Maps
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Cartography: Gregor Robertson voting percentage and dis
There were many great election-related maps being released this past week, and on the strength of many that I have created in the past, I decided to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Hastings Street: The Pulse of a Community
Downtown Eastside has come to be known as “Canada’s Poorest Postal Code”. The area radiating from the intersection at Main and Hastings has gained...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Urban Cartography – A public course at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
This fall, Spacing contributor Laura Kozak will be teaching Urban Cartography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design . Learn to critically read and...
By Laura Kozak -
Critical Mass 20th anniversary book – call for submissions
When writer and community organizer Chris Carlsson proposed that the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) start a group ride home together on the last...
By Jackie Wong -
Seeing: Arriva Ristorante Italiano – Lessons on turning corners at laneways
Walking along Commercial Drive between Graveley St. and Grant St. – one block north of 1st Ave. – one passes a relatively unassuming building...
By Erick Villagomez -
Metro Vancouver Incoming Immigrant Population from 1981 to 2006
Our country prides itself on its ethnic diversity. This goes hand-in-hand with a general openness to immigrants who bring the many wonders that their...
By Erick Villagomez -
Metro Vancouver incoming immigration population – ANIMATED
As mentioned in the last piece on the distribution of immigrant populations throughout Metro Vancouver, analysing the Census 2006 information statically...
By Erick Villagomez -
Pakistan Floods in British Columbia
We are constantly bombarded by all forms of media and information. Within this cacophonous blitz, we are – somewhat unfairly – asked to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Policy, Density and Population Distribution
To most users of the urban landscape, cities are cacophonous and chaotic entities that somehow manage to hold their daily lives together in a relatively...
By Erick Villagomez -
Water Footprint: Metro Vancouver
For a larger version click here. Water plays a central role in human culture. From its use in religious rituals to the creation of modern products the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Where are the kids? – Epilogue
At last, we’ve reached the end of our child-tracking journey. As I mentioned in the last piece, I want to end off by looking at the all of the children...
By Erick Villagomez -
Where are the kids? – Teenagers thirteen to eighteen years old
Finally, we turn our gaze to spatial distribution of the last group in our cartographic series of children in Vancouver: teenagers from thirteen to...
By Erick Villagomez