Spacing Vancouver

Event: Alain Bertaud on Vancouver Salon – Sept 19th

Alain Bertaud on Vancouver DATE: Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 TIME: Dinner with Alain from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Presentation from 7:30 – 9:00 pm...

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Architecture

S101S: Explaining Transit-Oriented Development: Benefits and Drawbacks

Urban Landscape Fundamentals

By Erick Villagomez

Architecture

West Coast Modernism in LEGO: Recognizing its heritage value

Artist Paul Hetherington recreates legendary West Coast Modern style homes in LEGO, a whimsical reminder to preserve Vancouver's history

By Iris Leung

Architecture

S101S—Understanding Residential Density: FSR, Building Setbacks and Height Regulations

Urban landscape fundamentals

By Erick Villagomez

Community

Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern

Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...

By Erick Villagomez

Urban Design

Your 15-minute city is not my 15-minute city

How to put some numbers on Carlos Moreno's 15-minute City, figure out where your 15: zone is, and if you can afford to live there.

By Robert Turner

Architecture

Talking Landscape Architecture: An Interview with Marc Treib

Anne Whiston Spirn once described landscape as “...a language derived from the core activity of landscape architecture: artfully shaping, from...

By Erick Villagomez

Community

Ken Sim’s Swagger and the Language of Inequality

swagger noun plural swaggers : an arrogantly self-confident way of walking: an act or instance of swaggering : arrogant or conceitedly self-assured...

By Erick Villagomez

Architecture

Vancouver ™

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Reinier de Graaf’s recently published book, Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building...

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Events

Event – On The Boards: Alyssa Schwann + Laura Killam, April 4th

ON THE BOARDS: ALYSSA SCHWANN + LAURA KILLAM (Presented by the West Coast Modern League) TUES, APRIL 4, 2023 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm Hosted by Inform...

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Community

S101S – Understanding Density: Net vs. Gross Density

Urban landscape fundamentals

By Erick Villagomez

Community

Video Vancouver: A Virtual Bike Tour of Vancouver’s Waterfront

This is a virtual bike tour (video with audio) of Vancouver’s waterfront, by the City of Vancouver’s Senior Urban Designer Scot Hein with Josh Bassett for...

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