Features
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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...
By Gordon Price -
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 -
Sim City: Density Growth
Spacington has grown from a little town to a city. Plenty of single-family homes in each of the neighbourhoods have changed their faces and transformed...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Participatory Mapping
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. In the Comox Valley, a local conservation group thinks developments are being approved...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Grand Central’s dirty secret
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. High above commuter’s heads...
By Mike Bulko -
Hubbub about a Food Hub
[Editor’s Note: A warm thanks to Jeff Nield, citylab and the fine folks at Edible Vancouver Magazine who gave us permission to cross-post this...
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Urban Planet: Habitat 67 in LEGO?
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 -
Book Review – From The Stacks: The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
Author: Charles Landry (Earthscan, 2008) Creativity, as a subject, has been of growing interest over the past few decade. What is it? What factors...
By Erick Villagomez