Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Occupy, Pocket Parks, Traffic Fatalities
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Design and People
Author: Michael Dobbins (Wiley, 2009) “Urban Design is a diffuse and abstract term, it means different things to different people.” With these opening...
By Yuri Artibise -
A suburban pilgrimage, Part I: Learning to like Levittown
A Pilgrimage to Levittown, NY (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Burbs) from ResilientPLANET on Vimeo. [Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver...
By Christine McLaren -
Price Points: Naked in Auckland
Where is this street in Auckland, New Zealand, and why is it naked? . . This is Elliott Street in the heart of Auckland’s Central Business District...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Four months after Brenda Patterson first approached Port Alberni City Council about...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Avenue towards heaven, biking broadway
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
VPSN Special Election Feature: Parks Board Candidate Survey Responses
[Editors Note: During election time, the mayoral and council races tend to get all the attention. It is for this reason that we at Spacing Vancouver are...
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Book Review – From The Stacks: Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape
Author: Brian Hayes (W.W.Norton & Company, 2006) Infrastructure is the unsung hero behind all cities – large and small. It is every-present...
By Erick Villagomez -
Price Points: A Noshery
Where is this, and why is it not your average food cart? . It’s in Portland. No surprise there, for those who have followed the migration of food...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Bad news for marijuana growers in the Valley as the Abbotsford Police launch a new...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Station art, transportation bills, health care savings
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
100 Ideas that Changed Architecture
Author: Richard Weston (Laurence King, 2011) Just as the title implies, 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture by Richard Weston proposes a chronological...
By Warren Scheske