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EVENT: SFU City Conversations: Golf Courses or Housing & Parks? – Feb 20th
Golf Courses or Housing & Parks WHEN: Thursday, February 20, 2020 – 12:30 – 1:30PM WHERE: SFU Vancouver at Harbour Centre, 515 West...
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EVENT: 2019 Year-in-Review Panel, February 6, 2020
A panel discussion on the planning milestones that transformed Vancouver in 2019 Expropriation of derelict hotels. Plans for 6,000 new units in 11...
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Vancouver’s Rents and Incomes: A Critical Analysis
Our housing crisis is fundamentally a rental crisis. As such, it’s important to keep the numbers straight so that we can better focus our energy and...
By Jens -
Video Vancouver: Urban Planning in the 2010s
A first draft of the urban planning history of the 2010s. Via Planetizen.
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Understanding Affordability: A Partial Picture
Click here to enlarge the graph. Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. Nydia Velazquez Nydia Velazquez’s...
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Release: Save Ron Thom’s 1962 Forrest House in West Vancouver Petition
Please sign this petition to save the famous Canadian architect Ron Thom’s 1962 Forrest House in West Vancouver which is slated for Demolition on...
By Spacing -
Housing Central 2019: Creating A Culture of Belonging and Inclusion
This year’s Housing Central Conference may have been the most comprehensive, versatile and multifaceted to date. From Sunday, Nov 17. to Tuesday...
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EVENT: 2019 Year-in-Review Workshop
Workshopping the planning milestones that transformed Vancouver in 2019 Year in Review 2019 is the 5th annual workshop convened by the Vancouver City...
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Book Review—Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places
Authors: Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, Stefan Al (Island Press, 2017) The cumulative consequences of this nearly singular focus on expeditious movement...
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Book Review—Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Author: Steven Higashide (Island Press, 2019) Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run and Win the Fight for Effective Transit is the ultimate...
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Event: Housing Central Conference 2019, Nov. 17th-19th
The BC Non-Profit Housing Association in partnership with Co-operative Housing Federation of BC and Aboriginal Housing Management Association will be...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink
Accessibility is a key priority of any public transit system. While much-needed efforts are underway in making bus stops and SkyTrain stations more...
By Max Kittner
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered