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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • Vancouver’s architecture gets a shot in the arm [Globe and Mail] • Metro Vancouver proposes paying to reserve sites for new incinerator...
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Video Vancouver: Transit
KT Nelson’s work, Transit proposes a whacky chaotic urban density, using transportation as a central working image. Transit celebrates the complex mix of...
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NFB’s Hyperlocal takes a personal look at Canada’s shifting communities
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is producing six interactive stories for Hyperlocal (nfb.ca/hyperlocal), an online collection of personal...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
LOCAL • TransLink’s year-end report shows small surplus [Vancouver Sun] • Surrey State of City Address: Dianne Watts reveals technology, health care...
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Release: Modo launches Sharing Station at the Vancouver Winter Farmers Market with local community partners, April 6
Modo The Car Co-op, Vancouver’s only locally operated, member-owned carshare, is big on sharing. And not just cars. As continuing sponsor of the Vancouver...
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Visual Thoughts #24- Massing Series
Last VT image: Barn in field north of Toronto, Ontario. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an educator...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
LOCAL • Residents say Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is a community that cares [Vancouver Sun] • Foreign workers who helped build Vancouver’s Canada...
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Video Vancouver: Sign Painters Trailer
This the official trailer for SIGN PAINTERS a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon. There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts...
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PHOTO: The Bloedel Conservatory
The Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver / By Los Paseos Contribute your photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool
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Book Review – Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
We believe that design – whether of buildings, public parks, or infrastructure – is an invaluable tool for improving lives. Torre David, with its...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • Long-shot longhouse dreams gain support [Globe and Mail] • East Vancouver residents want Prior Street to remain residential after viaducts are...
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Malls Are the New Urban
To a passerby, the construction taking place at Metrotown’s Station Square may look the same as any of the others taking place on nearby plots where...
By Zak Bennett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered