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Release: Jane’s Walk Vancouver Events!

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Only one week away! We are super excited about all the new and returning walks we have this year – check our the full list... Read More

Release: Bike to Work Week 2019 Launches with a New Bike to Shop Component

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In less than a month, Bike to Work Week presented by Jump kicks off, motivating thousands of people to try cycling to work for the... Read More

Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars

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From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before... Read More

Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle

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E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer... Read More

Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?

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I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway... Read More

The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series

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As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in... Read More

Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’

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Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family... Read More

Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver

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Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more... Read More

A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’

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On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set... Read More