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Poster campaign promotes 50 ideas for a new city
Check out these amazing posters that were put up all over New York City to help promote ideas for a new city. The project was launched and hosted by Urban...
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February 12, 2013 Headlines
LOCAL • Higher-paying jobs, leasing options among ways to make Vancouver housing affordable [Vancouver Sun] • Community-centre surplus divides city [Globe...
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VPSN: Robson Square. Us + You + Summertime. Want to Collaborate?
The City of Vancouver has recently posted a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEOI) related to the summertime activation of the 800-block of Robson...
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Retrofitting Suburbia
The re-population of major urban centres in North America is a great success story of innovative thinking and good design. From the ruins of the...
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February 11, 2013 Headlines
LOCAL • Another year, another TransLink funding proposal [Fraseropolis] • Five Ideas to Make Vancouver More Affordable [The Tyee] INTERNATIONAL • A US...
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February 10, 2013 Headlines
INTERNATIONAL • The Birth and Growth of City Planning [KCET] • Has New Urbanism Killed Land Use Law? [Legal Planet] • Summoning Nature for Healing [The...
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February 9, 2013 Headlines
LOCAL • B.C. Housing pledges to fix problems at low-income rentals [Vancouver Courier] • Six-storey buildings at Main and 33rd too high, residents say...
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SFU City Program, Warren Gill Memorial Lecture – Is Public Space a Public Good?
Public space is routinely seen as the cure to every imaginable urban ill, from air quality to obesity. But how much of what we call public space is really...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Campbell River city council is considering almost doubling its tax exemption area for...
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Video Vancouver: God Created Transit
A response to the Ram “Farmer” commercial which premiered during the NFL Super Bowl XLVII.
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Video Vancouver: The Village, A Co-op Housing Documentary
The Village is one of many short films created by a group of young media-makers discussing the housing crisis in Vancouver, BC, Canada, as part of...
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Urban Planet: Can bike-share programs overcome the helmet hurdle?
Bike-share programs have really been taking off in North America over the past few years, but not in municipalities with strict helmet laws. This article...
By Jonathan Zettel
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered