Features
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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...
By Jeff Nield -
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...
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Urban Planet: The Urban Genome Project
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 -
Commercial Drive’s Historian: An Interview with Jak King
Jak King knows a lot about the history of Commercial Drive. In his recently released The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive...
By David Peacock -
Price Points: An absence of something iconic
It’s a Thursday evening and we’ll all on the 236, heading to one of the great places in the Lower Mainland: Grouse Mountain. . No surprise...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Insull’s Chicago Transit Posters
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: DIY Crosswalks in Baltimore
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 -
Vancouver’s Demographic Time Bomb
[Editor’s Note: We are glad to be present the third part of the newest Tyee Series written by the University of British Columbia’s Patrick...
By Spacing -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Metro Vancouver has watered down its latest attempt to limit the construction of giant...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: New South China Mall
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