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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • Province softens stance on timing of transit referendum [Globe and Mail] • Vancouver agents, builders greet signs of a rebound with glee [Globe...
By Tessa Holloway -
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...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
LOCAL • Vancouver non-profits caught in rent squeeze [Globe and Mail] • Delta asks for Terminal 2 environmental review [Globe and Mail] • Vancouver...
By Tessa Holloway -
Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • This Week: Images of Pittsburgh – 1 [Price Tags] • Mayor plans trade mission to Far East, even though UBC study suggests these junkets don’t...
By Tessa Holloway -
Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • Generation Rent: The Secret to a Great Rental Home [The Tyee] • Developing a homeless transit plan for Vancouver [Vancouver Observer] â€...
By Tessa Holloway -
Housing meets the Sharing Economy – NEXT TUESDAY!
The Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) is hosting a storytelling night on Housing and the Sharing Economy. Don’t miss out this event next...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • Delta’s real-estate market could be set to boom [Georgia Straight] • British Columbia’s Traffic Delusion [Sightline Daily] • Concord Pacific...
By Spacing -
LOHA Housing + Sharing Storytelling Event, Oct 22nd
SHARING is a hot topic these days! Think of the way companies like Car2Go, Airbnb, Grupon and Kickstarter are changing how we live, work, move and spend...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
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...
By Kathleen Corey -
Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • Alder and West 6th Avenue [Changing Vancouver] • Zoning proposals in Vancouver spark city hall protest [Globe and Mail] • On the Massey: Tolls...
By Tessa Holloway -
Park(ING) Day 2013 in Vancouver
It’s international Park(ing) Day around the world. September 20th is a day where artists, designers and citizens formally and informally transform...
By Brendan Hurley -
Booming Vancouver: The Beginning of the Vancouver Special
Much of Vancouver has been shaped by periodic large influxes of residents, resulting in major housing booms. Much like today with the on going...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation