Features
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Vancouver’s Love-Hate Relationship with Neon
The history of neon in Vancouver reflects the history of the city itself. Neon first symbolized Vancouver’s arrival as a booming metropolis in the 1920s...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Translink could be put under the radar as the Metro Vancouver mayors council voted to...
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World Wide Wednesday: Healthy cities, arenas, historic sites
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 -
Geometry of Design
Author: Kim Elam (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “The purpose of Geometry of Design is not to quantify aesthetics through geometry, but rather to...
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“This is my favourite street in Surrey”
“This is my favourite street in Surrey,” my wife said as we turned onto Central Parkway, the street the Surrey Central Skytrain station is on...
By Don Schuetze -
Price Points: Someplace Beautiful
Where is this, and why is it signficant? It may be the most idyllic garden shed in the Lower Mainland. This is part of Darts Hill Garden Park (map here...
By Gordon Price -
FAVOURITE FRIDAY: What is your favourite pedestrian bridge?
Across the Spacing urban blog network each week we’re asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us...
By Matthew Blackett -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Despite all the buzz, it is nice to see that we behaved ourselves relatively well...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bridges, record playing bikes, Libyan development
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 -
No Freeways, but what about those Viaducts? re:CONNECT Ideas Competition launched!
By Brent Toderian One of the bedrocks of the Vancouver city-building story, which we often refer to as “the most important decision Vancouver ever...
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Tom Kundig: Houses 2
Edited by Daniel S. Friedman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “Tom Kundig’s architecture possesses the relaxed and unpretentious air of...
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Taxicabs and the future of getting around
On October 5th, Maclure’s celebrated 100 years of operation as a taxicab business in the Lower Mainland. Those 100 years have seen a great deal of...
By Karen Quinn Fung