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January Urbanist Meetup—Sunday, January 13, 2013, 3pm-5pm
Happy New Year! What better way to start off the year than by getting together with your fellow urbanists at January’s Vancouver Urbanist Meetup...
By Yuri Artibise -
International Call for Artists – SkySong Temporary Public Art Project, Scottsdale Public Art
International Call for Artists – SkySong Temporary Public Art Project, Scottsdale Public Art Scottsdale, AZ, USA Budget: Approximately $150,000 USD...
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Urban Planet: Soda bottle lights
In low income communities across the globe, natural light is often unavailable in windowless homes crowded together under corrugated metal roofs. Even on...
By Jonathan Zettel -
January 9, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • City explains housing project at former Ramada [Vancouver Courier] • Cost and convenience won’t add up to increased transit ridership [Vancouver...
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Urban Planet: Walkability boosts city’s ecomony
After being hit hard by the national housing crisis, the city of Lancaster in California, was looking for ways to grow. With the newly built Lancaster...
By Jonathan Zettel -
Call for Artists – Port Metro Vancouver Low Level Road Construction Project, North Vancouver
Call for Artists – Port Metro Vancouver, Low Level Road Construction Project City of North Vancouver, BC Budget: $30,000 Deadline: January 18, 2013...
By Erick Villagomez -
Echoes Across Seymour
Author: Janet Pavlik, Desmond Smith and Eileen Smith (Harbour Publishing, 2012) A couple of years back I interviewed Charles Van Sandwyk in his Deep Cove...
By Eve Lazarus -
January 8, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Misunderstood Metro faces uphill climb in 2013 [Surrey North Delta Leader] • Failure to account for “fugitive” methane gas could undercut...
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Call for Artists – City of Seattle seeks two or three-dimensional artwork
Call for Artists, City of Seattle seeks two or three-dimensional artwork depicting weather-related or atmospheric phenomena for purchase Seattle Office of...
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Walkable winter cities when the weather is frightful!
A couple of weeks ago Vancouver was hit by a significant (at least by our standards) and unexpected snowfall. For a city more used to being wet than...
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January 7, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • What the Census Dotmap tells us about Metro Vancouver [Stephen Rees’s Blog] INTERNATIONAL • School Design May Affect a Child’s Grades [Wired...
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January 6, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Johnston-Howe Block – Georgia and Granville [Changing Vancouver] INTERNATIONAL • Adaptation – Dept. Of Urban Planning, Abstract: How can...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered