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RELEASE: Vancouver-based Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Programming Announced
Vancouver-based Roundhouse Radio 98.3 announced an expansion of its programming line-up. With a mandate to provide hyper-local content about the people...
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Why I Design – Interactive and Engaging Design at Museum of Vancouver
According to a study conducted by Hill Strategies, residents in British Columbia have higher than average participation rates in art galleries...
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Release: Former Vancouverite launches Ondergronds – Conversations between strangers on metro trains
What if everyone around you had an inspiring story to share? What if we lived in a city where strangers talked to each other? What if there was a way to...
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Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 2
Yesterday, we highlight the speakers and issues discussed at the SFU’s Housing in the City Beyond The Headlines storytelling event last Monday. The...
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RELEASE: Thousands Re-Imagine Downtown Vancouver in 2040
11,000 Dreamers ‘Re-Imagined’ Downtown Vancouver as a Rain-proofed, Affordable Home for all in 2040 In 2040, downtown Vancouver will be: a healthy...
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Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 1
In 2007, Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right for Adequate Housing, called Canada’s housing situation for its most...
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SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th
Simon Frasier University’s We The City Summit kicked off its fourth major community summit Researching The City on October 30th 2015, where 19...
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RELEASE: Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective on CBC
Last spring, Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective – running out the the Downtown Eastside – filmed a short video for CBC’s The...
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New Welcome Centre: A Potential Poster-Child for Housing Refugees
According to the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSBC), between 2009 and 2013, a total 8,319 refugees arrived in British Columbia. This...
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VIDEO VANCOUVER: We the City: An Evening at the Centre
Join artists Candy Chang, Teju Cole, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Mo Dhaliwal for an engaging and interactive celebration of the important role that arts and...
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Book Review From the Stacks – Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
Author: Douglas Farr (Wiley, 2008) Written by Douglas Farr, the Core Committee Chair of the US Green Building Council’s relatively new LEED for...
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EVENT: Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, September 13, 2015, 3pm-5pm
It’s time again for the Vancouver Urbanist Meetup! This month, we’re meeting on Sunday, September 13 at the newish Central City Red Racer...
By Yuri Artibise