Graham McGarva has been a Vancouver based Urban Activist for 40 years, 30 of them as Principal of VIA Architecture. Throughout he has striven to balance ‘poetry & mathematics’, in the creation of connective communities.

Community

Writing Vancouver – A Long Story this …

A Long Story this … It was at Quebec and Terminal in 1973, as a young immigrant hitch-hiker, I arrived at the Pacific... Read More

Urban Design

Copenhagen: Textbook Urbanism

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

Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By grahammcgarva

Copenhagen: Textbook Urbanism