Features
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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...
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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...
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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 -
Enter Spacing’s creative mapping contest!
Spacing magazine presents the CREATIVE MAPPING CONTEST Do you love maps? Are you an illustrator, graphic designer, or visual storyteller? Spacing wants...
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Urban Planet: Historic Buildings as Parking Lots
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 -
From Wasteland to Condo-Land: Documenting Vancouver’s Olympic Village
One of the most talked about sites in Vancouver’s recent history is the former Olympic Village. From the Olympic celebrations to the eco-sustainability of...
By Yuri Artibise -
Sim City: A detailed look at Spacington
This week’s post is all about showing off Spacington to give readers a closer look at our newly established city. The images display an overview of...
By Dylan Collie