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A HiVE of activity

Imagine arriving to work at a downtown historic building, where your workspace has high ceilings, brick walls, and huge windows. You can meet with clients...

March 25, 2012, named Tom Cone Day in Vancouver in honour of the Mayor’s Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement

The Mayor has proclaimed March 25, 2012, as Tom Cone Day in Vancouver in honour of the distinguished playwright, collaborator and philanthropist who...

The Gastown Project: JIM GREEN

A suburban pilgrimage, Part II: Retrofitting Levittown!

[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is travelling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...

Occupying the Election

The City has just posted notices asking Occupy Vancouver campers to pack up and leave, but if last night’s Last Candidate Standing event was any...

Video Vancouver: Putnam Block Party

Putnam Block Party from adele pham on Vimeo.

Vancouver Helps Launch the CanU

If this article is the first you’ve heard of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, you’re not alone. Its board is a veritable who’s who of...

Video Vancouver: Childhood Days

Park(ing) Day!

Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into...

Studio Marpole: Looking at Marpole through the eyes of UBC design students

It is customary for different groups to be involved in development projects that will greatly affect the existing urban fabric of a city or a...

Origami City: Transportation 2040 planning to bring Vancouver closer together

When Spacing made its formal debut in Vancouver this June, the city’s new urban generation was able to make good use of the bar on one side of the...

The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 5: Epilogue

Locally, the public is constantly bombarded by politicians and municipal officials who state that they are doing everything within their means to tackle...