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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Civilization in the year 3991 AD
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. A decade-long computer simulation has...
By Mike Bulko -
HUB Q&A with Steph Gray
Last month, we celebrated cycling to school during Bike to School Week from May 14 to May 18. The event, coordinated by HUB: Your Cycling Connection, was...
By Kathleen Corey -
June 13, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • The Interrupted Seawall: Why wait ’til September? [Price Tags] • Transit-oriented buildings fetch higher rents [Globe and Mail] • Soapbox...
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Call for proposals from Artists for Fieldhouse Studio Residencies in Parks
Call for proposals from Artists for Fieldhouse Studio Residencies in Parks Deadline for Proposals: July 9, 2012 The Fieldhouse Studio Residency Program...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: Popularise – Collaborative Planning Online
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 -
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form
Author: Emily Talen (Island Press, 2011) American cities are now saddled with rules that work against the formation of compact, diverse, walkable, urban...
By Yuri Artibise -
June 12, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver healing lodge opens after 10 years of work [Vancouver Sun] • The Joy of Giving Back [The Tyee] • Vancouver’s budding romance with...
By Spacing -
City of Vancouver: Cultural Space Lease Opportunity, 140 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC
City of Vancouver Cultural Space Lease Opportunity – 140 West 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC The City of Vancouver is seeking proposals from qualified...
By Spacing -
Urban Planet: Preserving the View of Citadel Hill
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 -
Hastings Park – Empire Field Returns!…..With New Parks and Greenways – Open House
Please join City of Vancouver staff at the final in a series of open houses and provide comments on concept plans for Empire Fields, Plateau Sports Park...
By Erick Villagomez -
On Bias, Critique, and Civic Duty: An Interview with an “Unabashedly Subjective” Gentrification Researcher
[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is traveling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...
By Christine McLaren -
June 11, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Soccer game icing on cake of popular cultural event at Vancouver’s Commercial Drive [Vancouver Sun] • Great Bear Forest to Be Massive Carbon...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered