Infrastructure
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Moving In Metro: A Discussion on Mobility Pricing, October 22, 24, 28, 29
Metro Vancouver is a region that relies on many modes of transportation to keep its economy, and its people moving; from trucks to trains to cars to...
By Yuri Artibise -
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...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Video Vancouver: Move
3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3...
By Caroline Toth -
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...
By curtisscott -
Disasters by the Book
Would you be able to rely on your neighbors in the event an earthquake struck your home? How helpful would public institutions remain if a flood swept...
By YarOn Stern -
The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 2
The first part of this series ended with the introduction of Vancouver Transportation Study (VTS), a report that included the destruction of the...
By curtisscott -
Introducing Park-A-Park: Vancouver’s Recently Launched Mobile Parklet
If you’ve visited Vancouver’s Commercial Drive recently, and walked by the southwest corner where East 1st Avenue crosses The Drive, you may have caught...
By Liz Vossen -
The End of Hogan’s Alley – Part 1
The post-WWII North American cities saw a decentralization of the Central Business District (CBD). This, in turn, saw an increase of private automobile...
By curtisscott -
Video Vancouver: ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ Earth Animation
This is the animation done by Globaïa for the short film ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ commissionned for the Planet Under Pressure conference...
By Caroline Toth -
Smart Cities, Technology, and Open Everything—August 8
Via Museum of Vancouver. Special Guest Speaker: Evgeny Morozov With Discussants: David Ascher (Mozilla Foundation), Andrea Reimer (Councillor, City of...
By Yuri Artibise -
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 -
Cartographically Speaking – Safety in Numbers: Why a Bike Lane in Kitsilano?
By Jen Cook & Holly Foxcroft In the heart of Kitsilano, a rumbling started to occur in reaction to the city project to create a safe link between the...
By Spacing