Culture
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Book Review—The Inspired Landscape: Twenty-one leading landscape architects explore the creative process
Author: Susan Cohen (Timber Press, 2015) The Inspired Landscape tells the stories of projects by twenty-one world renowned landscape architects, exploring...
By Shelley Long -
The Vancouver Song: “It’s a big big city, but there ain’t no place for me”
“The Vancouver Song” by Tim Sars, 2016 The man in the video is Tim Sars. He is the leader of the Vancouver institution “The Carnival Band...
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Re-Engaging Vancouver’s Waterfront
Vancouver is a beautiful city. Surrounded by the ocean, green mountains and parks, Vancouverites seem to thoroughly enjoy all its natural amenities...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
The City Before the City: “Righting History” in c̓əsnaʔəm
A public controversy erupted in 2012 when ancestral remains were unearthed during the pre-construction of a condo development on southwest Marine Drive...
By Madeleine de Trenqualye -
Museum of Vancouver Launches Your Future Home: Creating The New Vancouver
Following last week’s Vancouver Debates #1 kick off event at the Museum of Vancouver, visitors where invited to the launch of the Your Future Home...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
EVENT: Cǝsnǝʔǝm, the City before the City , Jan. 28th
WHEN: Thursday January 28 at 7:30pm WHERE: The Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street SPEAKERS: Viviane Gosselin (Curator of Contemporary Issues...
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Book Review – Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
Author: Maria Tippett (Harbour Publishing, 2015) When I first received this book for review, I was intrigued by the premise it presented: how could...
By Shelley Long -
EVENT: MOV/Urbanarium – Vancouver Debates I, Jan. 20
Vancouver Debates I – Open All Neighbourhoods to Densification WHEN: Wednesday, January 20 WHERE: Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street...
By Spacing -
EVENT – MOV: Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver, Jan 21-Mar. 15
Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver WHEN: Jan. 21-May 15, 2016 WHERE: Museum of Vancouver – 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC From the...
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EVENT: Active Fiction Project, until Dec. 31st!
Over the Holiday, be sure to check out the lateset Active Fiction Project – a mashup of public space intervention, literature, create your own...
By Spacing -
Book Review – So It Is: Vancouver
There are different ways to learn about your city. Its past. Its present. And its future. So it is: Vancouver is a collection of inspiring stories of...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Green Roofs: The North American Context
In the winter of 2014, Associate Professor Daniel Roehr conducted a Green Roof Seminar for his landscape architecture and environmental design students...
By Tamara Bonnemaison