May 4, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Neighbourhood bully harms Downtown Eastside planning process [Vancouver Courier] INTERNATIONAL • What’s the Secret to World-Class Transit Systems...

City of Vancouver launches re:THINK Housing – a global ideas competition for affordable housing in Vancouver

The City of Vancouver is launching re:THINK Housing, a global ideas competition to create affordable housing solutions for Vancouver. Affordable housing...

Video Vancouver: One World Trade Center 2004-2012

Urban Planet: Mapping the World’s Road, Shipping and Air Routes

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...

TODERIAN: Discovering the worlds of Twitter and urbanism

Last week I had lunch with a friend and fellow urbanist, Bob Ransford. Lunches with Bob are never boring, as we get right into things, and often debate...

The Art of Urban Sketching: Toronto

This week, Spacing presents excerpts from The Art of Urban Sketching, the new book by Seattle-based artist and journalist Gabriel Campanario. The book...

May 3, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver’s intersection with the most bicycle-vehicle collisions [OpenFile] • BC Liberals and Bob Rennie tighten grip on housing construction in...

West Vancouver Museum: The Mill Project

You are cordially invite to the opening of the upcoming exhibition of new work from artist Bruce Emmett at the West Vancouver Museum. The Mill Project...

Friday, May 4: Architect Darryl Condon at CreativeMornings/Vancouver

On Friday May 4th, 2012, Vancouver architect Darryl Condon graces the CreativeMornings/Vancouver stage at W2 Media Cafe to speak from the perspective of a...

Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Kansas City’s Community Bookshelf

Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Parking garages usually don’t...

Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) – Part 1

[Editor’s note: We are pleased to give Spacing Vancouver reader’s a deeper look into Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS...

Vanishing Vancouver book launch etc.

Michael Kluckner’s Vanishing Vancouver book launch is taking place this Thursday, May 3rd, at 7 pm at the Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Drive...