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Urban Planet: Habitat 67 in LEGO?
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: The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
Author: Charles Landry (Earthscan, 2008) Creativity, as a subject, has been of growing interest over the past few decade. What is it? What factors...
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March 13, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Indian band thwarts Vancouver ground-breaking [Vancouver Courier] • Ridge Theatre faces final curtain [Globe and Mail] • All options being...
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Urban Planet: The Urban Genome Project
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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Commercial Drive’s Historian: An Interview with Jak King
Jak King knows a lot about the history of Commercial Drive. In his recently released The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive...
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March 12, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Affordable-housing task force proposes ‘quick start’ solutions [Globe and Mail] • 130 years after John Muir’s visit, author seeks to save B.C.’s...
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Price Points: An absence of something iconic
It’s a Thursday evening and we’ll all on the 236, heading to one of the great places in the Lower Mainland: Grouse Mountain. . No surprise...
By Gordon Price -
March 11, 2012 Headlines
INTERNATIONAL Explaining Transit’s Secret Language [The Atlantic Cities] ***
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March 10, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL Vancouver concrete plant home to bald eagle platform [Vancouver Courier] Plans underway for Surrey Public Market property [Vancouver Sun] Monster...
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Spacing Saturday: Downtown Halifax, Evolving Big Box and Demographic Bombs
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Ottawa’s...
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Urban Planet: Insull’s Chicago Transit Posters
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 -
SFU Free Public Lecture – Shaping Communities as if Sustainability Mattered
Join us for a discussion with two of Vancouver’s most influential planning academics, Dr. Mark Roseland and Dr. Ron Kellett. Learn more from Mark...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered