Urban Design
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Video Vancouver: Measuring Magic – Affection
PPS founder Fred Kent shares his insights on affection in public space, including why it matters, what to look for, and how to make it happen. Read the...
By Yuri Artibise -
The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
When experts try to explain how Vancouver’s history has impacted its housing crisis, they often point to Expo 86 as ground zero. But UBC sociologist...
By Madeleine de Trenqualye -
Book Review From the Stacks: Partnerships in Urban Property Development
Authors: Nigel Dubben and Brendan Williams (Wiley, 2009) When developments are created it is generally the property developer or perhaps the architecture...
By John Calimente -
Vancouver’s Chinatown: The Dichotomy of Past and Present – Part 2
This is the second part of Spacing Vancouver’s Ulduz Maschaykh interview with prominent Real Estate Marketer and Art Collector Bob Rennie, Vancouver...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Video Vancouver: The Right to Walk
Via Streetfilms: Every person has the right to walk. Choosing to move on foot — to work, school, or the market — should be safe and easy for urban...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Urban Planning A-Z
Via Pickled Entropy.
By Yuri Artibise -
Vancouver’s Chinatown: The Dichotomy of Past and Present – Part 1
Vancouver’s Chinatown is one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods. Initially it developed as a segregated enclave along Carrall and Pender Street...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Video Vancouver: What is Planning?
Do you ever wonder how a community just happens?…well, perhaps you’d like to know. LPPANS worked closely with PLANifax to create a video responding to the...
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: COV Northeast False Creek final plan will be going to Council, Jan. 31
The City of Vancouver has released the final plan for Northeast False Creek, which will guide the creation of a vibrant new waterfront destination. The...
By Spacing -
Vancouver’s urban agriculture movement
SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VANCOUVER: GLOBALIZATION & NEOLIBERALISM While globalization has come to be a highly-circulated term...
By jaredskoreyko -
Video Vancouver: Northeast False Creek Animation
Via Joseph Hruda: Concord Pacific Waterfront Entertainment District Master Plan & Animation by: CIVITAS Urban Design & Planning, Vancouver, Canada...
By Yuri Artibise -
EVENT: Milestones 2017 — A Dialogue on Events that Changed Vancouver
The Vancouver City Planning Commission is pleased to present Milestones 2017 on February 5, 2018. Our third annual Year in Review public forum, it’s a...
By Vancouver City Planning Commission