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weRecycle – New app helps you recycle in Metro Vancouver
Ever wonder where to find the best places to donate or recycle materials you no longer need? Metro Vancouver has launched a free iPhone app called...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Grand Central’s dirty secret
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. High above commuter’s heads...
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Mountain View Cemetery Walking Tours
First tours on March 25 at 10 am: Lorraine Irving (BC Genealogical Society): This tour will look at the still unsolved murder of Janet Smith and the...
By Erick Villagomez -
March 14, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver city hall ‘definitions’ impossible to define [Vancouver Courier] • Keep the “laughing statues”, urges petition...
By Erick Villagomez -
Hubbub about a Food Hub
[Editor’s Note: A warm thanks to Jeff Nield, citylab and the fine folks at Edible Vancouver Magazine who gave us permission to cross-post this...
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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...
By Hilary Best -
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
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered