Features
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Pedestrianism is spreading across the land as the City of Courtenay staff start...
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World Wide Wednesday: Stolen bridges and brutalist preservation
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 -
Socialist Modernism
Edited by: Inka Schube (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010) After five years of traveling Eastern Europe and Russia as a magazine photographer and scholar, Roman...
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Vancouver Helps Launch the CanU
If this article is the first you’ve heard of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, you’re not alone. Its board is a veritable who’s who of...
By Brian Gould -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Simon Fraser University has a new table…..periodic table, that is. The giant interactive...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Participatory budgeting and underground parks
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: Block by Block
Not another Jane Jacobs review. Unfortunately yes. If you are reading this blog, chances are high that you have a dog-eaten copy of Death & Life...
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Hastings Street: The Pulse of a Community
Downtown Eastside has come to be known as “Canada’s Poorest Postal Code”. The area radiating from the intersection at Main and Hastings has gained...
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Price Points: Facelift
Where is it, and what is it? This is Yaletown Park (see map), and the sculture is Eros Bendato Scrippolato (Eros blindfolded and cracked) by Igor...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Road ecology and city night moves
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 Pairing: Community Character: Principles for Design and Planning and A Practical Guide to Planning with Community Character
Authors: Lane H. Kendig and Bret C. Keast (Island Press, 2010/2011) Two books by Lane H. Kendig and Bret C. Keast, Community Character and A Guide to...
By Kevin Zhang