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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...
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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...
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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...
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Price Points: L.A. Transformation
You may have missed this: With the passage of Measure R (November, 2008), Los Angeles bought itself a massive expansion of its rapid transit network. The...
By Gordon Price -
June 10, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver’s budding romance with row houses[Globe and Mail] • Happening Now! A free walking Italian Day on Commercial [TheDrive] and the...
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Restaurants that Changed Vancouver: Hon’s
[Spacing Vancouver is proud to present a new ongoing series about how food helps define the city. Dr. Lenore Newman and Katherine Burnett look into the...
By Katherine Burnett -
June 9, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Mario Gutierrez and Manuel X: A Tale of Two Immigrants [The Mainlander] • B.C. plastic bag ban put on hold [Vancouver Sun] • Vancouver’s...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered