Parks

City of Surrey 2014 PARKit Design Challenge

The City of Surrey is pleased to announce the return of our pop-up park design-build competition, the 2014 PARKit Design Challenge. Individuals and groups...

Jericho Beach: 1860’s onward

The Jericho Beach area has had a full history over the past century and a half, few traces of which remain today. Named for its lumber history, what is...

Q & A with Julien Thomas, Mastermind behind the Commercial Drive Parklet

Last week Spacing wrote about a new public space project to land on Commercial Drive in 2014. The project titled Commercial Drive Parklet  (CDP) is one of...

Support a new public space in Commercial Drive!

There is an exciting project coming to Commercial Drive on 2014! The Commercial Drive Parklet is one of the selected projects from VIVA Vancouver’s...

GO PLAY IN THE STREET – The Power of PARK(ing) DAY

Public Intervention on Public Space Last Friday (September 20) a special thing happened in parking stalls on streets in many city’s across North America...

Video Vancouver: Move

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Wooden Roller Coaster & Pacific Coliseum

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Introducing Park-A-Park: Vancouver’s Recently Launched Mobile Parklet

If you’ve visited Vancouver’s Commercial Drive recently, and walked by the southwest corner where East 1st Avenue crosses The Drive, you may have caught...

HULA! : a hula hoop playground

This August, Vancouverites have an opportunity to experience the hula hoop, an exercising instrument that can be traced back to the days of antiquity, in...

“Earthwalks Vancouver” July/August/September 2013

Back by popular demand! False Creek Watershed Society has once again partnered with Village Vancouver to offer a series of “Earth Walks”. We live in the...

Cartographically Speaking: Vancouver Building Footprints

My sincerest apologies to all the map- and info-geeks out there that have followed Cartographically Speaking over the years and have had to endure the...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Lions Gate Bridge