WHAT: Spacing's 2nd national issue release party WHEN: Friday February 3rd, 2012, 9pm-1am WHERE: Canvas Lounge (99 Powell St. in Gastown) HOW MUCH: free! (mag costs $5) RSVP: Let us know if you can come at our Facebook event listing The editors of Spacing and contributors of Spacing Vancouver are excited to announce that the magazine will host a release party at the Canvas Lounge in Vancouver to celebrate the publication of the newest national issue. We will have some fun activities and a few door prizes. This event is held in conjunction with the annual conference for the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS).

Spacing Vancouver is excited to announce that we will be holding an in-depth Q & A session with Mayor Gregor Robertson to be published as one of the main Feature articles in Spacing's much anticipated second National Edition. In light of this great opportunity, we would like to give our readers the rare opportunity to add to the list of questions and issues we are going to address with the Mayor. Bike lanes? Laneway housing? Public realm? Future visions for the city? Anything you feel is important and worthwhile. Given our limited ...

As we mentioned last week, Spacing will continue to publish a national edition of the magazine twice a year (plus two Toronto-centric editions a year). That means we need to expand our cast of contributors (more specifically photographers). If you love to photograph your city — wherever that may be in Canada — we want to see your images. You can add us as a contact on Flickr, or if you really want to be helpful to our production team, you can add your photos to the national issue's Flickr group. ...

With the success of Spacing's first national issue — our special summer edition has sold twice as well as any previous issue we've ever published — our editors have decided that we will continue to provide our readers with pan-Canada coverage of everything urban. Since 2003, Spacing has published 22 issues with all but one of them focused exclusively on Toronto urbanism. As we've expanded our blog network across Canada — Montreal in 2007, Ottawa and the Atlantic cities ...

The launch of Spacing's National Edition featuring the 100 best public spaces in Canadian cities at the beginning of the summer  provoked a lot of discussion in and around Vancouver, not the least of which is the why certain public spaces didn't make the cut. As the organizer and editor of the "Vancouver" contributions to magazine, I've been bombarded with questions around what led to the local final top 10 choices and what the jurors had to say. Given the limited space for the magazine, the write-ups for each of the winners had to remain extremely succinct and I think it's worth sharing a little bit about what happened behind-the-scenes and some of the comments that were made about Vancouver's public spaces by our esteemed jury.