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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The latest estimates suggest TransLink will end 2011 earning almost $26 million less...
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Release: Help shape an Arts and Culture Advisory Committee for Vancouver
Vancouver City Council has recommended the establishment of a committee which will advise on all civic programs that relate to arts and culture. This new...
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December 22, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Resident pans Little Mountain redevelopment plan in Vancouver [Vancouver Courier] INTERNATIONAL • Times are changing in the early...
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Release: Jarrett Walker Free Lecture
Jarrett Walker — just possibly the best blogger on transit and transportation anywhere — is now launching his book of the same name: Human Transit. He’ll...
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World Wide Wednesday: Busways, SMS tickets and haikus
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
December 21, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Metro Vancouver to crackdown on diesel [Vancouver Sun] • Lesson 1 for new councillor: No mixing business with council work [State of Vancouver...
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Participate: Design with User-Generated Content
Participatory design requires user content for completion. Rather than deliver clean, finished products to a passive audience, participatory designers...
By Laura Kozak -
December 20, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver Police Board dismisses citizen complaint against Critical Mass [Vancouver Courier] • $1 million dock opens in southeast False Creek...
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Spacing now offering national issue subscription
That’s right, Spacing is now offering a subscription to readers who only want to get our national edition! It’ll cost you $15 for 2 issues, or...
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Price Points: A Place that Matters
Where is this – and why does it matter? Enough to be worthy of a plaque that says so. . . Okay, easy guess on the location: it’s the Vancouver...
By Gordon Price -
Voices of Grandview-Woodlands
How well can you really know any neighbourhood? Yes, one can recite the history, the dates and times of developments, the influx of immigrants and the...
By Tessa Holloway -
December 19, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver’s HMV goes out with both a bang and a whimper [Globe and Mail] • DJ Mayor Gregor Robertson’s setlist and video of his performance...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered