Events
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MOV Upcycled Urbanism, Second Workshop – March 10th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Hallucinating in Public: creating environments that are beautiful and...
By Spacing -
SFU City Conversations: The Pidgin Restaurant in the DTES—March 7, 2013
The Pidgin Restaurant in the DTES: Gentrification? Opportunity? The recently opened Pidgin Restaurant has seen nightly protests by some residents of the...
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ECUAD TD Speaker Series presents Anne Chick: Design for Sustainable Change
DATE: March 5th , 7:30pm PLACE: Emily Carr University of Art & Design, South Building Auditorium (Room 301) Spurred by concerns of sustainability, the...
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Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series, March 3rd
Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series Sunday, March 3rd – 2:00PM – 4:00PM @ MOV (1100 Chestnut St)Â...
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Jim Green Memorial Lecture: Observations in Community Development — February 26, 2013
Jim Green Memorial Lecture by Ken Lyotier February 26, 2013 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM FREE, but an RSVPÂ is encouraged. Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Goldcorp...
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‘Art Mob’ at Van Dusen Gardens – February 23rd
Email: awalkintheforest13@gmail.com Blog (with background information on the site; we will post all artwork and comments submitted)...
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CivicMeet Vancouver #3: ‘Pop’ goes the Community — February 26th
Are pop-ups the spam of the urban cultural scene? Come participate in an open space conversation about pop-ups and other physical interventions in our...
By Yuri Artibise -
Bjarke Ingels at Robson Square – February 21
Westbank presents a Public Open House to witness the evolution of the Beach & Howe project designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, BIG in...
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Gentrification and the City Speaker Series, Spring 2013
Via the SFU Urban Studies blog: Gentrification is typically associated with change in inner city housing markets. The goal of this speaker series is to...
By Yuri Artibise -
Housing Justice Dialogue #1 – February 20, 2013
Via Housing Justice Canada: Responses to Films Created by Young Artists on the Housing Crisis in Metro Vancouver A screening of youth artist films on...
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Retrofitting Suburbia
The re-population of major urban centres in North America is a great success story of innovative thinking and good design. From the ruins of the...
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SFU City Program, Warren Gill Memorial Lecture – Is Public Space a Public Good?
Public space is routinely seen as the cure to every imaginable urban ill, from air quality to obesity. But how much of what we call public space is really...
By Erick Villagomez