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January 25, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • 400,000 pieces of evidence moved to sleek new crime warehouse [Globe and Mail] • Polling website helps reap Harvest in Vancouver [Vancouver...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: Part-Time Public Art Position, City of Surrey, British Columbia
PUBLIC ART COORDINATOR Join our Public Art staff team and contribute to the specialized cultural development work related to the administration...
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Urban Planet: Pedestrian behaviour
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 -
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Author: Jarrett Walker (Island Press, 2012) Only if we embrace the facts of transit, and discover the opportunities they present, will our cities, and our...
By Yuri Artibise -
January 24, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • New, spectacular B.C. community centres shedding stereotypes [Globe and Mail] • TransLink pledges to increase bus service and promote cycling in...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: Help Shape and Arts and Culture Advisory Committee for Vancouver
In 2011, Vancouver City Council recommended establishing a committee which will advise on all civic programs that relate to arts and culture. Your opinion...
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Urban Planet: Flash! Comics Explain Transportation Demand Management
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...
By Hilary Best -
Lightmodal: public art that isn’t so public
Here’s art with no vision, goals, and of a doubtful legacy. I stole those headings from the Necklace Project website (www.necklaceproject.ca/)...
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Price Points: A Vision from the Sixties
It’s the Sixties, it’s a municipal town centre – but where? . . It’s a 1968 concept plan by the Vancouver firm of Ehling &...
By Gordon Price -
January 23, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Gentrification of Mount Pleasant: Developers, Displacement and Real-Estate’s New Frontier [The Mainlander] INTERNATIONAL • The New Big Three: New...
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January 22, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Year of the Dragon and map of the ‘best Chinese food outside of China’ in Vancouver [OpenFile] • Witness says Burns Lake sawmill...
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January 21, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Difficult road ahead for Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation [North Shore Outlook] • Kingsway development no longer includes plans...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered