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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...
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EVENT: AxA – Art by Architects
The Metro Vancouver Chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) would like to invite you to Art x Architects – archKIDecture, an...
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Kids in the City: Raising a family in a 500sq ft laneway home
Akua Schatz, a director at the Canadian Green Building Council, and her photographer husband, Brendon Purdy, currently live in a home that is smaller than...
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Identifying Intangible Heritage Values for Vancouver’s Chinatown
Heritage BC is conducting a public process around Identifying Intangible Heritage Values for Vancouver’s Chinatown. Submit your comments by August...
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EVENT: Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, August 9, 2015, 3pm-5pm
It’s back! The Vancouver Urbanist Meetup is returning with a special summer edition! This month, we’ll be meeting at the Food Cart Fest next...
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EVENT: The Granville Social, July 18 & 19
Watch, play, mingle and meet: all in the street! Check out The Granville Social, a weekend event that will transform the Granville strip into a public...
By Yuri Artibise