Features
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Vancouver’s Dramatic New Plan for Broadway: Five Questions
The City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan has been released for public comment and is full of dramatic proposals. Profusely illustrated, over 100 pages long...
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Deconstructing Visuals 2.0
It’s been 10 months since I wrote Deconstructing Visuals. Within that piece, I argued that the architectural profession’s dominion over the methods and...
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Vancouver Plan – An Opportunity for Climate Input
The City of Vancouver is in the midst of the next phase of engagement for the Vancouver Plan, a planning process that will ultimately create a vision for...
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Graphic Novella: You Forgot About Me! – Part 3
By Scot Hein with illustrations by J.G. This is the final part of a three-part graphic novella, bookending the Zoning Must Evolve series and offered as a...
By scothein -
Zoning Must Evolve – Part 5
Demonstrated Resiliency – False Creek South False Creek South (FSC) was borne from Vancouver’s humanist legacy that includes Greenpeace...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Part 4
Zoning for Resiliency Zoning regulation in Vancouver is like playing Monopoly. We can purchase the little green pieces (which represents a monopoly on...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Part 3
Vancouver’s housing market is obscenely broken. Time has run out for those left behind who have inherited a cruel reality where housing costs steal their...
By scothein -
Zoning Must Evolve – Part 1
“To Serve and Protect” – The Before Times Our shared affordable housing challenge is becoming a wicked problem. We’re not there yet, but...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Introduction
Vancouver’s Worst Zoning – 4743 Belmont Avenue, Vancouver (recently sold for $42 million). Image Credit: boomerinvancouver.com $42 Million? Really...
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Graphic Novella: You Forgot About Me! – Part 2
By Scot Hein with illustrations by J.G. This is the second part of a two-part graphic novella, here offered as a backgrounder that introduces development...
By scothein -
Graphic Novella: You Forgot About Me! – Part 1
By Scot Hein with illustrations by J.G. This three-part graphic novella, “You Forgot About Me!” is offered as a backgrounder that introduces...
By scothein -
Understanding Affordability: A Partial Picture – Bertaud’s Response
EDITOR’S NOTE: On December 20, 2019, I published Understanding Affordability: A Partial Picture. The piece focused on implementing the method used...
By Erick Villagomez