November 18, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Why you should vote [Vancouver Courier] • Small quake rattles B.C.’s Okanagan [Globe and Mail] • Vancouver Civic Election Endorsements [The...

Release: City of Surrey Call to Artists – Street Banner Design

Call to Artists – Street Banner Design City of Surrey Deadline for Submissions: December 12, 2011, 4 pm. Award to Selected Artist: $2,500 Open to all BC...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Four months after Brenda Patterson first approached Port Alberni City Council about...

Occupy D.C.’s urban design [Washington Post]

November 17, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Surrey mayor wants more dredging to facilitate the Fraser as a marine highway [Vancouver Sun] • Numbers: Metro responds [Price Tags] • Carline...

World Wide Wednesday: Avenue towards heaven, biking broadway

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...

November 16, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver’s Top Election Issues, if not Pre-Occupied [The Tyee] • Interactive map explores Vancouver’s history with images, videos and...

Release: CoV cultural spaces networking + discussion + tour

Cultural spaces are at the heart of a vibrant, liveable, creative and caring city. Often, however, they face issues of affordability, functionality...

VPSN Special Election Feature: Parks Board Candidate Survey Responses

[Editors Note: During election time, the mayoral and council races tend to get all the attention.  It is for this reason that we at Spacing Vancouver are...

Book Review – From The Stacks: Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape

Author: Brian Hayes (W.W.Norton & Company, 2006) Infrastructure is the unsung hero behind all cities – large and small.  It is every-present...

November 15, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Municipal spending grows four times faster than population [Vancouver Sun] • Schools of the Future, Today [The Tyee] • Pattullo Bridge rebuild...

Vancouver and Housing Affordability

With the Vancouver Mayoral Election heating up, one of the city’s major campaign issues has become affordable housing. Vision Vancouver is...