Neighbourhoods

Jericho Beach: 1860’s onward

The Jericho Beach area has had a full history over the past century and a half, few traces of which remain today. Named for its lumber history, what is...

Video Vancouver: Gord & Len “Back and Forth”

Vancouver Cycle Chic recently featured Spacing Vancouver contributor, Gordon Price in a ‘mini-film.’  Here is what hey had to say: Getting on...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Original Border

The French Quarter Parklet — Vancouver’s newest parklet melts cycling and chocolate together at last!

The City of Vancouver has embarked on a Parklet Pilot Program, under the VIVA Vancouver program, that provides funding to interested applicants who wish...

Storage Facility Helping Vancouver’s Homeless Get Off the Streets

Imagine having to carry your belongings with you at all times. You would not be able to go to a doctor’s appointment or job interview, fill out a...

Q & A with Julien Thomas, Mastermind behind the Commercial Drive Parklet

Last week Spacing wrote about a new public space project to land on Commercial Drive in 2014. The project titled Commercial Drive Parklet  (CDP) is one of...

Looking at Housing + Sharing

In late October, the Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) held an introspective event on Housing and Sharing at the Lost and Found Cafe in...

Support a new public space in Commercial Drive!

There is an exciting project coming to Commercial Drive on 2014! The Commercial Drive Parklet is one of the selected projects from VIVA Vancouver’s...

Cartographically Speaking: Variation in Food Access for Vancouver Neighbourhoods

For a larger image, click here. In the sunshine summer of 2013, I was summoned by my professor and given an interesting task: to roam the supermarkets and...

Generation Rent: San Francisco’s Citizen Tenants

[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq is now emphatically aware of Kamloops...

West End draft community plan is online

The City of Vancouver’s draft community plan for the West End is now online. The plan sketches out a direction for the neighbourhood over the next 30...