Features
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Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars
From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before the neighbourhood...
By Christopher Cheung -
On This Patch of Grass: An Interview with Matt Hern, Daisy Couture, Selena Couture, and Sadie Couture
Parks are an important part of the contemporary city. Yet, the fact that parks are so common place makes critically discussion around them increasingly...
By Erick Villagomez -
Uh oh. I’m a Planner and Planning Makes Housing More Expensive
Thank Andy Yan for throwing yet another rock into the placid pond of our taken for granted assumptions. As someone who advocates planning and has called...
By Patrick Condon -
Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle
E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer. Last-mile delivery is...
By sylviagreen -
Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?
I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway SkyTrain all the way...
By Patrick Condon -
The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series
As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in partnership with the...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Book Review – Close Up At A Distance: Mapping Technology and Politics
Author: Laura Kurgan (Zone Books, 2012) Close Up At A Distance: Mapping Technology and Politics is an excellent introduction to the world of remote...
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Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’
Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family residences to pay a...
By scothein -
Redesigning Cities to Support Seniors Stuck in Suburban Sprawl
Rasiklal Joshi never took the bus. He always drove — until he reached his 80s and his doctor told him to stop. “I tried to persuade my doctor, but he said...
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VancouverSpeculations: Covered Playgrounds
http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2018/12/17/vancouverspeculations-covered-playgrounds/Covered playground concept. To enlarge the image, click here. For many...
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A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’
On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set up a bench and a...
By Christopher Cheung -
All about Housing: A Small Housing BC Summit and Housing Central Conference Summary
Affordable Housing has been a hot and heavy topic in Vancouver for over a decade. Between 2006 to 2016 the price of detached houses increased by 158.8...
By Ulduz Maschaykh