Civic Engagement

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...

Release: Contagion Consulting conducts first independent study to reveal experiences of panhandlers with controversial token based meal program

Contagion Consulting is announcing the results of the first independent study looking into the behaviour and opinions of panhandlers towards the Save On...

Upcycle Urbanism Team Day – March 25

Ever wonder what was inside the old Port Mann Bridge? Ever wonder what it would look like if those insides where reimagined and used to transform a public...

Video Vancouver: What is Generation Squeeze?

All statistics are adjusted for inflation and reflect Canada wide data.

FCM Event: Young Professionals in Municipal Government and City Building, May 31, 2013

What role can young professionals play in municipal government and city building? How can they get involved? And what are those who are already involved...

Citizen urban planners take to Vancouver streets in honour of Jane Jacobs

Over the course of one weekend—this year on May 3rd, 4th and 5th—citizens in urban areas around the world—including Vancouver—will lead over 600 walking...

Women Transforming Cities Best Practice Awards 2013: Cities that Work for Women and Girls

The Women Transforming Cities Best Practice Awards recognize outstanding achievement in designing cities for the advancement of women and girls. The 2013...