Spacing
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Vancouver Plan – An Opportunity for Climate Input
The City of Vancouver is in the midst of the next phase of engagement for the Vancouver Plan, a planning process that will ultimately create a vision for...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
On Mobility: Subways
The Problem and Scale The International Association of Public Transport, reported 53 billion passengers relying on mass transit systems globally in 2017...
By urbanreflections -
Zoning Must Evolve – Part 2
The Aftermath – “Green Profits” Redevelopment on large post-Expo 86 sites (North Shore of False Creek and Coal Harbor), the let go...
By scothein -
Writing Vancouver: ‘Starting Over’ – Part Three
‘Starting Over’ Part Three: Zoning Out Manipulation is needed to move the gears, but not everything runs on the same track. Recovering from...
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Writing Vancouver: ‘Starting Over’ – Part Two
‘Starting Over’ Part Two: Self Knowledge There was a commonwealth in understanding the city as a shared resource. It was shared by those who...
By grahammcgarva -
Writing Vancouver: ‘Starting Over’ – A Personal Memoir in Search of the Future – Part 1
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Spacing Vancouver is excited to kick off this 3-Part poetic memoir by Graham McGarva. As founder of Baker McGarva Hart / VIA...
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Podcast: COVID Reflections
It is safe to say that it’s been a wild few months. And now, after two months of strict social distancing here in Canada, many provinces are starting to...
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Book Review: Trains, Buses People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit
Author: Christof Spieler (Island Press, 2018) Christof Spieler’s Trains, Buses, People – An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit is a refreshing look at...
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Release: UBC study highlights need to improve health care access in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle
UBC researchers have developed a data science method that analyzes how easily citizens can access hospitals and walk-in health clinics – and it’s a tool...
By Spacing -
It’s complicated — our relationship with Instagram and nature
On a hike to Upper Joffre Lake near Pemberton this summer, I saw a dozen people frozen in the same pose. In one hand, they held out crumbs. In the other...
By Christopher Cheung -
Modernist Masterpiece: The Downs Residence
Variations of the Modern Movement in architecture which started in Europe in the 1920s can be seen across North America, and on the west coast architects...
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Event: Life Between Umbrellas Design Competition
Vancouver receives the equivalent of over five months of rainy weather a year. How can our public spaces better respond to the wet weather – and the...
By Vancouver Public Space Network