Infrastructure
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How False Creek Turned Pink
[Editor’s Note: As we, at Spacing Vancouver, have discussed in the past, having intelligent urban lighting can transform a city. We are republishing...
By Spacing -
RELEASE: Introducing Mobi, Bikes We Share
The name selected for Vancouver’s new bike share program to launch this summer is Mobi (pronounced moe-bee). Vancouver already tops North America for...
By Spacing -
Back to the Water? (Re)engaging with Coal Harbour
By Annika Airas and Trevor Wideman Vancouver’s waterfront has undergone rapid transformations over the past decades, following a global movement that has...
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Videos from the 2016 UBC Urban Design Forum
On March 10 and 11, 2016, the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Arbutus Greenway
Check out all 11 km of the Arbutus Greenway from False Creek to the Fraser River! (via the City of Vancouver).
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Vancouver’s “Familiar” Housing Styles: 1950s on
During the mid-century decades in Vancouver home building increased as higher levels of immigration created a need for housing. Designed for function...
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Video Vancouver: DRainscapes
This video shows how green infrastructure can improve your community. This video was funded by the: Landscape Architecture of Canada Foundation University...
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Re-Imagining Urban Form & Policy – The (Im)possibility of Design
On March 10 and 11, the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) hosted the...
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review: Streetfight—Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Authors: Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow (Viking Penguin, 2016) As New York City’s transportation commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg from...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: City of Vancouver and CP agree to creation of the Arbutus Greenway
Via: City of Vancouver, March 7 2016 “Thanks to this landmark agreement, the City will be able to transform the area into an outstanding greenway and...
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EVENTS: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11, 2016
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a...
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Museum of Vancouver Launches Your Future Home: Creating The New Vancouver
Following last week’s Vancouver Debates #1 kick off event at the Museum of Vancouver, visitors where invited to the launch of the Your Future Home...
By Ulduz Maschaykh