Dive into the archives.
- 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 […]
- Vancouver Density Map
http://regardingplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/cov_densitymap_mid.jpg
- GVRD Maps
From the GVRD Livable Region Strategic Plan. The maps are of questionable graphic quality, but might be good data sets to look at.
http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/growth/maps.htm
- “bulldoze the border”
This article traces a history of lighthearted and serious plans to join British Columbia, Washington + Oregon into a new entity called Cascadia. The reasons for this range from shared political+economic concerns across the region to shared cultural legacies.
http://www.vancouverreview.com/past_articles/cascadiacalling.htm
also check out:
http://www.cascadianow.org/
http://www.zapatopi.net/cascadia/
