Civic Engagement

Cities of Renters: While Vancouver worships homeowners, San Francisco tenants are first-class citizens. First in a series.

Click to see full Infographic: Cities of Renters, Vancouver vs. San Francisco By Jackie Wong, Tyee Solutions Society [Editor’s note: Beautiful...

WANTED: Your Opinions (An invitation from the Mayor of Vancouver)

A message from Mayor Gregor Robertson Hello, As part of The City of Vancouver’s Engaged City initiative, I am excited to invite you to be part of...

LOHA Housing + Sharing Storytelling Event, Oct 22nd

SHARING is a hot topic these days! Think of the way companies like Car2Go, Airbnb, Grupon and Kickstarter are changing how we live, work, move and spend...

Release: Vancouver’s Megaphone becomes first street paper in world to release a phone app

Vancouver’s Megaphone magazine has become the first street paper in the world to create and release a mobile phone application to make it easier to find...

RELEASE: Vision Critical, City of Vancouver launch Talk Vancouver, an innovative online community

Vision Critical, the world’s leading provider of insight community technologies, is partnering with the City of Vancouver to launch Talk Vancouver, the...

Call for Submissions – “WE ARE BC,” a crowdsourced, user-generated film – DEADLINE EXTENDED, Sept 2nd!!

We are looking for a diversity of perspectives. Participating is simple and free. BC residents can submit a 30-second unedited video clip (taken with a...

Introducing Park-A-Park: Vancouver’s Recently Launched Mobile Parklet

If you’ve visited Vancouver’s Commercial Drive recently, and walked by the southwest corner where East 1st Avenue crosses The Drive, you may have caught...

Northeast False Creek & Eastern Core Consultation Questionnaire

Via the City of Vancouver: The City of Vancouver will be undertaking two parallel planning processes for Northeast False Creek (including the viaducts...

Playing in the Sandbox

The process of urban planning has always been a bit of a mystery to me and I don’t believe I am the only one to feel this way. The technical...

Designing More Usable, Accessible and Intuitive Community Plans: July 18, 2013

How can you create usable, intuitive and accessible plans that don’t sit on the shelf and get ignored and at worst, create confusion and instead...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Lions Gate Bridge

PARKit Design Challenge

This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...