Features
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Urban Planet: Alleyways
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 -
Identifying Areas for Transit-Oriented Development in Vancouver
As many people may know, transit-oriented development (TOD) is emerging as a popular and influential planning idea across North American cities as a means...
By Victor Ngo -
Urban Planet: Unique Manhole Covers
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 -
Urban Planet: London’s New Recycling Bins
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 8,000 square foot multi-million dollar Vancouver Island Mountain Centre sitting on...
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Urban Planet: Chattanooga’s Type Face
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 -
From Chief Planner to “Urban Ronin”? Chatting about legacy, and the future, with Brent Toderian – Part 2
This is the second part of an interview between Spacing Vancouver Editor Erick Villagomez and former Vancouver Director of Planning Brent Toderian...
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Vancouver in 2050: Transit City
[Editor’s Note: We are glad to be present the second part of the newest Tyee Series written by the University of British Columbia’s Patrick...
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Urban Planet: Public Perception and the Economic Benefits of Light Rail Transit
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 -
Book Review – From The Stacks: Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the Twenty-First Century
Editors: Gloria Ohland & Shelley Poticha (Reconnecting America, 2006) On June 27, 1890, an event occurred in the little boom town of Vancouver that...
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From Chief Planner to “Urban Ronin”? Chatting about legacy, and the future, with Brent Toderian – Part 1
The early contract termination of Vancouver’s former director of planning Brent Toderian has been a hot topic in planning news, local and abroad. To...
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Urban Planet: Los Angeles Sidewalk Lawsuits
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