Infrastructure

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...

Be an Urban Explorer in Your Own Town

VHF would like to thank this weeks’ guest writer, Karen Russell – Urban Planner. Have you ever walked through a residential neighbourhood...

FCM Event: Young Professionals in Municipal Government and City Building, May 31, 2013

What role can young professionals play in municipal government and city building? How can they get involved? And what are those who are already involved...

Will Vancouver Replace a Freeway with a Stroad?

Vancouver’s freeway remnants are finally due for demolition. City staff like to draw comparisons to New York’s High Line and Seoul’s famous river...

Reminder: Discovering the Real Places of the Internet on May 2nd

A reminder of this fascinating SFU City Program lecture on May 2nd. The event should appeal to a wide cross-section of Spacing readers—even those of you...

SFU City Program Lecture – Tubes and Exchanges: Discovering the Real Places of the Internet

Tubes and Exchanges: Discovering the Real Places of the Internet  DATE: May 2, 7 pm LOCATION: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver ADMISSION...

Densification, Development and Demolition: Heritage and the Three D’s

Dr. Jeff’s was a prominent Vancouver figure in the first decades of the 20th century.  He was an Alderman, the City’s Police Commissioner and the City...