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Why Small Shops Along Broadway Are Getting Fried
This is a story about a little fast food shop for sale and its challenges. It’s also a story of what these obstacles mean for both commercial services...
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Vancouver Needs Way More Co-ops. Here’s How to Get Them
The cost of housing has reached a crisis point in Vancouver, with no clear agreement on what to do about it. Which made it a rare moment when...
By Patrick Condon -
Vancouver’s Dramatic New Plan for Broadway: Five Questions
The City of Vancouver’s Broadway Plan has been released for public comment and is full of dramatic proposals. Profusely illustrated, over 100 pages long...
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Tall Vancouver Tales Part I – How Vancouver Grew Up, with Donald Luxton
This past week, the Museum of Vancouver and the RAIC BC/Yukon put on its first talk in the new Architecture & the City Series, entitled Go Big or Go...
By Spacing -
Deconstructing Visuals 2.0
It’s been 10 months since I wrote Deconstructing Visuals. Within that piece, I argued that the architectural profession’s dominion over the methods and...
By Erick Villagomez -
Vancouver Plan – An Opportunity for Climate Input
The City of Vancouver is in the midst of the next phase of engagement for the Vancouver Plan, a planning process that will ultimately create a vision for...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
EVENT: Tall Vancouver Tales, featuring Donald Luxton
Tall Vancouver Tales, featuring Donald Luxton When: November 9th, 2021 7:00 – 8:30 Where: The Museum of Vancouver Tickets: $15 Join the RAIC and...
By Spacing -
Vancouver, Where Did Your Shophouses Go?
Once upon a time in Vancouver, it was common to stroll to a nearby street corner to pick up some groceries, candy, or even some compressed gas for fuel...
By Christopher Cheung -
Bauhaus, Design, and the Livable Anthropocene – Recap
[Authors Note: This recap is based in great part on a summation of the event provided by the organizer of the Colloquium and Exhibition, Prof. Thomas...
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The Virtual Urban Realm
The virtual urban realm is a digital version of the physical city. It is represented graphically and geographically in real-time, through collected data...
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EVENT: 2021 Margolese National Design for Living – October 22
2021 Margolese National Design for Living WHERE: Vogue Theatre – 918 Granville St, Vancouver, BC DATE & TIME: Friday, October 22, 6:30 p.m. PDT...
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On Mobility: Subways
The Problem and Scale The International Association of Public Transport, reported 53 billion passengers relying on mass transit systems globally in 2017...
By urbanreflections
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered