Housing
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LOHA Housing + Sharing Storytelling Event, Oct 22nd
SHARING is a hot topic these days! Think of the way companies like Car2Go, Airbnb, Grupon and Kickstarter are changing how we live, work, move and spend...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Booming Vancouver: The Beginning of the Vancouver Special
Much of Vancouver has been shaped by periodic large influxes of residents, resulting in major housing booms. Much like today with the on going...
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LOHA Housing Tour, September 14, 2013
Where does Vancouver’s creative community live and work? Join the Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) for a Housing Tour on September 14th...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 3
The second part of this three-part series described the rise and reaction against the Vancouver Transportation Study (VTS), proposed during 1967. A...
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Video Vancouver: View Finder
Here is a worst case scenario if Vancouver keeps chipping away at its iconic mountain views. -Rob Howatson
By Caroline Toth -
City Conversations: Development, Density, Dollars: What do residents get?, August 1, 2013
Via SFU City Conversations: A regularly-heard Vancouver refrain is that greedy developers are destroying our city’s vaunted quality of life, and that...
By Yuri Artibise -
West Coast Modernism: Showing Vancouver some Mid-Century Love
Starting in the late 1940’s after years of war and economic struggle, the appearance of the North American family home began to change. Post war...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Video Vancouver: Smaller House Initiative
Smaller houses on smaller lots could once again make housing affordable for young families, and at the same time provide suitable detached suites for...
By Yuri Artibise -
Playing in the Sandbox
The process of urban planning has always been a bit of a mystery to me and I don’t believe I am the only one to feel this way. The technical...
By Natalia Zdaniuk -
Cartographically Speaking: Vancouver Building Footprints
My sincerest apologies to all the map- and info-geeks out there that have followed Cartographically Speaking over the years and have had to endure the...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • Vancouver looks to fire hall as site for affordable housing [Globe and Mail] • More transit needed for eastern downtown [Vancouver Courier] â€...
By Spacing -
Be an Urban Explorer in Your Own Town
VHF would like to thank this weeks’ guest writer, Karen Russell – Urban Planner. Have you ever walked through a residential neighbourhood...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation