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Urban Planet: Growing Vegetables in Vancouver’s Parking Garages
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...
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Book Review – From The Stacks: Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns
By Ann Forsyth and Laura R. Musacchio (Wiley, 2005) Small parks play a pivotal role in North American cities by being the main open space for most...
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May 8, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • New legislation introduced to better enforce fare evasion fines, plus a few more items [The Buzzer Blog] INTERNATIONAL • Kids Who Get Driven...
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Exploring Neighbourhood Energy Futures Workshop
DATE: Saturday May 12 or Saturday May 26 TIME: 9:30am to 2:30pm LOCATION: BC Hydro Theatre – Room 1151, Centre for Interactive Research on...
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Urban Planet: Errors in New York’s Subway Map
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...
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V6A: Decoding The Downtown Eastside with Poetry and Prose
When journalists toss around mentions of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, they rarely go without immediately noting that it is “Canada’s poorest postal...
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Price Points: Tale of a Tile
What’s the story behind those blue tiles? And where is this building? Vancouverites of a certain age (i.e. mine) might recognize both the...
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May 7, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Sky-high housing prices in Vancouver’s west side short-lived [Globe and Mail] • Looking at Trees [What Floats to the Top of My Desk...
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May 6, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • 2012 Top Ten Endangered Sites [Heritage Vancouver] • The subtle charms of downtown Maple Ridge [Fraseropolis] INTERNATIONAL • Pixelizing Dutch...
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May 5, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Oil threatens culture and wildlife in Gitga’at Nation’s remote and beautiful territory [Vancouver Observer] • Saturday Supermoon over...
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Release: CityStudio Students Attend to Vancouver Orphaned Spaces
The City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) announced today that students from CityStudio have undertaken work on an innovative...
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Find the Plaques to Make History
Guest Feature by Michael Klassen There’s evidence that our community connections are made more tenuous by modern urban living. There was a time when...
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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered