CityStudio Blasting Off

Friday night was the CityStudio Holiday Blast. Held at the Wise Hall off the Drive, the event was a celebration of the first year of the Studio’s...

Urban Planet: Mesmerizing visualizations of mass-transit

While you are riding the overcrowded bus to work, it might be impossible to imagine how many other people, on innumerable forms of transit, are scattered...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Metro Vancouver is voting today on whether or not to create hydroelectric power at its...

December 7, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vision’s Trojan Train on Broadway [The Mainlander] • Broadway rapid-transit plan comes with density issues [Globe and Mail] • 16th Avenue to be...

Call for Qualifications

Call for Qualifications – Fort McMurray Airport Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada (1) TWO DIMENSIONAL ARTWORK FOR FLOOR MEDALLION (2) HOLD ROOM...

Struggling Cities from Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s

Video Vancouver: One day of activity for New York transit

Sensational Victoria

Ever stood in front of an old house and wondered what went on inside those walls? Who lived there, how they lived their lives and what events happened...

December 6, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Pedestrian deaths dominate Vancouver traffic fatalities [CBC News] • City calls on Port Metro Vancouver to delay coal export expansion [Vancouver...

VHF’s Places That Matter plaque presentation: The Railway Club, Dec 8th 8:30pm

Join Vancouver Heritage Foundation for Places That Matter plaque presentation #46 : DATE: Saturday Dec 8: PLACE: The Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir St.at...

Urban Planet: Mother of all traffic jams

Over two feet of snow dumped on Russian, which might have been fine, had some localities not closed exits along the major highway. Prices along the way...

December Urbanist Meetup, Sunday, December 9th, 3pm-5pm

It’s time again to get together with your fellow urbanist for December’s Vancouver Urbanist Meetup this Sunday December 9, 2012. This month...