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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...
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February 8, 2013 Headlines
LOCAL • TransLink in the media: Ideas for funding [The Buzzer Blog] • Financing the Evergreen Line [Stephen Rees’s Blog] • Lights go down on the...
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International Call to Artists – Argo Cascades Public Art Project, Ann Arbor Public Art Commission
International Call to Artists – Argo Cascades Public Art Project, Ann Arbor Public Art Commission City of Ann Arbor, MI, USA Budget: $115,000 (all...
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10 questions to ask a transit planner
Cities are full of armchair transit planners — so much so, in fact, that the practice is derisively known as “drawing lines on a map.” But it’s far more...
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February 7, 2013 Headlines
LOCAL • How British Columbia trumped California for Olympics of ideas [Vancouver Observer] • Port Metro Vancouver and region square off over farmland...
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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered