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Release: Vancouver 125 wraps up with final celebrations
As the end of the year approaches, Vancouver marks the final month of its 125th anniversary celebrations and year as a Cultural Capital of Canada with a...
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We’re back!
Dear Readers, After an unexpected encounter with European hackers, Spacing Vancouver is back! It was a long week, but we took the opportunity to...
By Spacing -
December 12, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Fraser gravel mining threatens ecosystem, residents [Vancouver Sun] • Opinion: Real earnings show decades of decline in livable Vancouver...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: Call to Artists based in British Columbia, Canada
Durante Kreuk Ltd. on behalf of Cressey Development would like to announce a Limited Open Call Public Art Opportunity. Artists that are British Columbia...
By Erick Villagomez -
December 11, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • BC will have to ‘play its part’ in new Climate Change deal [Vancouver Sun] • Overlapping Maps: housing prices and politics [Price...
By Erick Villagomez -
December 10, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Green things come in small packages: City considers mini-park at Main and 18th [OpenFile] INTERNATIONAL • California population grows modestly to...
By Erick Villagomez -
December 9, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver parking tax: the biggest tax grab in North America? [OpenFile] CANADA • Massive local sculpture unveiled in Ottawa [BC Local News...
By Erick Villagomez -
December 8, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Collaborative school program builds a big table for big ideas [OpenFile] • They’re pouring pints again at the Bimini [Globe and Mail] • B.C...
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World Wide Wednesday: Digital placemaking, highway canopy, ferris wheel
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...
By Hilary Best -
December 7, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Former NPA staffer on the future of the party [OpenFile] • The Politics of Vancouver’s Homeless Shelters [The Mainlander] CANADA • Banking on...
By Erick Villagomez -
Price Points: A Golden Intersection
Where is this, and why do they call it The Golden Intersection? . . It’s Shanghai – to be specific, the view towards the meeting of the...
By Gordon Price -
Toward a Culture of Wood Architecture
“There needs to be a strategic rethinking of how we design buildings in order to maximize the value of the materials and...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered