Civic Engagement
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Generation Rent: Tyee call for renter story submissions – deadline extended to Monday, Nov. 4
Are you a renter in Metro Vancouver? The Tyee wants to publish your stories. We’re looking for first-person accounts of what it’s like to live...
By Jackie Wong -
REMINDER – LOHA’s Housing+Sharing Event
The Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) is hosting a storytelling night on Housing and the Sharing Economy. This event is tomorrow Tuesday October...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Upcycle Urbanism: Remembering the Reinvention of Granville Street
For seven months (much longer for some), volunteers from Spacing Magazine, the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Vancouver Public...
By Anya Paskovic -
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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Spacing -
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...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
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...
By Spacing -
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...
By Spacing -
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...
By Spacing -
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...
By Liz Vossen -
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...
By Yuri Artibise -
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...
By Natalia Zdaniuk