February 12, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Builders told to adjust for rising sea levels [OpenFile] INTERNATIONAL • Designing a Fix for Housing [The New York Times] • Louis Curtiss and the...

Spacing Saturday: Ontario Place, Suburban Versailles and Imperial Kitsch

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. A forced closure of...

February 11, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver mayor tells Toronto audience about rental housing plan [Vancouver Courier] • Surrey’s East Clayton a dream community with growing pains...

Urban Planet: Demolition Dilemmas

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...

Sim City: Week One in Spacington

It’s not much of 21st century urban city yet, but in the first week of Spacington’s developments we have focused on a couple things. With...

February 10, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL Key to smart transit is data sharing, experts say at Cities Summit [Vancouver Observer] Affordabull force [Vancouver Courier] Mayors bristle over...

JP Auclair Street Segment

Urban Planet: Pedestrian Signals

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...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Longboarders are not very happy in the District of North Vancouver with proposed changes...

February Urbanist Meetup, Sunday, February 12, 3pm-5pm

After a loooong and busy January, February is here and it’s time for the monthly Vancouver Urbanists Meetup. This month we’ll be meeting on...

February 9, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver School Board backs province-wide cycling education [Vancouver Courier] • Black history month a time to remember Joe Fortes [Globe and...

Urban Planet: Walking, talking and texting

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...