ATerritorial

ALR map update

nick — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:20:17 +0000

This map reflects updated research on the extent of submitted applications for exclusion from the ALR made within the GVRD between 2000 and 2008. Of the 60 applications made, 6 were allowed with conditions (32.25 hectares), 27 were allowed outright (212.7 hectares) and 27 were refused (357.3 hectares). This numbers do not carry a guarantee of accuracy, as certain large applications may or may not have been omitted from the data set. The clustering of the applications in the Maple Ridge area and the Aldergrove area of Langley indicate current locations of pressure induced by recent and near future urban development. The relative predominance of refusals is indicative of the relative success with which the ALC is fighting the pressure of urbanization put on by the global economies revaluation of local agricultural production, and the land it relies on.

A Map on commercial extremes and void potentials

philipp — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:39:48 +0000

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 improving Street-life. Void spaces and Lots offer spacefor temporary urban improvements for a neigborhood,where life on the street plays an important role; three collages are a first attempt to show, what these could be.

Hollywood North

goran — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:25:12 +0000

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 allure of the Vancouver syline lies in its ability to be anonymous. The every place and simultaneously nowhere. The spatial products of the downtown core allow filmamkers to substitute Vancouver for any-city USA as well as a host of global locations. The folowing set of maps illuminate the role of film in shaping Vancouver’s spatial identitiy, as well as creating unique and constantly changing spatial conditions managed through the medium of film.

references:

Mike Gasher. Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002. p. 8.

Ken MacIntyre. Reel Vancouver. Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1996. p. 133.

Foreign location production spending, British Columbia and Canada.
Statistics Canada. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_North

Art of the Chase

Map 02

Map 03

Globalization and World Cities - GaWC

nick — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:54:41 +0000

A very interesting site with research related to World Cities and their relational characteristics.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/

Transient

bill — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:25:37 +0000

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 map catches a glimpse of economic, environmental, or cultural dimension of these transient lodgings, and a relation between the city and its fluid population. The comparisons between these maps further reveal the spatiotemporal distribution of the multiple valences of the city’s transient habitation.

Transient

VCEC.

claire — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:10:14 +0000

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 translate this map into digital form, I would work compressing and expanding the layers as they react to seasonal fluxes—this would mean incorporating (or isolating the existing layers—i.e., nature vs. exhibition) additional layers to speak about weather changes, tourist seasons, exhibition set-up, cleaning-up, Olympic venues.

vcec-c-corey.pdf

Native Vancouver - Maps

tai — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:39:52 +0000

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, though many ‘clusters’ still exist: some on-reserve, some not. Loosely tied to these settlement patterns are the shifting boundaries of Indian reserves denied by a series of government commissions; while many of the boundaries still correspond to localized settlements, many of the perimeters have been redefined in subtle ways, most often resulting in smaller areas. Several Native groups have also leased portions of their reserve lands to other urban parties; these locations are compared to leased areas owned by other major leasing groups, the City of Vancouver and UBC Properties Trust, as locations for either market or non-market housing.

unvancouver-native-pop.pdf

unvancouver-reserve-land.pdf

unvancouver-leased-land.pdf

Agricultural Land Reserve - Maps

nick — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:36:49 +0000

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 conditions in order to impede the action of global forces. Map 1a is a simple description of this space at the scale of the GVRD. The driving motivations behind the maintenance of the ALR are both pragmatic (safeguarding future food security) and political (protecting and encouraging farming as a viable way of life in B.C.). As the relative value of agriculturally productive farmland is decreasing due to lower transportation costs allowing foreign food products to underprice local products the relative value of developed land is increasing due to continuing immigration into the GVRD. This situation is particularly clear in Richmond, B.C. where the rapidly growing City Centre Area abuts 55 hectares of class 4 - but currently unused- agricultural land. Maps 2a and 2b describe this conflict in greater depth. Map 1b provides the context by exposing the pressure applied by these global forces on the GVRD ALR as a whole through pinpointing parcels for which applications for exclusion from the ALR have been made although not necessarily approved. Overall, the ALR can be considered a manifestation of those cultural forces that are opposed (at least in part) to the deregulated operation of the global flows on local space.

map 1a

map 1b

map 2a

Map 2b

Final Maps

mari — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:42:31 +0000

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 [~100 words] explaining the issues explored in your map.

Also- please write a short note to me with your idea about how the map should be presented in print form and in digital/interactive form.

NYT Travel Magazine article on Vancouver

mari — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:07:52 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/30/style/t/index.html#pageName=30placegrid

It’s fascinating to see what outsiders celebrate in Vancouver-