October 26, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver filmmaker focuses lens on Little Mountain [Vancouver Courier] • Tenants win fight against BC Housing: Government cancels eviction...

Visual Thoughts #13

Last VT image: Roof of Landscape Architecture studio annex at the University of British Columbia. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at...

Rethinking the Region Forum @ SFU Surrey, November 3, 2012

The SFU Urban Studies program is presenting a public forum on November 3 that will explore how regionalism is being practiced in the lower mainland and...

Video Vancouver: Oppa Gangnam “West Coast” Style

Spacing Express: Duelling Commerce

A lot of media attention has been given recently to the B.C. government’s new $15 millon “HIPSTER is not A REAL JOB” ad campaign. But...

October 25, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Bike to Work Week starts next week, Oct 29-Nov 2, 2012 [The Buzzer Blog] • Burrard Hotel – Cordova and Homer [Changing Vancouver] INTERNATIONAL â€...

Vancouver Heritage Foundation Hycroft Evening Lecture with John Atkin

Vancouver Heritage Foundation – Hycroft Evening Lecture Series Catalog Shopping for Homes: Early Vancouver Houses with John Atkin. Many early homes...

October 24, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Richmond to open its street corners to food vendors [Richmond Review] • Walking With Ghosts in Haunted Vancouver [TravelLady Magazine] • Former...

Urban Planet: The Cardboard Bicycle

Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...

Warren Gill Memorial Lecture: Is Public Space a Public Good?—November 8, 2012

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...

Stan Douglas – Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

I wasn’t interested in the image conveying a single message. I was more interested in facilitating a conversation between people about a historical...

October 23, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver City Hall approves condo development that will demolish Ridge bowling alley and theatre [Vancouver Sun] • Province gives Vancouver...