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...

The Aging City

The city is thousands of years old and, over this time, humans have learned many lessons—often through trial-and-error—around what makes a rich...

How to Increase Cycling and Walking—Lessons from Cities Across the Globe

At his recent lecture at Simon Fraser University, John Pucher of Rutgers University documented the boom in cycling in both European and North American...