Neighbourhoods
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Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern
Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...
By Erick Villagomez -
Your 15-minute city is not my 15-minute city
Carlos Moreno’s “15-minute city” has been promoted by many city mayors around the world – perhaps most famously Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo. In...
By Robert Turner -
Ken Sim’s Swagger and the Language of Inequality
swagger noun plural swaggers : an arrogantly self-confident way of walking: an act or instance of swaggering : arrogant or conceitedly self-assured...
By Erick Villagomez -
Vancouver ™
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Reinier de Graaf’s recently published book, Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building...
By Spacing -
In Chinatown, Precious Few Places for Seniors to Live
A new report sounds the alarm on the housing crisis for immigrant seniors in and around Vancouver’s Chinatown. Many seniors expect to live out the...
By Christopher Cheung -
Book review: DIY City
Author: Hank Dittmar (Island Press, 2020) DIY, or “do-it-yourself,” as it relates to urban planning, most easily evokes images of colourful...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
S101 Series: Introduction and Call
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated. Complexity refers to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Digging Into Where The Sun Needs Shine – BROADWAY PLAN – Part 2
Expand upon our embedded assets This lyric essay digs inside the psyche of planning processes. It uses the oblique projection of poetry to throw light on...
By grahammcgarva -
EVENT: Gentle Density Local Leaders’ Summit, Nov 22-23
Registration closes November 15th Cost: FREE. Register at Eventbrite! It’s time to explore a more coordinated approach to gentle-density housing in BC...
By Spacing -
Broadway & Vancouver Plans: A Rejection of Core Vancouver Planning Principles?
Author: Ralph Segal With the City’s current Zoning Map as an initial regulatory reference, Vancouver’s contemporary approach to planning, urban design...
By Spacing -
The Tower Default – Pt 2
In 1972, Leslie Martin and Lionel March published Urban Space and Structure—an influential book featuring a series of essays written in the late 60s...
By Erick Villagomez -
Broadway Plan Reflections
This piece started with a simple aspiration: to collect a diversity of meaningful 100-200 word reflections on Broadway Plan processes and outcomes...
By Erick Villagomez