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Urban Planet: People-Powered Street Lights
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 -
Dear urban Vancouver: defend our transit future!
It’s been almost a week since TransLink requested new revenue generating tools to pay for transit expansions. In that time, we’ve heard all the cons from...
By Paul Hillsdon -
Reflecting Vancouver’s Art Deco Past through Fashion
Imagine that it’s 1929 and you’re a women invited to attend the opening of the Commodore Ballroom on Granville Street, Vancouver’s premier...
By Jillian Glover -
Sim City: Neighbouring Cities & Updates
Spacington hasn’t grown very much this week: the population is still sitting around 50,000 people, there was is no new major business or residential...
By Dylan Collie -
Price Points: The Social Life of a Small Urban Place
It is one of the most extravagant public spaces in Vancouver – if measured by the care and cost of its design. And yet this plaza at Park Place...
By Gordon Price -
March 26, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • B.C. transit expansion plans in jeopardy [Globe and Mail] • Proposed changes to the Vancouver park-naming process opposed by NPA park board...
By Erick Villagomez -
March 24, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • A Sustainable Hedonist in Vancouver [Price Tags] • Clark rules out vehicle levy to pay for TransLink [Globe and Mail] • Vancouver restaurants: the...
By Erick Villagomez -
Spacing Saturday: Robson Street, Water Politics and Regent Park
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Allanah Heffez...
By Marcus Bowman -
Urban Planet: Urbanology
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 -
The Maraya Project and Veda Hille come together for an exploration of Vancouver’s False Creek
Vancouver’s False Creek has a fascinating history, and its most recent development is explored in an MOV Studio Exhibition now on display called the...
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Public Art Request for Proposals – City of Ottawa: Barrhaven South Recreation Complex
Public Art Request for Proposals – City of Ottawa: Barrhaven South Recreation Complex, City of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Budget: $300,000 plus...
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March 23, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Pricing Our Roads: What can Metro Vancouver learn from Seattle? [Price Tags] • Owner hopes new alley cafe attracts Vancouver cycling caffeine...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered