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Deep Green Film Screening and CIRS tour
Come join the Emerging Green Builders of Metro Vancouver in partnership with the UBC EGB group for an evening of sustainability as we tour the new UBC...
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City of Port Moody Call for Qualifications – Public Art: “The Necklace Project”
Call for Qualifications: Public Art: “The Necklace Project”, City of Port Moody Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada Budget: $40,000 Submission Deadline...
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Urban Planet: Open Spending Budgeting App
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 Human Face of Climate Change
Authors: Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer (Hatje Cantz, 2011) The Human Face of Climate Change is a quiet and stunning journey into the lives of...
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March 27, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • TransLink audit can only mean service cuts: city councillor [OpenFile] • Public transit and political theatre in Metro Vancouver [Fraseropolis...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered