January 7, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Volunteer, Damn It! [Price Tags] • Neighbourhood haunt closing its doors [Vancouver Courier] • Vancouver Street Tree Dudes [Vancouver is Awesome...

Spacing Saturday: Optimism, Falling Crime Rates and the Vancouver Special

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Predicting that...

Release: Canadian Association of Planning Students 2012 Conference and AGM

PLANNING HORIZONS:The Edge, Future, and Potential of Planning Canadian Association of Planning Students 2012 Conference and AGM DATES: February 2nd â€...

January 6, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • InRoads: Vancouver and the Insatiable Auto (1) [Price Tags] • Cambie Corridor plans puts Vancouverism to the test [Globe and Mail] • Sculpturesâ€...

Video Vancouver: A year of photos

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Between 10:00am and 1:00pm PST today (January 5th),  Tofino will be testing their new...

January 5, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Charting the path from stovetop to fuel tank [Globe and Mail] • Vancouver neighbourhood builds new identity as creative industry powerhouse...

January Urbanist Meetup, Sunday, January 8, 3pm-5pm

Come kick off the new year with me and your fellow urban wonks at the fist urbanists meetup of 2012! We’ll be meeting this coming Sunday (January...

World Wide Wednesday: Ghettos, hospitals and green zoning

Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...

January 4, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Mapnificent! No, really, MAPnificent [Green Growth Cascadia] • Urban farmers hope to grow in school district [Vancouver Courier] • West Side...

Release: Call for Qualifications: Public Art: “Balance”

Call for Qualifications: Public Art: “Balance” Westminster Savings Credit Union (224 Street & Lougheed Highway) Maple Ridge, British...

Book Review – From The Stacks: Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America

Author: Alan Berger (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Waste. We are all familiar with it. We deal with it daily when we throw away of the vast...