Housing
Spacing Express: Winners of the Urbanarium Mixing Middle Competition
By Spacing
Urbanarium has just announced the winners of The Mixing Middle competition, which sought innovative mixed–use designs for four... Read More
‘Most Livable City?’ A 30-Year Gap in Life Expectancy Exists Within Vancouver
By Christopher Cheung
Live in Vancouver? Then you’ve seen those annual rankings that celebrate it as one of the world’s “most livable cities.” But zoom in... Read More
As Vancouver Shrinks, the Suburbs Swell
By Christopher Cheung
Is it a pandemic exodus? Vancouver’s population has shrunk for the first time in half a century, according to population estimates by... Read More
Vancouver Needs Way More Co-ops. Here’s How to Get Them
By patrickcondon
The cost of housing has reached a crisis point in Vancouver, with no clear agreement on what to do about it. Which made it a rare... Read More
Vancouver’s Dramatic New Plan for Broadway: Five Questions
By patrickcondon
The City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan has been released for public comment and is full of dramatic proposals. Profusely illustrated... Read More
Deconstructing Visuals 2.0
By Erick Villagomez
It’s been 10 months since I wrote Deconstructing Visuals. Within that piece, I argued that the architectural profession’s dominion... Read More
Graphic Novella: You Forgot About Me! – Part 3
By scothein
By Scot Hein with illustrations by J.G. This is the final part of a three-part graphic novella, bookending the Zoning Must Evolve... Read More
Zoning Must Evolve – Part 5
By scothein
Demonstrated Resiliency – False Creek South False Creek South (FSC) was borne from Vancouver’s humanist legacy that... Read More
Zoning Must Evolve – Part 4
By scothein
Zoning for Resiliency Zoning regulation in Vancouver is like playing Monopoly. We can purchase the little green pieces (which... Read More
Zoning Must Evolve – Part 3
By scothein
Vancouver’s housing market is obscenely broken. Time has run out for those left behind who have inherited a cruel reality where... Read More