Features
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Urban Planet: Energy Use Mapping
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of  blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
By Hilary Best -
Vancouver Dialogues Project
The Vancouver Dialogues Project is an initiative taken by the City of Vancouver to create a conversation of understanding between Vancouver’s many...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Price Points: the Bewildering Birth of Metrotown
The last in our series on Burnaby’s urban centres (Brentwood, Lougheed, Edmonds) based on the work of David Pereira. This week: Metrotown.Â...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Moscow’s Human Chain
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of  blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Olympic Cities and Advanced City-Making – Part 2
[Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a multi-part series by Brent Toderian who will be sharing his direct observations on the challenges and...
By Brent Toderian -
Olympic Cities and Advanced City-Making – Part 1
[Editor’s Note: With the London 2012 Summer Olympics fast approaching and our Winter Olympic experience two years behind us, we are happy to have...
By Brent Toderian -
A City that Runs on Itself
[Editor’s Note: We are glad to be present the second part of the newest Tyee Series written by the University of British Columbia’s Patrick...
By Spacing -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. With spring and summer fast approaching, the City of Burnaby is inviting local residents...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Yarn Bombs
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of  blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Walk the talk
Food is intrinsically linked to place, whether it is agricultural land, rivers, or oceans. Interest in sustainable foods and food security has increased...
By Ren Thomas -
Urban Planet: Underground Parks
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of  blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Instant Cities
Author: Herbert Wright (Black Dog Publishing, 2008) The city is perhaps the most compelling achievement of human civilization; now home to more than...
By Larraine Henning