Features
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Seattle’s Central Link light rail system finally arrives
While awaiting the imminent public opening of the Canada Line next Monday, TransitFan decided to check out the history behind a major new addition to...
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Green Infrastructure: Paying for Utopia
By Adam Cooper, Planning Pool The term ‘green infrastructure’ typically conjures up ideas of LEED-buildings, green roofs, grey-water recycling and...
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Burrard Bridge lane reallocation first salvo in a long battle
TransitFan has been pondering the question of why the Burrard Bridge lane-reallocation trial has been drawing so much heated debate over the last few...
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The Miss Guides
Text and photos by Sean Ruthen, re:place magazine “…the creative possibilities inherent in repetition, and particular environments and moments in time.â€...
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Goodbye Arthur Erickson
Text and photos by Sean Ruthen, re:place magazine As a musician studying architecture at UBC over a decade ago, I was not overly surprised at that time to...
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This summer belongs to the bike
Article and photos by Leszek Apouchtine, re:place magazine With city council recently approving a slew of bike-friendly initiatives, it would appear that...
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Kingsway: Building footprint figure-ground
Kingsway is one of the most significant streets in Metro Vancouver. With its rich history that pre-dates European arrival and its unique diagonal urban...
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Office Space
By Erick Villagomez, re:place magazine Places of work are as important to the proper functioning of cities as places of dwelling, playing, and gathering...
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Remembering Jane
By Sean Ruthen, re:place magazine Photos by Barbara Stewart The first weekend of May this year offered Vancouver a number of activities to indulge in – a...
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The future of urban planning is open source
By Erick Villagomez, re:place magazine Cities, by their very nature, are always in a state of change. Responding to the myriad of internal and external...
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Vancouver’s solar neighbourhoods
Although there is a lot of international praise for Vancouver urban design excellence, it is often focused on the events within the past three decades...
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Recess
by Sean Ruthen Mark Twain once said that you should never let your schooling come between you and your education. Given our present age of economic...
By Sean Ruthen