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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • The New Skyline: Ian Gillespie’s Vision [Vancouver Magazine] • Vancouver experiment in affordable condos fails to live up to hype [The...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • B.C. mayors given powers over fare increases, 10-year visions for TransLink [Globe and Mail] • The End of the Region as we know it – 6: Tsawwassen...
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Video: Happy Vancouver
This video, set to“Happy,” the Pharrell William’s song from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, celebrates everyday Vancouverites.
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
LOCAL • No nays recorded for this move to improved horse-and-carriage transit in Stanley Park [State of Vancouver] • Social enterprises, real-estate deals...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesdayed
LOCAL • Vancouver’s housing market strongly dependent on Chinese economy: Conference Board of Canada [Business in Vancouver] • The New Point Grey Road ...
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Vancouver Winter
White out conditions, Vancouver, BC / Photo by Byron Barrett Contribute photos to Spacing Vancouver’s Flickr Pool
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Rewilding a City
As a relatively young, modern city nestled between the North Shore mountains and surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, it is not hard to imagine Vancouver’s...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • Farmland protection isn’t always a benefit to farmers [Globe and Mail] • Former Van Foundation leader becomes interim chair for PHS: “Preserve...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Weekend
LOCAL • The new PHS board and agenda of its first meeting [State of Vancouver] • The world’s biggest incinerator debacles. Could it happen to Metro...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • PHS top executives made up to $186,000 a year, deserved it because they worked so hard, said board chair [State of Vancouver] • Are PHS social...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
LOCAL • Downtown Eastside plan “is at least a start,” say residents [State of Vancouver] • Years of tension preceded current messy situation between PHS...
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Book Review – Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer (MIT Press, 2011) This is a small book of a hundred or so pages that offers 100 bits of advice on how cities...
By johnatkin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered