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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • Metro Vancouver malls go al fresco (with video) [Vancouver Sun] • Plans to transform Vancouver mansion into care home to go to public hearing...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • Vancouver reveals $1-billion plan for Downtown Eastside revival [Globe and Mail] • Mode share [Stephen Rees’s Blog] • HandyDART Trip Denials...
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Conserving Heritage through Re-imagining of Space
In the conservation tool kit, heritage enthusiasts have several methods to support the preservation of historic spaces. Preserving ‘as-is, where-is’ can...
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City of Surrey 2014 PARKit Design Challenge
The City of Surrey is pleased to announce the return of our pop-up park design-build competition, the 2014 PARKit Design Challenge. Individuals and groups...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
LOCAL • Stone agrees to add tolls, fees to transit ballot [Globe and Mail] • Fare gate in action at Sapperton Station [Buzzer Blog] • “No pipelinesâ€...
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Book Review – Jane’s Walk Annual: Volume One
“This book is about what can happen when people get together and go for a walk. In Guadalajara, they made a citizen’s crosswalk by tracking paint...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts make heavy bet on new downtown — but it won’t come instantly [State of Vancouver] • J.B. MacKinnon explores his...
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EVENT: SFU Urban Studies – Rethinking the Region seeks local perspective
What: Rethinking the Region workshop Where: SFU’s Surrey campus, 250-13450 102nd Ave, Surrey, room 5240 When: March 1, 2014, 8:30 a.m–3 p.m. A daylong...
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Dark Alley
Back alley, Vancouver, BC / By Byron Barrett Contribute photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool
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Cartographically Speaking – British Columbia as Westeros
For an enlarged version of the map click here Fantasy fiction mostly takes place is vast and fantastical imaginary geographies. The settings of these...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • The village at Ladner [Fraseropolis] • Pete McMartin: Coffee and cannabis, a clash of manners on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive [Vancouver Sun] â€...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Weekend
LOCAL • 529 Burrard Street [Changing Vancouver] • TransLink mayors to province: This debacle is not on us [Globe and Mail] • How green is Vancouver now...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered