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V6A: Decoding The Downtown Eastside with Poetry and Prose
When journalists toss around mentions of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, they rarely go without immediately noting that it is “Canada’s poorest postal...
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Price Points: Tale of a Tile
What’s the story behind those blue tiles? And where is this building? Vancouverites of a certain age (i.e. mine) might recognize both the...
By Gordon Price -
May 7, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Sky-high housing prices in Vancouver’s west side short-lived [Globe and Mail] • Looking at Trees [What Floats to the Top of My Desk...
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May 6, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • 2012 Top Ten Endangered Sites [Heritage Vancouver] • The subtle charms of downtown Maple Ridge [Fraseropolis] INTERNATIONAL • Pixelizing Dutch...
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May 5, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Oil threatens culture and wildlife in Gitga’at Nation’s remote and beautiful territory [Vancouver Observer] • Saturday Supermoon over...
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Release: CityStudio Students Attend to Vancouver Orphaned Spaces
The City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) announced today that students from CityStudio have undertaken work on an innovative...
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Find the Plaques to Make History
Guest Feature by Michael Klassen There’s evidence that our community connections are made more tenuous by modern urban living. There was a time when...
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Urban Planet: Changing Fault in Traffic Accidents
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...
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SPRE Hot Topics: A Question of Real Estate
Does your not-for-profit organization currently own property or a building that you don’t think is fully meeting your needs? Do you think your...
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Sim City: Fire!
A fire broke out in Spacington. In fact, two fires broke out in the little city this week. There has been a couple close calls with fire before but this...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Construction is heating up to complete the 9.3 kilometre bike/pedestrian loop around...
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The Art of Urban Sketching: Victoria
This week, Spacing presents excerpts from The Art of Urban Sketching, the new book by Seattle-based artist and journalist Gabriel Campanario. The book...
By Noah van der Laan
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered