Book Review: Block by Block

Not another Jane Jacobs review.  Unfortunately yes.  If you are reading this blog, chances are high that you have a dog-eaten copy of Death & Life...

October 4, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Read the Insite ruling for yourself [Vancouver Courier] • Union urges Vancouver mayors to accept gas taxes to pay for more transit [Vancouver Sun...

Release: Incubating Talent – City to Award Four Artist Live/Work Studios

Initiated in 1996, the City of Vancouver Artist Live/Work Studio Program now numbers four purpose built artist live/work studios awarded to local artists...

Hastings Street: The Pulse of a Community

Downtown Eastside has come to be known as “Canada’s Poorest Postal Code”.  The area radiating from the intersection at Main and Hastings has gained...

Price Points: Facelift

Where is it, and what is it? This is Yaletown Park (see map), and the sculture is Eros Bendato Scrippolato (Eros blindfolded and cracked) by Igor...

October 3, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Glittering Vancouver is now the poverty capital of Canada [Crosscut] • Anton vows review of new bike lanes if elected [Vancouver Sun...

October 2, 2011 Headlines

INTERNATIONAL • Suburbanization of Poverty: What’s New? [Pedestrian Observations] • Radical Post Modernism [Strange Harvest]

October 1, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Crowd gathered at Insite cheers legal victory [Vancouver Courier] • Site next to BC Place a ‘limbo zone’ [Globe and Mail] • Election website...

Spacing Saturday: Infrastructure, Cycling and Intensification

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

September 30, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Anton promises to keep Hornby bike lane [Vancouver Courier] •  Vancouver Biennale wants to keep more sculptures in the city long term [OpenFile] �...

Video Vancouver: What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.