Norquay Park: Community by Design (or design by community?)

What makes a public park successful? Perhaps we can glimpse and answer this difficult question through looking closely at Norquay Park – one of the...

Funding SkyTrain’s Next 25 Years

TransLink formally celebrated SkyTrain’s 25th Anniversary this past week at the Edmonds Yard in Burnaby. As I listened to the speeches, I...

Price Points: Robson and Granville

What’s this about? It’s not often that I cheer the loss of another bit of Vancouver’s past.  But this block at Robson and Granville is...

August 22, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Record number of riders use TransLink in 2011 [Vancouver Sun] • TransLink outperforms Olympic year [Price Tags] INTERNATIONAL • Megabus – King of...

August 21, 2011 Headlines

INTERNATIONAL • 10 great places to explore urban neighborhoods [USA Today] • Across the Bay Area, streets are getting a makeover — with less room...

Spacing Saturday: Rental Housing, Haphazard Development and Underpass Park

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

August 20, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Heritage advocate eyes boarded-up bakery sign [Vancouver Courier] • Politics, not petition, will determine Robson Square’s future [Globe and Mail...

August 19, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Metro Vancouver facing future threat from rising sea levels [Vancouver Sun] • Local park eases the hike for disabled [Vancouver Sun] • Unchain...

Video Vancouver: Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio

Could bridge tolls solve our transit woes?

Dianne Watts said it best when she asked whether we want to become like Los Angeles. With an estimated million more people moving into the region in the...

Release: Re:Building Vancouver Explores the Connection 
Between Social Unrest and Architecture

A new exhibit at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia Gallery offers a unique perspective on social unrest: the connection between human...

August 18, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Report targets renter grievances in Vancouver neighbourhood [Vancouver Courier] • Whalley neighbourhood has fewest university degrees per capita...