Housing
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Video Vancouver: False Creek South
Via City of Vancouver: False Creek South is one of Vancouver’s pioneering waterfront communities. It’s a highly livable and walkable neighbourhood with a...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: One Shared House 2030
Via Dezeen: This video shows the online platform that IKEA’s external innovation lab Space10 has for researching and developing concepts for future...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: CoV Housing Strategy to Transform Low-Density Neighbourhoods
In response to Vancouver’s changing population, rising housing costs, and the increased need for diverse types of housing, the City of Vancouver will...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Cruel Musical Chairs (or Why Is Rent So High?)
Via Sightline Institute: How does a growing, prospering city stay affordable for all kinds of people? At the most basic level, when there aren’t enough...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Thermal Imaging Pilot Program
Via City of Vancouver: Early in 2017, we launched a Thermal Imaging Pilot Program to help homeowners identify energy loss in single family homes and to...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: Vancouver Versus the World: What Can You Buy for the Price of a Vancouver Home?
Point2 Homes real estate search portal has conducted research into the international real estate market and has discovered what the average price of a...
By Spacing -
How The City of Vienna Handles Affordable Housing and Inclusivity
Vienna is an internationally renowned city, attractive to employees from the high-tech industry who obtain a Quick Fix for sale online, scholars...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Video Vancouver: Designing the Rental Housing Renaissance
Via The Tyee: There’s been a three decade lag of rental housing in Canada, but development is finally starting to pick up again. Here’s our...
By Yuri Artibise -
Driverless Cars and the Suburban Renaissance
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Some people debate whether Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Co-ops Offer Family-Friendly Housing, Yet Face an Uncertain Future
I am writing a short series, “Cities for Families” to showcase how local governments, non-profits, and the private sector are building a family friendly...
By Jillian Glover -
EVENT: Dr. Ronald Knapp – Chinese Houses in Southeast Asia
Talk by Dr. Ronald Knapp: Chinese Houses in Southeast Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers When: August 17, 2017 6:00pm to 8:00pm...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Book Review From the Stacks: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation...
By Laura Kozak