Civic Engagement
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Jane’s Walk 2014: Be a Walk Leader!
The 8th annual Jane’s Walk Festival will take place on May 2nd, 3rd & 4th in 100+ cities worldwide, including Vancouver! What is Jane’s Walk...
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: City of Vancouver provides online updates about speaker wait times
Starting March 10th, 2014 the City of Vancouver will provide regular updates online to keep people informed on speaker wait times at Council meetings. The...
By Spacing -
RELEASE: City launches Awards of Excellence
The City of Vancouver has launched the first annual Awards of Excellence, a new awards program designed to recognize outstanding civic achievements in...
By Spacing -
City of Surrey 2014 PARKit Design Challenge
The City of Surrey is pleased to announce the return of our pop-up park design-build competition, the 2014 PARKit Design Challenge. Individuals and groups...
By Spacing -
Book Review – Jane’s Walk Annual: Volume One
“This book is about what can happen when people get together and go for a walk. In Guadalajara, they made a citizen’s crosswalk by tracking paint...
By Sean Ruthen -
The French Quarter Parklet — Vancouver’s newest parklet melts cycling and chocolate together at last!
The City of Vancouver has embarked on a Parklet Pilot Program, under the VIVA Vancouver program, that provides funding to interested applicants who wish...
By Cameron Barker -
RELEASE: Kickstart the Bike Bar for Main Street’s French Quarter Parklet
Chocolaterie de la Nouvelle France is sponsoring a parklet on 21st at Main: a fun, interactive public space for seating and a place for gathering...
By Spacing -
Support a new public space in Commercial Drive!
There is an exciting project coming to Commercial Drive on 2014! The Commercial Drive Parklet is one of the selected projects from VIVA Vancouver’s...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Design that Challenges the Status Quo: Emily Carr’s New Master of Design Program
As an undergraduate architecture student, I once had a professor tell me that I should stop focusing so much on what my project “means” and...
By Natalia Zdaniuk -
Megaphone Newspaper: Navigating through the Urban Form
Megaphone (originally known as Spare Change) is a non-for-profit newspaper that has been providing economic opportunities and employment for the homeless...
By curtisscott -
Generation Rent: San Francisco’s Citizen Tenants
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
By Jackie Wong -
West End draft community plan is online
The City of Vancouver’s draft community plan for the West End is now online. The plan sketches out a direction for the neighbourhood over the next 30...
By Spacing