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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • PHS top executives made up to $186,000 a year, deserved it because they worked so hard, said board chair [State of Vancouver] • Are PHS social...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
LOCAL • Downtown Eastside plan “is at least a start,” say residents [State of Vancouver] • Years of tension preceded current messy situation between PHS...
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Book Review – Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer (MIT Press, 2011) This is a small book of a hundred or so pages that offers 100 bits of advice on how cities...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • Massive Oakridge redevelopment okayed by Vancouver council saying it’s the city’s green, urban future [State of Vancouver] • Heritage houses...
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The Rainblossom Project
Spanish Banks Beach, Vancouver, BC / By Stephen Rees Contribute photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool
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Cartographically Speaking – 3D Vancouver
For a larger image, click here. A few months back, I felt like experimenting with different representation methods. Inspired by one of my favorite...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • Vancouver’s future, the steady and unsteady state [Vancouver Sun] • Brentwood mall’s first tower on hold [Burnaby Now] • 500 block Seymour...
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Hay, Horseshoes, and the Blues: The Story of the Yale Hotel
Originally named the Colonial Hotel when it opened in 1889, the iconic building at the corner of Drake and Granville has been the Yale Hotel since 1907...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
LOCAL • Five-year home price trends: 2014 vs 2013 [Fraseropolis] • Lawsuit against Gregor Robertson for political gains, mayor’s lawyers argue [Globe and...
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Jane’s Walk 2014: Be a Walk Leader!
The 8th annual Jane’s Walk Festival will take place on May 2nd, 3rd & 4th in 100+ cities worldwide, including Vancouver! What is Jane’s Walk...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • The Other Side of the Beatty Bookend [Price Tags] • Robertson can’t afford to ignore city’s need for affordable housing [Business in Vancouver] ...
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RELEASE: City of Vancouver provides online updates about speaker wait times
Starting March 10th, 2014 the City of Vancouver will provide regular updates online to keep people informed on speaker wait times at Council meetings. The...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered