-
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...
By Yuri Artibise -
VancouverSpeculations: Covered Playgrounds
http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2018/12/17/vancouverspeculations-covered-playgrounds/Covered playground concept. To enlarge the image, click here. For many...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Christopher Cheung -
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...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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...
By Spacing -
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 -
Event: ECUAD – 45th Annual Student Art Sale, Nov 23-25
45th Annual Student Art Sale When: 12- 8pm | Friday, November 23 12 – 5pm | Saturday, November 24 12 –...
By Spacing -
Event – Vancouver Public Library – morph: What Kind of City Do We Want? Plan For Change, Nov. 19th
morph: What Kind of City Do We Want? Plan For Change WHEN: Monday, November 19, 2018 (7:00 pm – 8:30 pm) WHERE: Central Library ADMISSION: Free Vancouver...
By Spacing -
So Kennedy Stewart Truly Loves ‘The Growth Side of Things’
Guest author: Patrick Condon Fresh from being elected mayor by voters deeply worried about Vancouver’s widening gap between the property rich and everyone...
By Spacing -
Dining out in the Downtown Eastside
It’s lunchtime at Main and Hastings and the people of the Downtown Eastside are looking for something to eat. “Day-old bread and doughnuts,” said James...
By Christopher Cheung -
The Changing Role of Architects in Canada – Lively Discussions at POP // CAN // CRIT 2018
The third Pop Can Crit architecture symposium, titled The Business of Architecture in Canada looked at the synergy between architecture as science...
By Ulduz Maschaykh
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered