History
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Zoning Must Evolve – Part 4
Zoning for Resiliency Zoning regulation in Vancouver is like playing Monopoly. We can purchase the little green pieces (which represents a monopoly on...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Part 3
Vancouver’s housing market is obscenely broken. Time has run out for those left behind who have inherited a cruel reality where housing costs steal their...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Part 2
The Aftermath – “Green Profits” Redevelopment on large post-Expo 86 sites (North Shore of False Creek and Coal Harbor), the let go...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Part 1
“To Serve and Protect” – The Before Times Our shared affordable housing challenge is becoming a wicked problem. We’re not there yet, but...
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Zoning Must Evolve – Introduction
Vancouver’s Worst Zoning – 4743 Belmont Avenue, Vancouver (recently sold for $42 million). Image Credit: boomerinvancouver.com $42 Million? Really...
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Graphic Novella: You Forgot About Me! – Part 2
By Scot Hein with illustrations by J.G. This is the second part of a two-part graphic novella, here offered as a backgrounder that introduces development...
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Graphic Novella: You Forgot About Me! – Part 1
By Scot Hein with illustrations by J.G. This three-part graphic novella, “You Forgot About Me!” is offered as a backgrounder that introduces...
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Book Review: Wallpaper* City Guide Vancouver
Text by Hadani Ditmars (Phaidon Press, 2019) A tightly edited, discreetly packaged selection of city highlights for the design-conscious visitor. Each...
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Book Review | Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design
Author: Kristina Wilson (Princeton University Press, 2021) In Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in...
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Cartographically Speaking – Vancouver’s District Lots
For a larger image click here. Any aspiring urban historian or property owner looking to renovate will quickly encounter the confusing smattering of...
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Book Review – Glorious Birds: A Celebratory Homage to Harold and Maude
Author: Heidi Greco (Anvil Press, 2021) During the early 1970s, Hollywood experienced a transformation of thematic motives and ideas in the performing...
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Video Vancouver: A Short History of Sen̓áḵw, 1869 – 1966
Via Michael Gordon In what is now central Vancouver, Canada, an Indian Reserve [now referred to as Sen̓áḵw] was established in 1869 by the Dominion...
By Yuri Artibise