By Yuri Artibise
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Video Vancouver: Better Governance Model for Cities
Canadian cities were established 150 years ago with a very simple structure. Returning to established principles of good government could lead us to...
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Video Vancouver: Three Waves of Urban Reform
UNDERSTANDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN CITIES The story of urban reform in Canada can be understood in terms of waves. Here are some highlights of how...
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Video Vancouver: Why you’re safer on a bike share bike
It’s heavy and unwieldy, and that’s a good thing. Read more about the study in this piece from Vox’s Brad Plumer.
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Videos from the 2016 UBC Urban Design Forum
On March 10 and 11, 2016, the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP...
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Video Vancouver: Living in Gunter’s World
Under Queen Elizabeth I a priest named Edmund Gunter developed the measures that now frame our modern world. Colonel Richard Moody laid out the skeleton...
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Video Vancouver: Arbutus Greenway
Check out all 11 km of the Arbutus Greenway from False Creek to the Fraser River! (via the City of Vancouver).
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Video Vancouver: Then/Now
Via the Vancouver Sun: North Vancouver high school student Mitchell Przybylski posted this video, titled Vancouver Then and Now, in which he seamlessly...
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Video Vancouver: Downtown Vancouver Re-Imagined
What will downtown Vancouver be like in 2040? The Downtown Vancouver BIA asked over 11,000 people who live, work, and visit downtown to share their dreams...
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Squeezed Out
At the recent SCARP Symposium, Dr. Paul Kershaw, a policy professor in the UBC School of Population & Public Health gave the afternoon keynote...
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Re-Imagining Urban Form & Policy – The (Im)possibility of Design
On March 10 and 11, the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) hosted the...
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Book Review: Streetfight—Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Authors: Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow (Viking Penguin, 2016) As New York City’s transportation commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg from...
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EVENT: Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, February 14, 2016, 3pm-5pm
It’s time for the first Vancouver Urbanist Meetup of 2016. This month, we’ll be meeting on February 14th from 3-5:00pm at the Wolf and...