Infrastructure
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EVENT: Interactive Feature under Cambie Bridge, Aug 15-Sept 24
UNINTERRUPTED takes audiences on the extraordinary journey of Pacific salmon by projecting breathtaking cinematography right across False Creek, five...
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Book Review From the Stacks – Pamphlet Architecture 31: Coupling
The Pamphlet Architecture series has been a powerful amplifier and launch pad for some of the most remarkable architects currently on stage. The chance to...
By Joshua Jordan -
Video Vancouver: Transform Your City With Tactical Urbanism
Via Streetsfilms: If you’re a public space aficionado or transportation maven, one only needs to sign on to one of the various social media feeds to...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Happy Streets Living Labs
What is Happy Streets Living Lab? Join Happy Streets participant Amanda Leahy as she describes the experiment and how the different setting influenced her...
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: Kickstarter Pledges Bring Vancouver’s Ackery’s Alley to Life
Following a 30-day Kickstarter campaign, More Awesome Now, creators of Vancouver’s first reimagined laneway, Alley-Oop, have achieved the funding needed...
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Book Review From the Stacks: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation...
By Laura Kozak -
Visual Thoughts #63
Last VT image: Homes at Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site in Steveston, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing...
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EVENT: Jane’s Walk, Burnabyism: Envisioning 52,600 people in Brentwood
Burnabyism: Envisioning 52,600 people in Brentwood (Gilmore SkyTrain Station) WHEN: May 6, 2017, 2:30 PM, LENGTH: 2 Hours About This Walk The population...
By Spacing -
Release: REFBC Building Change report released
People live in places. The places that we build – small towns, communities, cities, suburbs – all have impacts on our environment and on shared resources...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Symptoms of Congestion
Via the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation: Congestion is a pain for commuters across Metro Vancouver every day. The good news is: There is a...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: UnGapTheMap
Via Hub Cycling: Find out why we’re working to UnGapTheMap in Metro Vancouver and make cycling safer for all. This video was produced with the kind...
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review—Palazzos of Power: Central Stations of the Philadelphia Electric Company, 1900-1930
Author: Joseph E. Elliott and Aaron V. Wunsch (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) “If it isn’t Electric, it isn’t Modern” proclaimed the Philadelphia...
By Alix Krahn