Streetscape
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Metro Van Is Losing Trees. That Means a Hotter Future
With temperatures heating up due to climate change, tree canopies have an important role to play in shading and cooling residents. But according to new...
By Christopher Cheung -
A View to A Kill
What is the true value of a view? This question should be top of mind among all Vancouverites as the City of Vancouver Council considers removing the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Millennial architects redefine Canadian dream of homeownership
Affordability, climate change, and thriving communal spaces are prevalent themes of mainstream policy talk amid Vancouver’s exacerbated housing...
By saramansour -
S101S – Understanding Shadow Studies: Why They Matter
Shadow studies often get lost amid the seemingly more pressing issues related to current urban planning and design. However, the relevance of shadow...
By Erick Villagomez -
How Rainways Could Restore ‘Raincouver’
They buried the creek under St. George Street to make room for roads and houses. Little waterways like it, fed by rainwater, were once everywhere in...
By Christopher Cheung -
S101S: Explaining Transit-Oriented Development: Benefits and Drawbacks
What is Transit-Oriented Development and what are its benefits and drawbacks? Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has become so common within urban...
By Erick Villagomez -
S101S—Understanding Residential Density: FSR, Building Setbacks and Height Regulations
What is Floor Space Ratio (FSR) and how does it interact with building setbacks and height regulations to create building forms and the ‘look and feel’ of...
By Erick Villagomez -
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 -
Book review: DIY City
Author: Hank Dittmar (Island Press, 2020) DIY, or “do-it-yourself,” as it relates to urban planning, most easily evokes images of colourful...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
S101 Series: Introduction and Call
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: cities are complex. But that doesn’t mean they need to be complicated. Complexity refers to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Broadway Plan Reflections
This piece started with a simple aspiration: to collect a diversity of meaningful 100-200 word reflections on Broadway Plan processes and outcomes...
By Erick Villagomez -
Vancouver’s Dramatic New Plan for Broadway: Five Questions
The City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan has been released for public comment and is full of dramatic proposals. Profusely illustrated, over 100 pages long...
By Patrick Condon