Features
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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...
By Sean Antrim -
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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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 -
Urban Planet: Outdoor Ad Ban in São Paulo
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 -
Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture
Author: Blaine Brownell, Princeton Architectural Press (2012) Architecture is the fulfillment of a spatial premise by way of material substance...
By Larraine Henning -
Price Points: A Hint of What Was to Come
Where’s this, what’s inside, and why does it look like this? . . According to the one discreet sign tucked under the...
By Gordon Price -
Go East, Young City, Security and Aesthetic improvements
“The Burns Block is named for its original owner and builder, Patrick Burns of P. Burns & Company, who had it built in 1909 as the headquarters...
By Sean Ruthen