Call to Artists: Riverport Flats, City of Richmond

Call to Artists: Riverport Flats, City of Richmond British Columbia, Canada Budget: Total Budget for all selected projects is $34,600 Submission Deadline...

Urban Planet: Computer Alerts in the Urban Environment

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...

Visual Thoughts #5

Last VT image: Landscape in Varadero, Cuba. *** Matthew Roddis is an urban designer with the City of Vancouver’s Urban Design Studio, involved in a number...

Video Vancouver: BB interview med Brent Toderian

July 5, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Seawall proposed to link Kitsilano and Jericho beaches (with video) [Vancouver Sun] • The Interactive BC Carbon Map [The Tyee] • Vancouver park...

Release: Redefine Vancouver? Three Generations of City Planners Tell Us What They Really Think

The Urban Land Institute British Columbia is pleased to present this tenth installment in ‘The City in 2050‘ series on July 11, 2012. Join...

Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Slime mold maps out Tokyo’s rail system

Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. In one of the weirdest Weird...

Velo-city 2012 Review Part 1: The Elephant in the Room and The Bull in the China Shop

[Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series looking at some of the interesting issues that were discussed at the Velo-city Conference...

July Urbanist Meetup, Sunday, July 8th, 3pm-5pm

It’s the first week of July (Happy belated Canada Day!), and that means it’s time to start thinking about the next Vancouver Urbanist Meetup! This month...

July 4, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Strathcona residents push for traffic calming on Prior St. [OpenFile] • High-rise development aims to make Kingsway a residential hotspot...

Spacing releases War of 1812 fridge magnets

Spacing has long been a supporter of Canada’s historic sites in our large urban centres. 200 years ago, our country was forever changed during the...

Re:THINK Reveal reminder!

Spacing Magazine, Vancouver Public Space Network, Gen Why Media and the City of Vancouver are unveiling the entries to the re:THINK HOUSING ideas...