Features
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Dear urban Vancouver: defend our transit future!
It’s been almost a week since TransLink requested new revenue generating tools to pay for transit expansions. In that time, we’ve heard all the cons from...
By Paul Hillsdon -
Sim City: Neighbouring Cities & Updates
Spacington hasn’t grown very much this week: the population is still sitting around 50,000 people, there was is no new major business or residential...
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Urban Planet: Urbanology
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: Walk Raleigh Wayfinding Signs
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...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The City of Terrace has teamed up with the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine in hopes...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesdays: Roadtown, history’s longest utopia
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. In 1910, Edgar Chambless released his...
By Mike Bulko -
Urban Planet: “Broken Windows” for Traffic Crimes
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...
By Hilary Best -
The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture
“The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture completes my study on the role of the senses, embodiment, and imagination in architectural...
By Sean Ruthen -
A Convenience City Ultimatum
[Editor’s Note: We are glad to be present the final part of the newest Tyee Series written by the University of British Columbia’s Patrick...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet: Beautiful Streets
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...
By Hilary Best -
Price Points:The Beginning of Vancouverism?
. Did “Vancouverism” start here? . . What’s ‘Vancouverism,’ some recent arrival might ask? Our friend the Wiki says...
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Urban Planet: Pothole Advertising
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...
By Hilary Best