Culture
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Writing Vancouver – A Long Story this …
A Long Story this … It was at Quebec and Terminal in 1973, as a young immigrant hitch-hiker, I arrived at the Pacific...
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Release: New Public Art on Granville Island With Art Smash, May 12th
A group of local and international artists will be creating new murals on Granville Island starting on May 1st. The murals will appear around The Chain...
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Release: Reform the Motor Vehicle Act to save lives, HUB Cycling
Local cycling charitable organization HUB Cycling – along with dozens of other stakeholders including Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health...
By Spacing -
Book Review – Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food
Editor: Rachel Rose (Anvil Press, 2017) Sustenance, edited by Poet Laureate of Vancouver Rachel Rose is a compilation of 231 short stories, poems...
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RELEASE: Vancouver Design Week announces dates and theme for 2018
Vancouver Design Week announces the dates for its 2018 edition – a return to a full festival program, and the first with a declared theme. The...
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Release: CoV Council Approves Historic Plan for Northeast False Creek
On February 13, Vancouver City Council voted to move forward with a bold plan for Northeast False Creek that will revitalize the waterfront neighbourhood...
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Vancouver’s Chinatown: The Dichotomy of Past and Present – Part 2
This is the second part of Spacing Vancouver’s Ulduz Maschaykh interview with prominent Real Estate Marketer and Art Collector Bob Rennie, Vancouver...
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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...
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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...
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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...
By grahammcgarva