Urban Design
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Design that Challenges the Status Quo: Emily Carr’s New Master of Design Program
As an undergraduate architecture student, I once had a professor tell me that I should stop focusing so much on what my project “means” and...
By Natalia Zdaniuk -
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 -
RELEASE: Win two tickets to the Land Awards Gala, October 25 2013
Via the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia: WIN: Two tickets to the Land Awards Gala, October 25 2013 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver The...
By Yuri Artibise -
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 -
Do High-Rise Towers Destroy Community?
When I first moved into a high-rise condo tower in Downtown Vancouver several years ago, I remember my excitement at being able to enjoy great views of...
By Jillian Glover -
Experimental Urbanism
The words “experiment” and “urbanism” are rarely in the same sentence. “Experimental urbanism” even less so. A...
By Erick Villagomez -
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 -
Disasters by the Book
Would you be able to rely on your neighbors in the event an earthquake struck your home? How helpful would public institutions remain if a flood swept...
By YarOn Stern -
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 -
Northeast False Creek & Eastern Core Consultation Questionnaire
Via the City of Vancouver: The City of Vancouver will be undertaking two parallel planning processes for Northeast False Creek (including the viaducts...
By Yuri Artibise -
Gordon Price at Creative Mornings on August 2, 2013
Spacing contributor Gordon Price will be speaking at the next Creative Mornings Vancouver on August 2, 2013. CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Smaller House Initiative
Smaller houses on smaller lots could once again make housing affordable for young families, and at the same time provide suitable detached suites for...
By Yuri Artibise