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Spacing Saturday: Toronto Portlands, Quartier des Spectacles and Collecting Scraps
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. As cities around...
By Marcus Bowman -
Park(ing) Day!
Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...
By Hilary Best -
Release: Heritage Vancouver presents – A Planning Tour of Vancouver’s West End
Join Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, for a planning tour of Vancouver’s West End. The West End reveals about eight different...
By Erick Villagomez -
RELEASE: New Urban Food Scraps Collection Project Gets Off to a Soaring Start
In just four weeks, the Food Scraps Drop Spot has diverted almost 3,000 pounds of food scraps from the landfill. Since August 13th, residents of...
By Erick Villagomez -
Price Points: Cultural Centre
What’s this about? . You’d know if you were part of the South Asian community, familiar with the Newton area of Surrey. In fact, you might...
By Gordon Price -
Spacing Saturday: Suburban Transit, Gentrification Agents and Neighbourhood Watch
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Vancouver’s...
By Marcus Bowman -
Picnurbia/VIVA Vancouver
The HD version is highly recommended and available at its Vimeo page. *** Granville Street, despite heavy foot traffic provided by transit service, is a...
By Brian Gould -
Release: City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Call for Expressions of Interest
The City of Vancouver would like to hear from poets interested in becoming the City’s third Poet Laureate. The call for nominations and submissions...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Brian Gould -
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...
By Gordon Price -
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...
By Marcus Bowman -
Price Points: Skaters on the Seawall
WHAT’S THIS ABOUT? Just a few of the hundred or more skateboarders who were rolling towards Brockton Point on the Stanley Park Seawall (map here) to...
By Gordon Price