Neighbourhoods

Cartographically Speaking: Mapping Neighbourhood Character Buildings

The buildings in a city give it character and form. They stand as the structures that produce personal recollections of a streets and neighbourhoods. In...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Mission council officially adopted the Downtown Action Plan and approved certain parking...

Cartographically Speaking: Commercial Drive Business Development,1900-1999

Those who have followed my cartographic adventures, know that I consider graphs, charts, diagrams, etc. an extension of mapping. Edward Tufte uses the...

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: First Gas Station Invitation

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Kinder Morgan has released a video flyover depicting an aerial view of the study...

Earthwalks Vancouver 2013—June and July 2013

Back by popular demand!  False Creek Watershed Society has partnered with Village Vancouver to offer a series of “Earth Walks”. We live in the city of...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Gyro Park could be unrecognizable in the coming years, as Saanich parks planners are...

PARKit Design Challenge

This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. An annual arts festival expected to attract up to 200,000 people to downtown Victoria...

Release: West End BIA Launches New Brand

New branding puts the “WE” in West End – creating a powerful, unique and unifying identity for the business community. The West End Business Improvement...

Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Places That Matter- The Stumps at Maple Grove Park

Fork in the Road: Glenburn Soda Fountain and Confectionary

Burnaby Heights is an interesting and often overlooked neighbourhood. One of Vancouver’s original streetcar suburbs, the Heights is home to quiet...