{"id":3152,"date":"2011-10-03T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:10:50","slug":"hastings-street-the-pulse-of-a-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/10\/03\/hastings-street-the-pulse-of-a-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Street: The Pulse of a Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Downtown Eastside has come to be known as \u201cCanada\u2019s Poorest Postal Code\u201d. \u00a0The area radiating from the intersection at Main and Hastings has gained notoriety as an epicenter of drug use, poverty and mental illness. \u00a0This map focuses on a few blocks west of this intersection, on Hastings Street between Cambie and Columbia. \u00a0Recently, an influx of investment has driven change in parts of the neighbourhood, the most prominent new development being the new Woodward\u2019s complex, a mixed-use conglomeration of buildings that occupies of the block of Hastings between Cambie and Abbot. \u00a0New life is being injected into the community, but is it for the better? \u00a0Development and the evolution of the neighborhood are inevitable, but development should not occur at the expense of current occupants.<\/p>\n

The data for the map graphic \u201cHastings Street: Pulse of a Community\u201d was collected on the basis of \u2018street feel\u2019. \u00a0The map itself was meant to capture an impression of Hastings and to show how different seemingly unrelated elements work together to form an impression of the street as a place in transition.<\/p>\n

Presence\/absence data was collected for the following parameters:<\/p>\n