Culture
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Vancouver’s Chinatown: The Dichotomy of Past and Present – Part 1
Vancouver’s Chinatown is one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods. Initially it developed as a segregated enclave along Carrall and Pender Street...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Vancouver’s urban agriculture movement
SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VANCOUVER: GLOBALIZATION & NEOLIBERALISM While globalization has come to be a highly-circulated term...
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The curious state of cycling in Japan
When we look for examples of great cycling cities or countries, we often look to Denmark or the Netherlands. For a good reason, of course—these places...
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Third Wave Coffee—How Vancouver is celebrating its Coffee Culture at the Beanstock Festival
Since the emergence of coffee chains starting with Starbucks, coffee has become more than a consumer product; it has developed into a lifestyle brand...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Copenhagen: Textbook Urbanism
Jan Gehl is probably the best tour guide you could ever hope for in Copenhagen. And so it was, after luxuriating over a couple of long lunches together...
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Book Review – Big City Bees
How do city kids relate to the seasons and to where their food comes from? Their connection to nature can be just as rich and deep as any suburban...
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Event – 2017 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: The Four Arts
2017 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: The Four Arts Date: Friday, October 6, 2017 Time: 5:30–10:00 p.m. Price: $10 General | $20 Family* (plus tax and processing...
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Event: Vancouver Art Book Fair, Oct. 13-17
The Vancouver Art Book Fair—Canada’s first and longest-running international art book fair—returns to the Vancouver Art Gallery from October 13 to...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Meditation Park
Via The Tyee: An East Van Family Story in ‘Meditation Park’ It’s a movie filmed in Vancouver that actually takes place in Vancouver! Meet an East Van...
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Video Vancouver: Richmond/Kowloon
Vancouver-based Greg Girard spent three decades working and living in Asia examining the social and physical transformations of some of its largest cities...
By Yuri Artibise -
Event: BIG TIMES screening at VIFF 2017!
Big Time (Vancouver International Film Festival) WHEN: Sept 28 – Oct 13 Big Time DIR. KASPAR ASTRUP SCHRÖDER,, DENMARK Seven arduous, successful...
By Spacing -
Book Review – Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays
Editor: Nancy S. Steinhardt (Princeton University Press, 2017) The study of traditional Chinese architecture and building techniques has come a long way...
By Ulduz Maschaykh