Urban Design
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Video Vancouver: What is Zoning?
Produced by the City of Vancouver Regulation Redesign Project Team
By Yuri Artibise -
SURVEY: What were Vancouver’s Planning & Development Milestones of 2018?
As 2018 draws to a close, the Vancouver City Planning Commission (VCPC) Chronology Program is embarking on our annual retrospective of planning and...
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Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more than any inhabitant can...
By Erick Villagomez -
VancouverSpeculations: Covered Playgrounds
http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2018/12/17/vancouverspeculations-covered-playgrounds/Covered playground concept. To enlarge the image, click here. For many...
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A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’
On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set up a bench and a...
By Christopher Cheung -
Do Small in a Big Way: BC Housing Society’s first annual Summit
It’s not a movement about people claiming to be ‘tinier than thou’ but rather people making their own choices toward simpler and smaller living however...
By Sean Ruthen -
Ten Ways We’ll Fight for a Better Vancouver
Guest Authors: Christine Boyle and Khelsilem With few incumbents re-elected to city council, there’s an opportunity to transform Vancouver into the...
By Spacing -
Event – Vancouver Public Library – morph: What Kind of City Do We Want? Plan For Change, Nov. 19th
morph: What Kind of City Do We Want? Plan For Change WHEN: Monday, November 19, 2018 (7:00 pm – 8:30 pm) WHERE: Central Library ADMISSION: Free Vancouver...
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VancouverSpeculations: Commercial Dr./Kanaalstraat
Diversifying transportation options is one of the most pressing issues in urban planning and design circles—the creation and implementation of complete...
By Erick Villagomez -
VancouverSpeculations: Beginnings
‘Speculation’ is one of the most suspect words in urban planning and development conversations. With its contemporary economic underpinnings, it beats...
By Erick Villagomez -
Listen to the Cucumber Part II: Theory to Practice
A selected writing from the cognizant Oscar Woodbead. It brings me tremendous pleasure to announce that as a result of my previous article that discussed...
By Sean Bailey -
EVENT: Heritage Vancouver Society -Conversation #2: Change in Living Communities – False Creek South, Oct 11th
Shaping Vancouver 2018: Contested Places Conversation #2: Change in Living Communities – False Creek South WHEN: Thursday, October 11, 2018 –...
By Spacing