Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Three-way streets, Before I Die, Public Space Music Videos
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 -
Vancouver Turns 125, Public Transit 121
We kick off Vancouver’s quasquicentennial year with a look back at the opening of Vancouver’s first public transit system, a mere four years...
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The Cambie Street Corridor and the Future of Vancouver
This interview with Brent Toderian, Vancouver’s director of planning, discusses the recently released draft of the Cambie Corridor Plan, the future...
By Erick Villagomez -
Steam Work
Surely, my proximity to one of Vancouver’s biggest, and most baffling, tourist attractions, the Gastown Steam Clock, which of course is no longer...
By Spacing -
Mappa: The Cartographic Cloth
The word “map” has its origins in the Latin word “mappa” which refers to a cloth square or napkin. My long-term interest in...
By Spacing -
Translink UBC Line: A Light Rail Transit vs Subway Faceoff
TransLink’s public consultation process on the UBC Line took a step forward this past week with a series of workshops and the start of an online...
By Brian Gould -
What’s with our ‘fracking’ water?
In B.C., natural gas companies don’t have to get water permits from the provincial Ministry of the Environment as they pump unrecorded tonnes of it...
By Liam Lahey -
TownShift: Connected
“The city to come… Cities have changed. Their appearance has changed as has the way they are inhabited by people. Above all, cities have become privileged...
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Learning from Japan
Metro Vancouver shares the many of the seismic realities as Japan, so why aren’t we doing anything about it? By Erick Villagomez, re:place Magazine
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Honk if you love honking
Can Abu Dhabi transform itself from a city for cars to one for people? By Jessica Hume, re:place Magazine (as originally printed in Spacing Magazine)
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The Social Life of Public Space in West Africa
Little is written in the public spaces within the context of West Africa. As this piece discusses, however, engaging this topic opens up important issues...
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The Colourful Buses of Seoul
Transit systems always want to paint their buses in matching colours so that riders can spot them easily. But what if different bus colours could tell you...
By John Calimente