Features
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Book Review: A History of Future Cities
Author: Daniel Brook (W.W. Norton, 2013) Shanghai, Dubai, Mumbai and St. Petersburg might not seem like the most obvious combination of cities to look...
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Disasters by the Book
Would you be able to rely on your neighbors in the event an earthquake struck your home? How helpful would public institutions remain if a flood swept...
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The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 2
The first part of this series ended with the introduction of Vancouver Transportation Study (VTS), a report that included the destruction of the...
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The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 1
The post-WWII North American cities saw a decentralization of the Central Business District (CBD). This, in turn, saw an increase of private automobile...
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Wanted: Past Residents for a 100th Birthday Party
Nikki Renshaw is throwing a party to celebrate her house’s 100th birthday, she is planning the best party and biggest party of the year, the arrangements...
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Book Review – Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Ghosts and Gardens
Author: Eve Lazarus (Anvil Press, 2012) I’m a sucker for local history books. Whenever I travel I try and find a book store or museum gift shop to look...
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Cartographically Speaking – Safety in Numbers: Why a Bike Lane in Kitsilano?
By Jen Cook & Holly Foxcroft In the heart of Kitsilano, a rumbling started to occur in reaction to the city project to create a safe link between the...
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Playing in the Sandbox
The process of urban planning has always been a bit of a mystery to me and I don’t believe I am the only one to feel this way. The technical...
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Book Review – Small Town Architect
“There are now many paths for the architectural practitioner of today. The recent and future graduates in architecture will now have a different...
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Cartographically Speaking: Vancouver Building Footprints
My sincerest apologies to all the map- and info-geeks out there that have followed Cartographically Speaking over the years and have had to endure the...
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Cartographically Speaking: Mapping Neighbourhood Character Buildings
The buildings in a city give it character and form. They stand as the structures that produce personal recollections of a streets and neighbourhoods. In...
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Photographer Takes Millions of Images, Documenting Vancouver Street Life
“I only shoot people who look like they want their picture taken” – Foncie Pulice Before we had smart phones to capture spontaneous moments of human...
By Jillian Glover