Features
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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...
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First steps in becoming an expert transit rider
True expertise in riding a transit system takes time, patience, and lots of careful observation. It is not achieved overnight.
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Work begins on the Urbanists Guide to Vancouver
The suggestions, ideas and insights are in. Now the re:place team is getting to work to compile the Urbanists Guide to Vancouver. By the re:place team
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How we get to work – transit, biking and walking in Metro Vancouver
What better way to start off 2009 than with another map. Given how the unexpected snowy weather seemed to paralyze this fine city of ours over the...
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Conclusion – Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance
As an epilogue to the Downtown Historic Railway story, TransitFan asked Dale Laird, Vice-President of the Transit Museum Society (TRAMS), about potential...
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A Song for Jorn
By Sean Ruthen “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet Prince…” Perhaps it is presumptuous to say, but there is an inherent stubbornness in the...
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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 6)
Dale Laird’s dream of a historic railway in Vancouver became a reality through the contributions of four different groups: Seattle residents Byron Cole...
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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 5)
The Downtown Historic Railway has been an incredible success over the past ten years. Riders love riding in the historic interurban cars. And so do all...
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Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 4)
In an incredible coincidence, the two interurban cars coupled together for the last revenue ride run in Vancouver back in 1958 are the same ones now used...
By John Calimente