Urban Design

Video Vancouver: Happy Streets Living Labs

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What is Happy Streets Living Lab? Join Happy Streets participant Amanda Leahy as she describes the experiment and how the different... Read More

RELEASE: Kickstarter Pledges Bring Vancouver’s Ackery’s Alley to Life

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Following a 30-day Kickstarter campaign, More Awesome Now, creators of Vancouver’s first reimagined laneway, Alley-Oop, have achieved... Read More

Video Vancouver: Bute Rhapsody

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By small places: With the lines of buildings fixed, it can be a challenge to find space for public seating. Yet just south of Robson... Read More

Book Review From the Stacks: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

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To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds... Read More

Help transform downtown Vancouver’s Ackery’s Alley

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After last year’s “Alley-Oop” transformation of an alley near West Hastings and Granville streets, in downtown... Read More

RELEASE: VAG North Plaza reopens

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Upgrades to the North Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery are completing this week in time for the Jazz Festival on Saturday. “The... Read More

EVENT: City Conversations—A New Northeast False Creek Park, June 7, 2017

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Presentation & Conversation on Northeast False Creek Park Design The Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver, in... Read More

RELEASE: Vancouver Design Week(end) 2017

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Showcasing stand out design talent from the edge of the world Vancouver’s official interdisciplinary design festival is back... Read More

EVENT: Jane’s Walk, Burnabyism: Envisioning 52,600 people in Brentwood

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Burnabyism: Envisioning 52,600 people in Brentwood (Gilmore SkyTrain Station) WHEN: May 6, 2017, 2:30 PM, LENGTH: 2 Hours About This... Read More