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Volunteers Needed—Doors Open Vancouver 2014
Doors Open Vancouver is a one-day, free, behind-the-scenes look at Vancouver’s most intriguing buildings. Over 20 buildings will be participating in...
By Yuri Artibise -
Events: 5th Annual Autumn Shift Festival & 4th Annual Smoking Sausage BBQ Cook-Off, Mount Pleasant BIA
On Sunday, September 14th the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area will host the 5th Annual Autumn Shift Festival and 4th Annual Smoking Sausage BBQ...
By Spacing -
Living History: An Interview with Eve Lazarus
Many people live by the idea that understanding the past is critical to understanding the present, and planning for the future. Yet, at a time obsessed...
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Video Vancouver: There Goes the Gayborhood
There Goes the Gayborhood is a new book by Amin Ghaziani that explores how and why gay neighborhoods are changing.
By Yuri Artibise -
How to Throw a Block Party in Vancouver
[Author’s Note: Summer is the perfect time to get outside and get to know your neighbours. The Vancouver Public Space Network published this...
By Jillian Glover -
July Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, July 13, 2014, 3pm-5pm
For July’s Vancouver Urbanist Meetup we are going to switch things up a bit. Instead of heading indoors to another pub this month, we are going to...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: STOP. LOOK. DRAW.
On Saturday, June 14, 2014 Hughes Condon Marler Architects and Industrial Brand presented VancouVoyeur as part of the Vancouver Draw Down. This is an...
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: OCOP! – Grandview Woodlands Citizens not happy with City planning process
“Our Community, Our Plan!” (OCOP!) Residents’ Group members are concerned that the City wants to build dozens of high-end condo towers across the East...
By Spacing -
FUEL Vancouver – Where are we now?
On Thursday, May 29, I had the opportunity to attend Day 1 of Dialogues of the FUEL conference here in Vancouver. FUEL ambitiously stands for the Future...
By Shelley Long -
RELEASE: Downtown Playgrounds Reimagined – Volunteers Wanted
The Vancouver Society of Children’s Centres (VSOCC) and Projects in Place Society (PiPS) are excited to partner in greatly improving licensed playgrounds...
By Spacing -
RELEASE: Call For Directors—GetOnBoard BC
GetOnBoard BC is seeking individuals dedicated to moving transit forward in Metro Vancouver to stand for our board of directors at our first Annual...
By Yuri Artibise -
Vancouver’s West End Gentrification
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett It’s one of the most densely...
By Adam Naamani