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Private Sector, Public Good
[Editor’s Note: Resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Christine McLaren, continues her coverage of the World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy...
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Release: NITE OWL featuring photographs by Angus McIntyre, curated by John Atkin
NITE OWL is an exhibition featuring photographs by Angus McIntyre, curated by the Civic Historian and Author John Atkin. The exhibition runs...
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Urban Planet: US Stadium Building Spree
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 -
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
By Spacing -
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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered