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Event: END HOUSING ALIENATION NOW!
END HOUSING ALIENATION NOW! A Cross-Canada Superstudio to End Housing Alienation Architecture schools across Canada are coming together in the 2025–2026...
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Defining “Viability”…and Who Decides What Counts?
Rethinking what our housing system is built to deliver
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Book Review: Rocky Mountain Modern – Contemporary Alpine Homes
“In so many ways this has been a lifelong project. Some of my earliest memories – learning to ski at Sunshine Village, in Banff, seeing Jasper...
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Learning From the Tango
How to Embrace Better Ideas Towards Affordable Housing
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UCS #66: The Three Amigos
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver...
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The Singapore Chronicles: Divergent Models
Part 8 – Singapore, Barcelona, Vancouver
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The Singapore Chronicles: Conclusion
Part 7: Planning, Power, and the Paradox of the Model City
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UCS #65: King David contemplates the future of BC
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: BC...
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The Singapore Chronicles: Designing for Urban Health
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The Singapore Chronicles: Memory in the Margins
Part 5: Pulau Ubin and the Edges of the Urban
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The Singapore Chronicles: Housing the Nation
Part 4: The Architecture of Consensus
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Memo to Carney and Robertson on Fixing Housing
[Editor’s note: This letter, signed by 27 prominent B.C. experts in urban planning and architecture, was sent last week to Prime Minister Mark Carney and...
By Erick Villagomez
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S101S—Understanding Residential Density: FSR, Building Setbacks and Height Regulations
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S101S – Describing Building Types: Why They Matter?
Why is an understanding of building types important to urban planning and design? What aspects of planning are they connected to? Given that urban...
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S101S: Explaining Transit-Oriented Development: Benefits and Drawbacks
What is Transit-Oriented Development and what are its benefits and drawbacks? Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) has become so common within urban...
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The False Creek Pump Station
On Saturday October 4th, the City of Vancouver hosted Doors Open Vancouver, a unique event which provided a rare opportunity for behind the scenes access...
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S101S – Understanding Residential Density: Why is it so Confusing?
What is residential density and why is it so confusing? Residential density is critical to urban planning. It refers to the number of people living in a...
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Inequality, Gender, Intersectionality, Gentrification, and the City: An interview with Leslie Kern
Cities are political and economic centers of power. This comes with its fair share of challenges like poverty and inequality. Spacing Vancouver...
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