Translink Seeking 5,000 Compass Card Beta Testers

As Translink prepares to launch Compass—its region-wide transit fare card—later this year, they are looking for 5,000 regular transit users to help test...

Cartographically Speaking: Vancouver Building Footprints

My sincerest apologies to all the map- and info-geeks out there that have followed Cartographically Speaking over the years and have had to endure the...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. With the idea for some form of regional amalgamation on the minds of many, the City...

Designing More Usable, Accessible and Intuitive Community Plans: July 18, 2013

How can you create usable, intuitive and accessible plans that don’t sit on the shelf and get ignored and at worst, create confusion and instead...

Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday

LOCAL • Bike Funding Solution – Share the Wealth [Metro 604] • Guest post by Voony: Vancouver’s war on buses [State of Vancouver] • Madrid: The city that...

Video Vancouver: Tweet City

What if London’s buildings grew according to the amount of data they generate? The video below is the first step in an approach to visualising an...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Lions Gate Bridge

July Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, July 14, 2013, 3pm-6pm

For July’s Vancouver Urbanist Meetup we are going to switch things up a bit. Instead of heading another pub, this month, Vancouver urbanist...

Video Vancouver: Hyper Drive

PHOTO: Hawthorne Park

Public Art, Surrey / By Waferboard Contribute photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool

Upcycled Urbanism on Granville: July 13, 2013

(Via Museum of Vancouver) Help transform Granville Street on Saturday, July 13, 2013! Upcycled Urbanism is a participatory project that invites...

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...