SFU Public Square, in partnership with Vancity present We The City: An Evening at the Centre, an engaging and interactive celebration of the important role that arts and culture play in reflecting and shaping the fabric of our cities. https://youtu.be/ZwwCeCcyOco Candy Chang, Teju Cole, and Buffy Sainte-Marie will give compelling talks and Mo Dhaliwal will guide you through…
This fun Massimo Vignelli inspired Metroplasm ‘subway’ map was designed for the 30th Anniversary Ghostbusters Commemorative art project.
My (transit-oriented) tribute to the 2014 Canadian Olympic men’s ice hockey team.
Viewing his Mount Pleasant neighbourhood from behind a camera gave Emmanuel Buenviaje a new perspective on Vancouver.
This week’s wrap of good reads for urbanists.
Dave Delisle has created a map of Vancouver’s SkyTrain transit system, done in the Super Mario Bros 3 map style.
8-Bit Cities make cities feel foreign yet familiar by bringing together the lo-fi maps of 1980s role-playing games and today’s web maps.
Rorschmap is a Google Maps mashup by James Bridle that creates Rorschach inspired kaleidoscopic views of cities and other locations from around the world.
Here is this weeks selection of news and views for urbanists.
Regular readers know that I have a fascination with street art. I recently came across this video that takes graffiti to an entirely new level.