Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Ghettos, hospitals and green zoning
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Book Review – From The Stacks: Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
Author: Alan Berger (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Waste. We are all familiar with it. We deal with it daily when we throw away of the vast...
By Erick Villagomez -
A Vancouver “Extra” Special in Strathcona
Since it’s first appearance in 1965, the Vancouver Special has become a ubiquitous fixture of Vancouver’s urban landscape. With their flat...
By Yuri Artibise -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Great news for Kelowna’s Jewish community as the first candle is lit on the a...
By Erick Villagomez -
Grounded: The Work of Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg
Edited by Kelty McKinnon; with contributions by Michael Van Valkenburgh, Ken Greenberg, Jacqueline Hucker, Dr. Eduard Koegel, Bruce Kuwabara, Kelty...
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The VanDusen Garden Visitors Centre: Vancouver’s newest architectural iconic
Van Dusen Gardens is an iconic Vancouver destination representing the highest aspirations of West Coast green thumbs and admirers alike. The flowing...
By Cameron Barker -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The latest estimates suggest TransLink will end 2011 earning almost $26 million less...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Busways, SMS tickets and haikus
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Participate: Design with User-Generated Content
Participatory design requires user content for completion. Rather than deliver clean, finished products to a passive audience, participatory designers...
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Price Points: A Place that Matters
Where is this – and why does it matter? Enough to be worthy of a plaque that says so. . . Okay, easy guess on the location: it’s the Vancouver...
By Gordon Price -
Voices of Grandview-Woodlands
How well can you really know any neighbourhood? Yes, one can recite the history, the dates and times of developments, the influx of immigrants and the...
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“And the Winners are…”: re:CONNECT Stand-outs Announced!
By Brent Toderian Last week, at an event attended by over 300 Vancouverites, we announced the winners of our re:CONNECT Open Ideas Competition regarding...
By Brent Toderian