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...

Price Points: A Noshery

Where is this, and why is it not your average food cart? . It’s in Portland.  No surprise there, for those who have followed the migration of food...

November 14, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Transit reports on CTV Morning Live [The Buzzer Blog] • INTERVIEW | Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver’s Randy Helten [The Mainlander...