Features
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High-rise: Idea and Reality
“Despite the trauma of September 11, 2011, the skyscraper still retains much of its appeal in the twenty-first century – both for the representational...
By Sean Ruthen -
New cartographers: How citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our lives
[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is traveling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...
By Christine McLaren -
Price Points: Towers in the Bush
You see these towers from Highway 1, heading east, way beyond the Vancouver City border. Why aren’t they in the West End? . . This surprising...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Highway Caps
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: Rem Koolhaas
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 City of Surrey is having a little bit of trouble convincing residents of a plan to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Temporary Architecture
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 -
Emmanuel Buenviaje’s Mount Pleasant Vernacular
Sometimes we need to see our city in a new way to realize what has always been there. That is the case with graphic designer and photographer Emmanuel...
By Yuri Artibise -
Urban Planet: Pedestrian behaviour
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 -
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Author: Jarrett Walker (Island Press, 2012) Only if we embrace the facts of transit, and discover the opportunities they present, will our cities, and our...
By Yuri Artibise -
Urban Planet: Flash! Comics Explain Transportation Demand Management
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 -
Lightmodal: public art that isn’t so public
Here’s art with no vision, goals, and of a doubtful legacy. I stole those headings from the Necklace Project website (www.necklaceproject.ca/)...
By Don Schuetze