyteller? Spacing wants...
By Matthew Blackett -
Urban Planet: Detroit’s 40 Square Miles of Vacant Land
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: Bus Shelters & International Business
Bus transit is big in Spacington. The city has adopted new lines, extended a few, and created a multi-city connection. Not bad, eh? Still not great. The...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Unique Hydro Pylons
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 -
An Overview of Vancouver’s New Official Community Planning Process
Vancouver has a rich history of urban planning and, this spring, the City of Vancouver is launching three new Community Plan processes in...
By Yuri Artibise