Urban Design
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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...
By Yuri Artibise -
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 -
Upcycle Urbanism Team Day – March 25
Ever wonder what was inside the old Port Mann Bridge? Ever wonder what it would look like if those insides where reimagined and used to transform a public...
By Anya Paskovic -
FCM Event: Young Professionals in Municipal Government and City Building, May 31, 2013
What role can young professionals play in municipal government and city building? How can they get involved? And what are those who are already involved...
By Spacing -
Heritage House Tour Feature: Grandview Woodland
Bordered by Clark Dr, Broadway, Nanaimo St and the Burrard Inlet, this historic neighbourhood tells one of the common stories of Vancouver’s early...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Studies on the West End – Georgia Street
[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...
By Shelley Long -
Visual Thoughts #26
Last VT image: Early morning parking lot food trucks, downtown Portland. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: 40 Years of Changing Attitudes in Metro Vancouver
Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey 2012 Results Politicians, planners and policy makers can now be informed by forty years of comparative data on the...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Day to Night on the London Underground
Day to Night on one of the world’s biggest Metro Systems the London Underground. Some people think that it’s the most miserable place on earth, however if...
By Yuri Artibise -
Will Vancouver Replace a Freeway with a Stroad?
Vancouver’s freeway remnants are finally due for demolition. City staff like to draw comparisons to New York’s High Line and Seoul’s famous river...
By neilsalmond -
Densification, Development and Demolition: Heritage and the Three D’s
Dr. Jeff’s was a prominent Vancouver figure in the first decades of the 20th century. He was an Alderman, the City’s Police Commissioner and the City...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation