Dive into the archives.
- A Map on commercial extremes and void potentials
A map about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, looking at the two different extremes of commercial activity: High-end-top-class fashion, jewellery and furniture-stores vs. Low-end-bargain-cheapo $-stores.
The map shows, how Hastings-Street developes within a few blocks from a heaven of decadence (around Granville and Howe) to the other extreme: Street-vendors and $-stores. Another layer looks at potentials for […]
- Transient
A large fluid population signifies the mobile nature of contemporary metropolises. The way a city accommodates them tells how it is interacting with the world. Seventy-eight traveler accommodations around downtown Vancouver are examined in this mapping project, leading to a series of maps, featuring location, size, rates, pet admission, smoking tolerance and gay favor. Each […]
- 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, […]
- Agricultural Land Reserve - Maps
The Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) created in British Columbia 1972 is a protectionist spatial product. Unlike typical spatial products that create - or are created in - zones of exclusion from local conditions in order to take advantage of the global financial, informational and material flows, the ALR is an exclusion from the local […]
- Final Maps
All maps are due Friday April 11 by the end of the day.
Please put a CD with your file in my mailbox together with a print-out. [ideally put file in layers ie. photoshop, illustrator file w/links rather than flattened .pdf] ALSO please post your maps to the blog!
Together with your map please write a 1-paragraph […]
