Neighbourhoods
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Release: Urban Futures Survey 2012 Launched – 40 Year Old Survey Legacy Lives On-line
It started in 1973. It happened again in 1990. And now it’s back. The third Greater Vancouver Urban Futures Opinion Survey has launched, but this time...
By Erick Villagomez -
Voices of Grandview-Woodlands
How well can you really know any neighbourhood? Yes, one can recite the history, the dates and times of developments, the influx of immigrants and the...
By Tessa Holloway -
Release: City of Vancouver Neighbourhood Matching Fund Fall deadline October 31, 2011
The Vancouver Park Board is now accepting applications for the fall deadline of the Neighbourhood Matching Fund. The Fund supports projects by...
By Erick Villagomez -
Studio Marpole: Looking at Marpole through the eyes of UBC design students
It is customary for different groups to be involved in development projects that will greatly affect the existing urban fabric of a city or a...
By John Bautista -
The Viaducts: Past, Present and Future – Part 2
This is the second part of a series – in tandem with In Focus: The Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts photo essay – looking at the past, present...
By Brian Gould -
The Viaducts: Past, Present and Future – Part 3
This is the third and final part of a series – in tandem with In Focus photo essays – looking at the past, present and future of the Georgia...
By Brian Gould -
The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 5: Epilogue
Locally, the public is constantly bombarded by politicians and municipal officials who state that they are doing everything within their means to tackle...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 4: Affordability in Vancouver
So far in this series, I’ve discussed affordability and its relationship to population diversity as well as the complex interaction between the...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Costs of Unaffordability – Part 3: Affordability and Environment
One of Vancouver’s greatest attributes is the environment in which it sits. The beauty and splendour of the mountains and ocean that are so intricately...
By Erick Villagomez