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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Tuesday
LOCAL • TransLink 101: Where do our transit vehicles sleep at night? [The Buzzer Blog] • Casino battleground [Globe and Mail] CANADA • How can Toronto...
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MOV Upcycled Urbanism, Second Workshop – March 10th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Hallucinating in Public: creating environments that are beautiful and...
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SFU City Conversations: The Pidgin Restaurant in the DTES—March 7, 2013
The Pidgin Restaurant in the DTES: Gentrification? Opportunity? The recently opened Pidgin Restaurant has seen nightly protests by some residents of the...
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Revitalized Public Market Helps New Westminster Get Back to its Roots
When you think of suburbs, you don’t typically think of a charming, local shopping experience. Big box stores, retail chains and sprawling parking...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday
LOCAL • How Vancouver and Surrey lost high-profile casino bids in the past two years [Globe and Mail] • Imagine Surrey: Four talks about the new Surrey...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Sunday
LOCAL • West Hastings and Richards – north east corner [Changing Vancouver] INTERNATIONAL • WSJ, Citi Name Medellín ‘City of the Year’ [Urban...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Saturday
LOCAL • TransLink 101: What’s the deal with fare zones? [The Buzzer Blog] • Local entrepreneurs quietly celebrate Downtown Eastside improvements...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. City of North Vancouver council approved the rezoning and renovation of an industrial...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday
LOCAL • UBC joins Vancouver in call for Broadway subway line [Vancouver Courier] • Telus’s new $750-million development will tap waste heat from its...
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BIG Tower wins Architecture Award
The Beach and Howe Tower concept design by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) & DIALOG for the north end of the Granville Bridge has received the World...
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CoV: 2013 Cultural Infrastructure Grant – Deadline May 3rd
2013 CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT In the first four years of this program, $3.6million in grants to 92 projects has leveraged ~$20million cultural space...
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Video Vancouver: The Gruen Effect. Victor Gruen and the Shopping Mall
Victor Gruen was maybe the most influential architect of the twentieth century: He is regarded as the father of the shopping mall. How fundamentally his...
By Caroline Toth
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered