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Modernist Masterpiece: The Downs Residence

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Variations of the Modern Movement in architecture which started in Europe in the 1920s can be seen across North America, and on the... Read More

Event: Life Between Umbrellas Design Competition

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Vancouver receives the equivalent of over five months of rainy weather a year. How can our public spaces better respond to the wet... Read More

A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’

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On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set... Read More

District Lot 185: Vancouver’s West End

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Written for VHF by guest author, Michael Kluckner. No Vancouver neighbourhood has more layers of heritage than the West End. Its early... Read More

Urban greenways can reduce neighbourhood carbon emissions

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Cities working to prioritize active transportation with the aim of reducing neighbourhood carbon emissions now has some of the first... Read More

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ROOFTOP CROP: Can Edible Living Roof’s Feed Vancouver? Taylor Boisjoli, Jaclyn Kaloczi, Vanessa Kuiper ABSTRACT Investigating how to... Read More

EVENT: An Evening with Eve Lazarus at the West Vancouver Memorial Library, February 28

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When: Wednesday February 28, 7:00 p.m. Where: West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Drive, West Vancouver... Read More

The Death and Life of the Single-Family House

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When experts try to explain how Vancouver’s history has impacted its housing crisis, they often point to Expo 86 as ground zero. But... Read More

Copenhagen: Textbook Urbanism

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Jan Gehl is probably the best tour guide you could ever hope for in Copenhagen. And so it was, after luxuriating over a couple of long... Read More