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Wild in the Streets: Vancouver Car Spaces Transforming into People Places
[Looking for Something to Do or Somewhere to Be During these Summer Weekends? Regular Spacing Contributor – Urban Designer Brendan Hurley looks at...
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August 6, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • In High Rent Cities, Vehicles Become Homes [The Tyee] INTERNATIONAL • Master Planning 7,935 Indian Cities and Towns [The Atlantic Cities] • Bring...
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August 5, 2012 Headlines
INTERNATIONAL • Number of farmers markets up almost 10 percent over the last year [Grist] • Paris to return Seine to the people with car-free riverside...
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August 4, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver bests Portland and Seattle in car-sharing [OpenFile] INTERNATIONAL • Watch the American Landscape Change as Seen from Space [Wired] â€...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Metro Vancouver politicians are being vocal about wanting the province to take more time...
By Erick Villagomez -
August 3, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • The time for ‘thin streets’ in Vancouver is now [Vancouver Courier] • NPA councillor upset over Vancouver’s $100K Olympic trip [OpenFile] â€...
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Urban Planet: Urban Maeztro’s Street Art in Tegucigalpa
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Visual Thoughts #7
Last VT image: Laneway south of Broadway and Alma , Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...
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August 2, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Former planner looks to wide Vancouver streets for housing space [Vancouver Courier] • Gastown’s “historic” 40-year-old...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That time Paris melted
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. From the “we swear it’s...
By Mike Bulko -
Transportation Transformation: Rethink and Repurpose
It is by no means a new idea that car travel and dependency is bad for the environment, health and a host of other derivatives. But as life goes on and...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
August 1, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Gastown’s cobblestones turning into asphalt patchwork [CBC] • Is this the future of the Sears building? [OpenFile] • City launches citizensâ€...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered