Features
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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 -
Price Points: Old L.A.
I’m off to Los Angeles, and back in a few weeks with a continuation of the Burnaby town-centre series. In the meantime, here’s a shot of Old...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Best Cities for Street Food
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 -
Sim City: Walking and LRT in Spacington
Spacington is slowly getting bigger. The population is still low at around 1,500 residents, but nevertheless the city has adopted it’s first LRT...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Jay Walkers
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 -
Mayor calls on development industry to eliminate affordable housing
[Editor’s Note: Affordability is a major concern in Vancouver – and is arguably the issue that will govern the future of the city for the...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The Similkameen River watershed study is underway as the Similkameen Valley Planning...
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Making Vancouver Work for Everyone
[Editor’s Note: We are glad to be partnering with the Tyee to introduce Spacing readers to the newest Tyee Series written by the University of...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet: Before & After Photos of London Riots
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