Neighbourhoods
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Event: Cambie Street Bridge Warming, Nov. 24th
Cambie Street Bridge Warming Date & Time: Friday, November 24th, 3pm-8pm Location: Underneath the south side of the Cambie Bridge, between 1st and 2nd...
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Building Resilience, One Block at a Time
For several years, I lived on a residential street near Danforth Avenue (Greek Town) in Toronto. It was a welcoming street of older single-family homes...
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Vancouver 2.0
Tucked into the north-east corner of Vancouver lies the unassuming neighbourhood of Hastings-Sunrise. Bound by the waters of the Burrard Inlet to the...
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Warren Gill Lecture Series: What is happening to my neighbourhood? December 1, 2017
The Annual Warren Gill Lecture Series Presented by Simon Fraser University’s City Program What is happening to my neighbourhood? The socio-spatial...
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Release: DVBIA’s Perch Program fetches positive feedback
How do you feel when you are in this space? That’s one of the questions that the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) asked...
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Copenhagen: Textbook Urbanism
Jan Gehl is probably the best tour guide you could ever hope for in Copenhagen. And so it was, after luxuriating over a couple of long lunches together...
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Release: Bike to Work Week, Oct 23-29
Bike to Work Week DATE: Oct. 23 – 29 TIME: 6:30-9:00am, 7:00-9:30am or 4:00-6:00pm LOCATION: Across Metro Vancouver. Complete list here. WHAT...
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Event: The Future of Punjabi Market, Nov 1 & 2
Via LOCO BC: The Punjabi Market is rapidly changing. Is the change for the better or it is going away from tradition? How do we honour the past, and dream...
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Event: Hope In Shadows Celebrate 15 Years, Oct 11
Hope in Shadows Award Ceremony and 15th Annual Calendar Launch When: Wednesday, October 11th at 10:30 a.m. Where: Theatre Room, Carnegie Community Centre...
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Video Vancouver: Disappearing Main Street
Via CBC News: These Vancouver photographers have been documenting Main Street since 2011 — and it’s disappearing David Niddrie and Jen Okrusko have...
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Book Review: What Makes a Great City
Author: Alexander Garvin (Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2016) Alexander Garvin is an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Architecture...
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EVENT: Volunteer Downtown Public Space & Public Life Study with CoV and Gehl, Sept 14 & 16
Public Space & Public Life Study Shifts: Thursday, Sept 14 and Saturday, Sept 16 Training: Wednesday, Sept 13 from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the Roundhouse...
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