Infrastructure

Introducing Park-A-Park: Vancouver’s Recently Launched Mobile Parklet

If you’ve visited Vancouver’s Commercial Drive recently, and walked by the southwest corner where East 1st Avenue crosses The Drive, you may have caught...

The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 1

The post-WWII North American cities saw a decentralization of the Central Business District (CBD). This, in turn, saw an increase of private automobile...

Video Vancouver: ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ Earth Animation

This is the animation done by Globaïa for the short film ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ commissionned for the Planet Under Pressure conference...

Smart Cities, Technology, and Open Everything—August 8

Via Museum of Vancouver. Special Guest Speaker: Evgeny Morozov With Discussants: David Ascher (Mozilla Foundation), Andrea Reimer (Councillor, City of...

City Conversations: Development, Density, Dollars: What do residents get?, August 1, 2013

Via SFU City Conversations: A regularly-heard Vancouver refrain is that greedy developers are destroying our city’s vaunted quality of life, and that...

Cartographically Speaking – Safety in Numbers: Why a Bike Lane in Kitsilano?

By Jen Cook & Holly Foxcroft In the heart of Kitsilano, a rumbling started to occur in reaction to the city project to create a safe link between the...

Video Vancouver: The City of Samba

Tilt shift of the Carnaval party in Rio de Janeiro.

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Lions Gate Bridge

Video Vancouver: SkyTrain – SkyWay

To 27 years of service. Here’s to another 27 more.

PARKit Design Challenge

This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...

Congrats Spacing Vancouver Ironclad Art finalists!

We’re happy to congratulate the Spacing Vancouver team of Caroline Toth, Brendan Hurley, and Erick Villagomez whose submission above was chosen as...

Video Vancouver: PWL Partnership – Our Story in Film

A video that captures our over 3 decades of the PWL Partnership‘s work contributing to the development of some of Vancouver’s great public...