Dive into the archives.
- Hollywood North
Nicknamed “Hollywood North”, Vancouver has been used as a filmmaking location for nearly a century, beginning with The Cowpuncher’s Glove and The Ship’s Husband, both shot in 1910 by the Edison Manufacturing Company. As a production centre for feature films shot in British Columbia; it has led Canada’s other cities for feature films since 1999.
The […]
- Globalization and World Cities - GaWC
A very interesting site with research related to World Cities and their relational characteristics.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
- VCEC.
Spatial Product. The expansion of the Vancouver convention and exhibition center operates through seasonal, occupational and biological frequencies. Its celebrated nature of being ecologically responsible is, perhaps, over shadowed by constant interior activity that demonstrate hidden relationships–economic necessities and cultural interactions that perpetuate the choas of constant territorial interaction. Digital Interactive Form. In order to […]
- Native Vancouver - Maps
These three maps demonstrate some of the shifts in what is and has been ‘Native space’ within the space of the city over the course of colonial history. The Native population can generally be seen shifting from a number of smaller, localized settlements to a more dispersed pattern incorporating a much larger urban Native population, […]
- MIT’s ahead
http://senseable.mit.edu/
- Ecocities of Tomorrow: Can Foster + Partners’ Masdar City in U.A.E be Truly Sustainable?
”With over a third of the world’s cranes hard at work building artificial islands, an underwater hotel, and the world’s tallest building, biggest mall and most expensive airport, the United Arab Emirates has now turned it attention to building the world’s most sustainable city. Masdar City, a $22 billion initiative to build a brand new, […]
- City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai
“Designed for one of the biggest developers in the United Arab Emirates, Nakheel, Mr. Koolhaas’s master plan for the proposed 1.5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City in Dubai would simulate the density of Manhattan on an artificial island just off the Persian Gulf. A mix of nondescript towers and occasional bold architectural statements, it would establish Dubai as […]
