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Video Vancouver: Delft – spoor en centrum
Via small places: It’s been said that the Netherlands is both a dense country and a sprawling city, but neither is quite right. Large cities quickly...
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Video Vancouver: What is Zoning?
Produced by the City of Vancouver Regulation Redesign Project Team
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How a Smart, Progressive Property Tax Could Ease Our Housing Crisis
Guest author: Patrick Condon Does Vancouver need a new kind of tax on land? City council thinks it might, so has asked city staff to study a version put...
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SURVEY: What were Vancouver’s Planning & Development Milestones of 2018?
As 2018 draws to a close, the Vancouver City Planning Commission (VCPC) Chronology Program is embarking on our annual retrospective of planning and...
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Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more than any inhabitant can...
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Video Vancouver: Our Housing Market and Why It’s So Expensive
To get a better understanding of Vancouver’s expensive housing market, The MIX collaborated with About Here to see what the city can do to help bring down...
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VancouverSpeculations: Covered Playgrounds
http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2018/12/17/vancouverspeculations-covered-playgrounds/Covered playground concept. To enlarge the image, click here. For many...
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A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’
On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set up a bench and a...
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All about Housing: A Small Housing BC Summit and Housing Central Conference Summary
Affordable Housing has been a hot and heavy topic in Vancouver for over a decade. Between 2006 to 2016 the price of detached houses increased by 158.8...
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Do Small in a Big Way: BC Housing Society’s first annual Summit
It’s not a movement about people claiming to be ‘tinier than thou’ but rather people making their own choices toward simpler and smaller living however...
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Event: 11th Annual SCARP symposium, Mar. 1st, 2019 [Save the date!]
11th Annual SCARP Symposium [Re]present: Sharing Stories and Spaces Through Planning WHEN: Friday March 1st, 2019 WHERE: AMS Nest University of British...
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Ten Ways We’ll Fight for a Better Vancouver
Guest Authors: Christine Boyle and Khelsilem With few incumbents re-elected to city council, there’s an opportunity to transform Vancouver into the...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered