Streetscape
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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...
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HVS Walking Tour: Granville Street’s 800 to 1200 Blocks, July 20th
Location: Meet outside Starbuck’s Coffee at Georgia & Granville (next to London Drugs). Time: Saturday, July 20th 10am – 12 pm Admission: $15.00...
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Video Vancouver: SkyTrain – SkyWay
To 27 years of service. Here’s to another 27 more.
By Caroline Toth -
Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Invitation to Save On Meats
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PARKit Design Challenge
This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...
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Video Vancouver: Tokyo in Timelapse
Tokyo is a perfect city for shooting timelapse. This clip was shot in a period of about 3 weeks durring February 2012, and entirely with a Canon 5D mk2.
By Caroline Toth -
Congrats Spacing Vancouver Ironclad Art finalists!
We’re happy to congratulate the Spacing Vancouver team of Caroline Toth, Brendan Hurley, and Erick Villagomez whose submission above was chosen as...
By Spacing -
Studies on the West End – Connectivity/Walkability/Sense of Community
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam
Think of this Streetfacts chapter as a PSA about how, in just a few generations, we have tightly restricted American kids’ freedom to roam, play...
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Video Vancouver: PWL Partnership – Our Story in Film
A video that captures our over 3 decades of the PWL Partnership‘s work contributing to the development of some of Vancouver’s great public...
By Caroline Toth -
Be an Urban Explorer in Your Own Town
VHF would like to thank this weeks’ guest writer, Karen Russell – Urban Planner. Have you ever walked through a residential neighbourhood...
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Video Vancouver: A Bicycle Ride-the long version
Shot with a Braun Nizo Super 8 camera mounted on a bicycle. The camera had an intervalometer so it automatically shot a frame of film every so many...
By Caroline Toth