Events

EVENTS – Letterings: Postal Code Reading, April 15, 12:30pm, SFU Burnaby

Each year we endeavour to bring Thursdays Writing Collective‘s work to an audience outside the Downtown Eastside via a publication. This year, due...

Rewilding a City

As a relatively young, modern city nestled between the North Shore mountains and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, it is not hard to imagine Vancouver’s...

Jane’s Walk 2014: Be a Walk Leader!

The 8th annual Jane’s Walk Festival will take place on May 2nd, 3rd & 4th in 100+ cities worldwide, including Vancouver! What is Jane’s Walk...

RELEASE: Live Opera Performance on SkyTrain – Sunday, March 9th, 11:30am

Join us on Sunday, March 9 to witness a slice of 18th century Italy on our very own SkyTrains! It’s sure to be one of the most surreal commutes...

Vancouver Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, March 9, 2014

It’s time for March’s Vancouver Urbanists Meetup. This month, we’ll be meeting on March 9th from 3-6:00pm at Malone’s Urban Drinkery in...

City of Surrey 2014 PARKit Design Challenge

The City of Surrey is pleased to announce the return of our pop-up park design-build competition, the 2014 PARKit Design Challenge. Individuals and groups...

Book Review – Jane’s Walk Annual: Volume One

“This book is about what can happen when people get together and go for a walk. In Guadalajara, they made a citizen’s crosswalk by tracking paint...

EVENT: SFU Urban Studies – Rethinking the Region seeks local perspective

What: Rethinking the Region workshop Where: SFU’s Surrey campus, 250-13450 102nd Ave, Surrey, room 5240 When: March 1, 2014, 8:30 a.m–3 p.m. A daylong...

RELEASE: Museum of Vancouver new exhibit ‘Rewilding Vancouver’ opens February 27th

The Vancouver we know is more culturally attuned to and integrated with nature than any city of a comparable size on earth. Despite this, our city has...

Building Resilient Cities: Effective Dialogue and Solutions Anticipated at the GLOBE 2014 Conference

Vancouver welcomes the GLOBE series, North America’s largest International Business & Sustainability Conference. The conference will be held at the...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Canron Building

Easing Congestion in Metro Vancouver: Prices Without Subsidies, February 25th

Via SFU Continuing Studies: Over the next 30 years, the Metro Vancouver region will grow by one million more people and add half a million jobs to the...