Neighbourhoods
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Support a new public space in Commercial Drive!
There is an exciting project coming to Commercial Drive on 2014! The Commercial Drive Parklet is one of the selected projects from VIVA Vancouver’s...
By Alicia Medina Laddaga -
Cartographically Speaking: Variation in Food Access for Vancouver Neighbourhoods
For a larger image, click here. In the sunshine summer of 2013, I was summoned by my professor and given an interesting task: to roam the supermarkets and...
By chenzhuo -
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