Features
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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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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 -
Price Points: An Interesting Street
Michael Alexander, a Vancouver urbanist, thinks this is actually the most interesting block on one of the most interesting streets in the city at the...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Politics seem to be finding a younger generation in Abbotsford as 17-year-old...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Bankruptcy, transit pass, commute times
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 -
Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village
Author: Robert Mellin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland...
By Elle Ziegler -
Walk21 Helps Keep You Fit and Busy
A plethora of perambulating peripatetics and other pedestrians descended on Vancouver at the beginning of October to madly rush through 200 presentations...
By Brian Gould -
NPA’s Anton: Streetcar Yes, Bike Lanes No
The nomination deadline for Vancouver’s civic election passed on Friday, with 94 people stepping up for 27 spots across the mayoralty, council, and...
By Brian Gould