Release: Call to Artists – Capstone Residential Development

Call to Artists – Capstone Residential Development Fairborne West 2nd Homes Ltd. and the City of North Vancouver) North Vancouver, BC Canada BUDGET...

Urban Planet: Saving Modernism’s Treasures

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...

Release: Poet Laureate Offers Free Consultation to Emerging Poets

Evelyn Lau, the City of Vancouver’s third Poet Laureate, invites emerging poets to apply for a free one-to-one manuscript consultation at...

Video Vancouver – Dream of the Suburbs: Vancouvria

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Now I’m not a transit accountant, but was there ever really a doubt that a Gondola...

January 19, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Urban farming program looking to expand in Vancouver’s school district [OpenFile] • Public Transit: What is the Question? [Stephen...

Urban Planet: How the Dutch Got Their Cycle Paths

Today, World Wide Wednesday becomes Urban Planet (please no jokes!), a daily roundup of  blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban...

January 18, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver city council wants giant digital signs outside BC Place dimmed down [Vancouver Sun] • Big and simple, flat and square: Vancouver and the...

Jak King – The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive

Speaker: Jak King – The Drive: A Retail, Social and Political History of Commercial Drive DATE: Thursday, January 26, 2012 TIME: 7:30pm LOCATION...

Book Review: Making Healthy Places

Editors: Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson (Island Press, 2011) Real estate agents are known for using many tricks to sell a...

January 17, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • City asks for public’s input on “budget pressures,” launches online consultation process [OpenFile] INTERNATIONAL • A City Is A...

Little Mountain | Why the Struggle for Social Housing is More Pressing Now than Ever

[EDITORS NOTE: A special thanks to Andrew Witt and the fine folk at The Mainlander where this piece was originally published.] The new plan for the...