Neighbourhoods
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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 -
Vancouver’s West End Gentrification
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett It’s one of the most densely...
By Adam Naamani -
Gastown 1905 to 2014
As Vancouver’s original Downtown founded in 1867, Gastown survived a period of decline and disrepair following the 1960s, today known as a tourist...
By Adam Naamani -
EVENT: Active Fiction – Intersecting public space with fiction in Riley Park, May 3-4
This weekend, on May 3rd and 4th, the Vancouver Public Space Network is presenting a preview of Active Fiction — a project at the intersection of public...
By Vancouver Public Space Network