Culture
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Cartographically Speaking: The Politics of Flight
Click here for a larger image. We tend to think of cities in their horizontal dimension—artifacts the spread laterally across the landscape. This is...
By Erick Villagomez -
Book Review – Great City Maps
Author: DK Publishing (2016) “A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.” – Gilbert H. Grosvenor...
By Chris Bruntlett -
Lightworks: A Precedent for Preserving Vancouver’s Industrial Heritage?
We’ve all read the stories about Vancouver’s disregard for heritage homes, about the frequent demolition of gorgeous character houses to make way for...
By brentsawchyn -
EVENT – MOV Why I Design – November 4
Why I Design WHEN: Friday, November 4, TIME: 7-11pm WHERE: Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street ADMISSION: Adults: $18.00 in advance, $23.00 at the...
By Spacing -
Industrial Magic
What should we do with urban industrial lands? Many that live within rapidly growing cities may argue that this question is extremely dated. Irrelevant...
By Erick Villagomez -
Shaping Vancouver 2016 – What Is The Vision For Chinatown?
Vancouver’s Chinatown is Canada’s largest and encompasses an ethnic mix of different demographics along with many century-old heritage...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Book Review – Generations: Six Decades of the Art and Architecture of Herb Green
Herb Greene is an American architect, who studied under the Bruce Goff—a popular figure known for his ‘organic’ and unusual designs...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Selling Bread to Housewives in the 1920s
On a sunny day in East Vancouver in 2011, the new owners of a 1922 building were renovating the ground floor into what is today the Via Tevere Pizzeria...
By Madeleine de Trenqualye -
Lessons on Affordability from Germany and Austria
Vancouver’s City Council Vision Vancouver has implemented a number of creative ways to tackle the city’s affordability crisis. In its most...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Vancouver’s Connection to Craftsman Architecture
VHF would like to thank Michael Kluckner, local author and artist, for guest writing this post. Almost as ubiquitous in our city as the Vancouver Special...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
10 Tips for Blogging About Cities
In January, I was invited by the National Capital Commission in Ottawa to speak about urbanism and blogging. It challenged me to reflect on how far my...
By Jillian Glover -
Squeezed Out
At the recent SCARP Symposium, Dr. Paul Kershaw, a policy professor in the UBC School of Population & Public Health gave the afternoon keynote...
By Yuri Artibise