Who is the city for? Last week, a good friend of mine recently told me he and his family were leaving Vancouver. His words struck a chord: “Vancouver has broken us.” Both he and his wife are working ...

Yaletown Vancouver & Superilla Sant Antoni. Images courtesy of Ken Straiton (Getty Images) and City of Barcelona respectively. Cities host our lived experiences. They are more than mere words in ...

On Nov 21, 2014 we opened the Spacing Store at 401 Richmond St. W. It’s been an amazing decade of being the city’s premier ...

A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the understory, in the buzz of life at the ground level, in ...

Rendering of proposed development at 2156-2172 West 14th Avenue between Arbutus and Yew St. Courtesy of the City of Vancouver Application Submission. Editor’s Note: Many residents are unaware—and some ...

Somewhere in this city, there’s a cyclist going about their business who will die in a terrible accident — perhaps sooner, perhaps later — because Doug Ford thinks his campaign to remove bike lanes ...

Be careful, Uytae! Screenshot from About Here, YouTube. Sure, Vancouver’s seawall is the popular place to bike, but that doesn’t mean the suburbs can’t be too — with a few fixes. In the latest episode ...

"Zoning Effect by Metro Vancouver Municipality" from the Housing Prices in British Columbia: Quantifying the Zoning Effect by Nathan Zemp. Social cohesion, environmental health, and industrial ...

With Remembrance Day upon us comes time to reflect on past and present military conflicts. This piece, originally presented on Torontoist on November 11, 2015, looks at the history of one of the major ...

Cross-section of a Green Axis with its 5 principles. Image courtesy of Xavier Matilla. After a scenic ride through El Poblenou and along the Barcelona waterfront, we approached the Sant Antoni market ...

A lot of good reasons against Ontario premier Doug Ford’s plans to not only block many planned bike lanes but rip up some existing one have been put forward, based on safety and travel efficiency, and ...

This article is published in conjunction with issue #68 of Spacing magazine, which is focused on the state of the arts in Toronto. Look for it soon on the shelves of your local bookstore, or in your ...