Features
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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...
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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...
By Tessa Holloway -
“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...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Quesnel Council is hearing some backlash after voting to increase their pay cheques by...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Power washed murals, bike couriers, pavillions
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 -
World Wide Wednesday: Digital placemaking, highway canopy, ferris wheel
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 -
Toward a Culture of Wood Architecture
“There needs to be a strategic rethinking of how we design buildings in order to maximize the value of the materials and...
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Greenways in Surrey: a look at Quibble Creek
Greenways are still rather new in city planning. The term was coined in 1995, and the idea of planning urban pathways that don’t pander to the...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. New concerns are being raised that the planned handover of the existing blue box...
By Erick Villagomez