[caption id="attachment_3042" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of It Caught My Eye"][/caption]   A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.

  [caption id="attachment_2782" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of waferboard."][/caption]   A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.

[caption id="attachment_2634" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of dooq."][/caption] A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.

[caption id="attachment_2361" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="View from Brownsville Bar Park, North Surrey, BC. 110813-12. Courtesy of waferboard."][/caption] A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Cities are always grappling with containing costs particularly when it concerns infrastructure maintenance. In seeking ways to stretch every dollar further, East Vancouverites find themselves the subject of a four-year experiment by way of a rubber sidewalk fashioned entirely out of recycled tires. The City of Abbotsford refuses to be treated like refuse. That city is ...

Peek down an alleyway in any city and what will you find? Shadows, garbage bins, concrete, perhaps danger. With an aim to demonstrate how to transform these oft-ignored corridors into attractive, thriving public spaces, Livable [sic] Laneways and the Vancouver Design Nerds teamed up to give an alley in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood a makeover. This Saturday, July 30, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., the last of three artful events the two organizations have been co-hosting in conjunction with VIVA Vancouver will be held near the Main Street and West Broadway intersection - in the north-south laneway next to the historic Lee Building, a few steps west of Main. Local businesses open up their back doors. Musicians will perform as artists and designers dress up an otherwise drab alleyway for the public to enjoy.

[caption id="attachment_11363" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Photo courtesy of Bouke Salverda"][/caption] In B.C., natural gas companies don't have to get water permits from the provincial Ministry of the Environment as they pump unrecorded tonnes of it underground. By Liam Lahey, re:place Magazine

Is Vancouver truly the 'best place on Earth' to live? No it isn't. But it has the potential. By Liam Lahey, re:place Magazine

[caption id="attachment_9844" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons"][/caption] As dirty crude from the Alberta oilsands is pipelined to Vancouver's shores and oil tanker traffic is on the rise in the Burrard Inlet, what's preventing another Exxon Valdez from unfolding? By Liam Lahey, re:place Magazine

[caption id="attachment_9056" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Photo by Liam Lahey"][/caption] An arresting affair indeed. Housed in Vancouver's original city morgue, the city's Police Museum is as much about modern forensics as it is about the history of policing in B.C. By Liam Lahey, re:place Magazine