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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Neighbourhood Watch

    A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. As a way to decrease city spending and address public complaints about the City’s tax...

  • September 14, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • The Wealthy Barber and The Tin Man [Grandview Heritage Group] • Community bike shop wants to take fear out of bike maintenance for Vancouverites...

  • September 13, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Vancouver celebrates its 100-year-old houses [Georgia Straight] • Tour targets neighbourhood zoning [Vancouver Courier] • B.C. to welcome more...

  • September 12, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • City Expands Residential Food Scraps Recycling Program: Now all food is accepted with yard waste [Mayor of Vancouver] • Delays, fewer buses...

  • Release: TO|FROM BC ELECTRIC RAILWAY 100 YEARS

    TO|FROM BC ELECTRIC RAILWAY 100 YEARS Raymond Boisjoly | Stan Douglas | Ali Kazimi | Vanessa Kwan | Evan Lee | Cindy Mochizuki September 15 – November 10...

  • September 11, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Vancouver’s first parkour gym opens on Main Street [OpenFile] • Bring us your chicken bones and your pizza leftovers. Vancouver...

  • September 10, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Polak to keep province’s TransLink policies on track [Globe and Mail] • As totem pole rises, so does talk of reconciliation and ritual [Globe and...

  • September 9, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Transit security to target Waterfront station [Vancouver Sun] • Is solving West Broadway’s transit woes really a lifetime away? [Globe and Mail...

  • September 8, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Fall council preview: Viaducts, shared bikes, and closed streets [OpenFile] • VPD continues illegal shopping-cart demolitions in Downtown Eastside...

  • Release: SFU Public Square summit aims to bring Metro Vancouverites closer

    From Opening Night at the Orpheum Theatre featuring some of Canada’s brightest minds, to a Mayors Roundtable, a Youth and Student Conference, an Urban...

  • Release: Built City, a new Museum of Vancouver/Architecture Canada series

    The second series at the Museum of Vancouver with Architecture Canada – on the Built City: 3 Rs of City-building in Vancouver. Sessions start at 7 p.m...

  • September 7, 2012 Headlines

    LOCAL • Musqueam, developer continue wrangling over Vancouver land [Vancouver Courier] • 103 years ago, the second Granville Street Bridge opened...