Urban Design
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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 -
A reluctant cyclist in Europe’s cycling capital – Part 2
Last Monday, I explored the the remarkable persistence of the Dutch cyclist in all types of weather, the Protestant roots of the culture, the impact of...
By Ren Thomas -
Video Vancouver: Urban Air
Urban Air is a wifi enabled green billboard that replaces advertising with living bamboo, water and climate monitoring technology.
By Caroline Toth -
SFU CIty Conversations: Where is Big TOO Big?—April 18, 2013
Vancouver has had periodic debates over heights of new buildings, first in downtown, then in some neighbourhoods like Mt. Pleasant. Successive councils...
By Yuri Artibise