Streetscape
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Upcycle Urbanism: Remembering the Reinvention of Granville Street
For seven months (much longer for some), volunteers from Spacing Magazine, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Vancouver Public...
By Anya Paskovic -
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 -
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 -
Book Review – Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall
Author: Rosten Woo and Meredith Tenhoor with Damion Rich (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) Who knew that such a small and unassuming book could cut...
By Jeremy Senko -
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...
By Caroline Toth -
Video Vancouver: Gateway to Canada
http://youtu.be/OYZyqUVYaTc Victoria and Vancouver: Gateways to Canada (1936) A look at Victoria Island and its capital, followed by a visit to British...
By Caroline Toth -
Video Vancouver: Time Lapse of Midtown Manhattan
Just when you thought that time-lapse was dead, along comes this specacular tribute to NYC.
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Sounds of the City
This project, inspired by 99% Invisible is an attempt to illustrate the sounds of a city. What sounds make a city unique? What sounds are embedded in the...
By Yuri Artibise -
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...
By Liz Vossen -
Video Vancouver: Time lapse sunrise from Granville Island
Sun rise time lapse of false creek.
By Caroline Toth -
Video Vancouver: View Finder
Here is a worst case scenario if Vancouver keeps chipping away at its iconic mountain views. -Rob Howatson
By Caroline Toth -
City Pianos–Little Effort, Much Reward
Special Guest Post by Charles R. (Chuck) Wolfe. Given the right context, the simplest urban intervention enlivens public space, reaps enormous value, and...
By Spacing