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PARK(ing) Day is fast approaching!

This year’s PARK(ing) Day is a little over a week away! The plans for VPSN’s PARK(ing) spot are finalized and we promise you a very engaging, interactive, and entertaining one. It will be located on the 1200 block of Davie... Continue reading »

September 8, 2010   |   0 comments
VPSN Public Space News & Events | 27 August 2010

Welcome to almost-September folks! Hope you all had a great summer and are excited for what’s coming in these last few weeks before fall. We’ll be welcoming the change in seasons with PARK(ing) Day and a variety of other projects... Continue reading »

August 28, 2010   |   0 comments
PARK(ing) Day 2009 More space for PARK(ing) Day!

PARK(ing) Day 2009 on Hornby Street Interest in this year’s PARK(ing) Day activities is beginning to pick up. Sandra Thomas wrote a piece on our plans in the most recent edition of the Vancouver Courier, and Fairchild Media covered the... Continue reading »

August 10, 2010   |   2 comments
Locals and Tourists #11 (GTWA #12): Vancouver Geotagging Tourists

Tourists and Locals: tourist photos are red, locals blue, and yellow unknown Flickr user Eric Fischer, back in June, put up a collection of maps that made the internet rounds back in June. These maps collated data from the geotagging... Continue reading »

August 10, 2010   |   0 comments
Public Transit: Jarrett Walker’s Field Guide to Transit Debates

Last week, transportation consultant and blogger Jarrett Walker spoke to an attentive crowd of Vancouver area planners, public transit authority staff, and other transit-minded folk, sharing some of what he’d learned in his 20 years of transportation consulting experience. Having... Continue reading »

August 9, 2010   |   3 comments