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Price Points: Beauty = Waste
What’s going on behind the shrink wrap? . They’re doing work on the exterior of the Dal Grauer Substation on Burrard Street (map here...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Scoring Walk Score
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: City Amenities, Inconveniences, Opportunities
Among the many features in Spacington—A university, city hall, jail and courthouse, major league baseball station, golf course, harbour, boat docks and...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Old Maps Online
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. The Cowichan Watershed Board feels something needs to be done about the fact that 28 per...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That’s elephants over the bridge
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. One year after it was opened, the...
By Mike Bulko -
What Can Vancouver Learn From Phoenix?
[Editor’s Note: Spacing Vancouver reader’s are sure to recognize the name Yuri Artibise. As one of our regular contributors and an important...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet: Remarkable 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 -
Urban Planet: Comparing Transit in Toronto, Montreal and Los Angeles
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 -
Landform Building
Edited by Stan Allen & Marc McQuade (Lars Müller Publishers 2011) For centuries the discipline of architecture has drawn from the axioms of nature to...
By Larraine Henning -
Mapping Vancouver Crime – Part 1
[Editor’s Note: The relationship between crime and urban form is an important, but under-discussed, phenomenon. As such, it is our pleasure to give...
By Ian Lowrie -
Price Points: The Goldilocks Campus
Why, when compared to its predecessors, is this space just about right? . This is the Atrium at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus – a...
By Gordon Price