Neighbourhoods
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Generation Rent: San Francisco’s Citizen Tenants
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
By Jackie Wong -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq is now emphatically aware of Kamloops...
By Yuri Artibise -
West End draft community plan is online
The City of Vancouver’s draft community plan for the West End is now online. The plan sketches out a direction for the neighbourhood over the next 30...
By Spacing -
The Vancouver Connection to an American Housing Project
Tonight, Tuesday October 22nd, VHF will be showing “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” at the Hollywood Theatre on Broadway as part of our Architecture & Design...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Mayor Garry Litke got a very small taste of life on the streets of Penticton in a...
By Yuri Artibise -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Chilliwack residents are being urged to weigh in with their opinion about the way the...
By Yuri Artibise -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Proponents of the Gibsons Public Market are counting on some well-heeled Coast residents...
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review – Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall
Author: Rosten Woo and Meredith Tenhoor with Damion Rich (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010) Who knew that such a small and unassuming book could cut...
By Jeremy Senko -
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 -
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
If Chuck Davis was Mr. Vancouver, then James Johnstone should be Mr. East End, because no one knows the area better. James is a house researcher who lives...
By Eve Lazarus -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. A cross-Island E&N trail could help steer tourists into Nanaimo into the cycling...
By Yuri Artibise -
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