September 13, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Colony Farm agricultural academy plan goes to committee despite objections [Vancouver Sun] • Walk This Way: Comox-Helmcken Greenway [Price Tags...

Urban Cartography – A public course at Emily Carr University of Art + Design

This fall, Spacing contributor Laura Kozak will be teaching Urban Cartography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design . Learn to critically read and...

A Brighter Future with Cities: Review of Scientific American special edition

Following the UN declaration in 2008 that the majority of people now live in cities, there has been an explosion of city-themed commentary in magazines...

Price Points: Gathering Space

What’s happening here? A concert, yes?  In this case, MexicoFest.   And the singers were pulling out all the old chestnuts – Mexican songs...

September 12, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Transit advocates launch campaign for property-tax hike [Globe and Mail] CANADA • Using Twitter to Encourage Engagement in Urban History [This Big...

Release: Heritage Vancouver presents – A Planning Tour of Vancouver’s West End

Join Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, for a planning tour of Vancouver’s West End. The West End reveals about eight different...

Release: Ecce Homo by Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger launches September 12

Ecce Homo by Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger will be installed on the west wall of the Canada Line at Vancouver City Centre Station on September 12...

September 11, 2011 Headlines

CANADA • Light Shower Towers: Toronto’s new park attempts to bring water back into the public realm [Water Canada] INTERNATIONAL • Vycon Plans to...

September 10, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver Gets Parklets [THE DIRT] • Appliance ‘art’ irks Vancouver resident [Vancouver Courier] • Metro Vancouver board appears poised to ban...

September 9, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • New ways to find your way: An interview about TransLink’s new transportation wayfinding strategy [The Buzzer Blog] • Home, Home on the Lane...

Video Vancouver: Transportation Planning and Climate Change

RELEASE: New Urban Food Scraps Collection Project Gets Off to a Soaring Start

In just four weeks, the Food Scraps Drop Spot has diverted almost 3,000 pounds of food scraps from the landfill. Since August 13th, residents of...