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Vancouver Winter
White out conditions, Vancouver, BC / Photo by Byron Barrett Contribute photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool
By Julie Fish -
Rewilding a City
As a relatively young, modern city nestled between the North Shore mountains and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, it is not hard to imagine Vancouver’s...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • Farmland protection isn’t always a benefit to farmers [Globe and Mail] • Former Van Foundation leader becomes interim chair for PHS: “Preserve...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Weekend
LOCAL • The new PHS board and agenda of its first meeting [State of Vancouver] • The world’s biggest incinerator debacles. Could it happen to Metro...
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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...
By Spacing -
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
By Julie Fish -
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...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered