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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...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday
LOCAL • Condo creep comes right to the doorstep of Vancouver city hall with building by White Spot family empire [State of Vancouver] • Old growth logging...
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ECUAD TD Speaker Series presents Anne Chick: Design for Sustainable Change
DATE: March 5th , 7:30pm PLACE: Emily Carr University of Art & Design, South Building Auditorium (Room 301) Spurred by concerns of sustainability, the...
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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday
LOCAL • TransLink 101: Managing major roads and bridges in Metro Vancouver [The Buzzer Blog] • Vancouver cohousing complex draws concern [Vancouver...
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Video Vancouver: Jane Jacob on Visual Order, Art & Life
A short reading from The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. This copy published by Vintage Books, copyright 1961. Chapter 19, Visual...
By Yuri Artibise
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered