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Want Families Downtown? Design for Them!
A few months back, Toronto’s deputy mayor started a political flap stating on the floor of city council that downtown was no place to raise kids...
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Book Review – From The Stacks: Suburban Transformations
Author: Paul Lukez (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) The suburbs make up the vast majority of North America’s built landscape. Their creation...
By Erick Villagomez -
September 11, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver’s first parkour gym opens on Main Street [OpenFile] • Bring us your chicken bones and your pizza leftovers. Vancouver...
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Urban Planet: Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects
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...
By Hilary Best -
Mind the Gap: Examining Urban Issues in the Developed and Developing Worlds
[Editor’s Note: Resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Christine McLaren, continues her coverage of the World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy...
By Christine McLaren -
Release: History & Heritage walk with Bruce Macdonald – Saturday, September 15th, at 2:00pm
Join the Grandview Heritage Group and one of our best-known local historians, Bruce Macdonald, for a walk and talk, “The Top of Commercial Drive...
By Erick Villagomez -
Religious Buildings, Reincarnated
Residents of the Little Mountain neighbourhood and swimmers on their way to a dip in the Hillcrest Pool might be surprised to see a “for sale” sign in...
By Vanessa Kay -
September 10, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Polak to keep province’s TransLink policies on track [Globe and Mail] • As totem pole rises, so does talk of reconciliation and ritual [Globe and...
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September 9, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Transit security to target Waterfront station [Vancouver Sun] • Is solving West Broadway’s transit woes really a lifetime away? [Globe and Mail...
By Spacing -
September 8, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Fall council preview: Viaducts, shared bikes, and closed streets [OpenFile] • VPD continues illegal shopping-cart demolitions in Downtown Eastside...
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Release: SFU Public Square summit aims to bring Metro Vancouverites closer
From Opening Night at the Orpheum Theatre featuring some of Canada’s brightest minds, to a Mayors Roundtable, a Youth and Student Conference, an Urban...
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Release: Built City, a new Museum of Vancouver/Architecture Canada series
The second series at the Museum of Vancouver with Architecture Canada – on the Built City: 3 Rs of City-building in Vancouver. Sessions start at 7 p.m...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered