Neighbourhoods
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Walking Portland
When one types “Portland CBD” in a search engine, one would expect articles and publications on the metropolitan’s newly thriving Central Business...
By Brittany Lee -
Vote for Your Great Places in Canada
What is your favourite place in Canada? The Canadian Institute of Planners is once again hosting their Great Places in Canada competition. The annual...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: VIVA Vancouver Photo Contest – One More Prize to Give Away!
VIVA Vancouver (#VivaVan) is the City of Vancouver’s public space program that turns road spaces into people places, with several big summer activations...
By Spacing -
Commercial Drive Parklet – Open for your enjoyment!
There is a new public space installation in front of Prado Café on the corner of Commercial Drive and 4th Avenue available for your enjoyment! The...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Events: 5th Annual Autumn Shift Festival & 4th Annual Smoking Sausage BBQ Cook-Off, Mount Pleasant BIA
On Sunday, September 14th the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area will host the 5th Annual Autumn Shift Festival and 4th Annual Smoking Sausage BBQ...
By Spacing -
Living History: An Interview with Eve Lazarus
Many people live by the idea that understanding the past is critical to understanding the present, and planning for the future. Yet, at a time obsessed...
By Erick Villagomez -
Video Vancouver: There Goes the Gayborhood
There Goes the Gayborhood is a new book by Amin Ghaziani that explores how and why gay neighborhoods are changing.
By Yuri Artibise -
How to Throw a Block Party in Vancouver
[Author’s Note: Summer is the perfect time to get outside and get to know your neighbours. The Vancouver Public Space Network published this...
By Jillian Glover -
Vancouver Tour has a Musqueam Perspective
The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is piloting a project with the Musqueam Indian Band to offer a tour of Vancouver from a slightly different perspective...
By Eve Lazarus -
BOOK REVIEW – Socially Restorative Urbanism: The theory, process and practice of Experiemics
Authors: Kevin Thwaites, Alice Mathers, Ian Simkins (Routledge, 2014) Over the past several decades, a number of frameworks have attempted to reshape the...
By Pietra Basilij -
Cartographically Speaking: Vancouver’s West End
Click here to see a larger image. Adam Naamani’s recent piece on the gentrification of Vancouver’s West End brought to mind some of the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Video Vancouver: Chinatown Nightlife
Submitted by Victor Ngo. After Sunset: Nightlife in Vancouver’s Chinatown Vancouver’s Chinatown has a rich history of a vibrant nightlife. During...
By Yuri Artibise