Features
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Where Happiness and Urban Design Intersect: An Interview with Happy City Author, Charles Montgomery
Charles Montgomery is a man with an obsession. He’s spent years investigating the link between cities and happiness. Montgomery’s findings...
By Liz Vossen -
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...
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Book Review – Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer (MIT Press, 2011) This is a small book of a hundred or so pages that offers 100 bits of advice on how cities...
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Cartographically Speaking – 3D Vancouver
For a larger image, click here. A few months back, I felt like experimenting with different representation methods. Inspired by one of my favorite...
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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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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...
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Lani Russwurm’s Awesome Vancouver
When Lani Russwurm jumped online in 2008 he was one of the first to write about history in his blog Past Tense. Vancouver is Awesome, and last year he...
By Eve Lazarus -
Book Review – Raincoast Chronicles #22: Saving Salmon, Sailors and Souls: Stories of Service on the BC Coast
Editor: David R. Conn (Harbour Publishing, 2013) It is always a delight to get a hold of a new Raincoast Chronicles. No matter what the theme, there is...
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Train Tracks: Rituals, Rules and Ridership on the West Coast Express
Every day starts like this: You arrive at the station, at the same time, every day. You pull into your parking stall, pay for your numbered space, and...
By sarahnelson -
Cartographically Speaking: Commuting Locally
Click here for a larger image. No better way to start off 2014 than with some map- and data-geekery. Last week, Vancouver Sun’s Chad Skelton...
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The French Quarter Parklet — Vancouver’s newest parklet melts cycling and chocolate together at last!
The City of Vancouver has embarked on a Parklet Pilot Program, under the VIVA Vancouver program, that provides funding to interested applicants who wish...
By Cameron Barker -
One Planet Vancouver, 2030 – Part 6 Finale
[This 6 part series was written in 2007 and is set in 2030. It describes one scenario of how Vancouver became a One Planet City—a city that uses only its...
By Ruben