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Vancouver Transit: The Era of Street Cars
Vancouver is a rapidly growing city with increasing demand for more efficient, more reliable public transit. Since the success of a temporary street car...
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Video Vancouver: SkyTrain—Then and Now
A video of the then and now of the SkyTrain. A side-by-side along the tracks in 1986 and 2012. (via The Vancouver Sun)
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • Reducing greenhouse gas ‘remains a challenge’ for Port Metro Vancouver [Vancouver Sun] • City of Richmond eyeing new $110 million seniors/aquatic...
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MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism needs Event Day Volunteers
BE PART OF A SPECTACULAR PUBLIC SPACE TRANSFORMATION! After months of exciting and creative participatory design workshops, MOV and our partners are now...
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PARKit Design Challenge
This past month, the City of Surrey unveiled the winners of PARKit, an ideas competition in which first prize was to design and build a pop-up park next...
By Sean Ruthen -
Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • Tsawassen’s “small town” centre [Fraseropolis] • Cycling expert touts Vancouver’s innovation [Vancouver Sun] • No cars, but lots of wheels on...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Saturday
LOCAL • New Westminster’s parkade problem [Metro 604] • Transit tax measure: Likely failure? Then why start? [Price Tags] • Question: Can a tax...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. An annual arts festival expected to attract up to 200,000 people to downtown Victoria...
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Release: West End BIA Launches New Brand
New branding puts the “WE” in West End – creating a powerful, unique and unifying identity for the business community. The West End Business Improvement...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
LOCAL • Guest post from Frank Ducote: A stunning transformation is planned for Grandview-Woodlands. Is the community really ready for this? [State of...
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Placemaking Opportunity – The Triangle / “Frame” Space at Adanac & Commercial, June 13
Placemaking Opportunity – The Triangle / “Frame” Space WHEN: Thursday, June 13 WHERE: Adanac & Commercial RVSP...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
LOCAL • A primer on parking regulations around Metro Vancouver [Metro 604] • Why a referendum on TransLink funding must be rejected [Metro 604] • Planning...
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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered