Streetscape

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...

Video Vancouver: Time lapse sunrise from Granville Island

Sun rise time lapse of false creek.

Video Vancouver: View Finder

Here is a worst case scenario if Vancouver keeps chipping away at its iconic mountain views. -Rob Howatson

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...

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...

Video Vancouver: SkyTrain – SkyWay

To 27 years of service. Here’s to another 27 more.

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Invitation to Save On Meats

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...