Civic Engagement
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Do Small in a Big Way: BC Housing Society’s first annual Summit
It’s not a movement about people claiming to be ‘tinier than thou’ but rather people making their own choices toward simpler and smaller living however...
By Sean Ruthen -
Writing Vancouver – Smashed Egg Syndrome
SMASHED EGG SYNDROME or How to Make an Omelette If you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs. — City of Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan...
By natashasanderskay -
Writing Vancouver – A Long Story this …
A Long Story this … It was at Quebec and Terminal in 1973, as a young immigrant hitch-hiker, I arrived at the Pacific...
By grahammcgarva -
Release: Living in an apartment with kids? Share your experiences
Via City of Vancouver: The City of Vancouver is seeking input from apartment-dwelling families with children to help plan for spaces that better meet...
By Spacing -
The “Right to Housing” still not realized in BC – why a constitutional amendment may be needed
Despite recent advocacy, a declaration by our Prime Minister that housing rights are human rights, and a record count of homelessness in Metro Vancouver...
By Scott McAlpine -
A Deeper Dive into Family Friendly Affordable Housing at the Museum of Vancouver
On February 1st the RAIC Metro Vancouver Chapter hosted the second installment of this year’s MOV Built City Speaker Series, titled ‘A Deeper Dive into...
By Sean Ruthen -
Video: Vancouver and Surrey join forces for Smart Cities Challenge
The cities of Vancouver and Surrey are partnering together to submit a joint application for the Infrastructure Canada Smart Cities Challenge, a...
By Spacing -
Vancouver’s urban agriculture movement
SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VANCOUVER: GLOBALIZATION & NEOLIBERALISM While globalization has come to be a highly-circulated term...
By jaredskoreyko -
Cartographically Speaking – CoV Elementary School Capacity vs Child Population by Neighbourhood
Click here to see an enlarged version. In September 2016, I unexpectedly received an email from a concerned Vancouverite. She had read some of the pieces...
By Erick Villagomez -
Video Vancouver: Places for People Downtown
Via City of Vancouver: What’s your vision for public space in Downtown Vancouver? Over the summer, the City of Vancouver launched Places for People...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video: Vancouver Foundation’s 2017 Connect & Engage
Highlights from the Vancouver Foundation‘s 2017 Connect & Engage Report measuring the strength of connections and engagement among Metro...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: DVBIA’s Perch Program fetches positive feedback
How do you feel when you are in this space? That’s one of the questions that the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) asked...
By Spacing