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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...
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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...
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January 17, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • City asks for public’s input on “budget pressures,” launches online consultation process [OpenFile] INTERNATIONAL • A City Is A...
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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...
By Andrew Witt -
January 16, 2012 Headlines
LOCAL • Paint store sale heralds major East Hastings redevelopment [Globe and Mail] • Composter the last piece of Vancouver firm’s recycling puzzle...
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Price Points – Visions of Metrotown
Yes, this is a vision of Burnaby’s Metrotown – from 1971. Here’s the map of this region’s first purpose-built town centre. And...
By Gordon Price -
January 15, 2012 Headlines
INTERNATIONAL • See and Hear LACMA’s Zippy New Mini-City “Metropolis II” [Curbed LA]
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January 14, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Bid to expose Vancouver’s worst landlords reveals need for a public advocate [Globe and Mail] • Tsawwassen band paves way for controversial...
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Spacing Saturday: Urban Screen, City Place and the Family Motel
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Toronto’s...
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January 13, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Proposed Tsawwassen First Nation malls to make area a ‘shopping destination’ [Vancouver Sun] • Douglas Coupland goes pop with QR Codes...
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Event: re:generation – how we move our city
Ever wonder about Vancouver rail transit in the 1950s? Or the future of automobile ownership? Or wondered what “Active Transportation” was? …. Elders...
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Let’s start with big TransLink news as their plan to raise transit fares an...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered