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December 26, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Got a new idea for old school board building? [Surrey Leader] INTERNATIONAL • Bike-Sharing for the Unbanked [The Atlantic]
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December 25, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • COUNTERPOINT | Daniel Fontaine’s “Hunt for affordable housing” [The Mainlander] INTERNATIONAL • China grapples with mass migration from villages...
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December 24, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Province green lights Vancouver Island wind farm [Globe and Mail] • Surrey’s new library gets architectural recognition [Vancouver Sun...
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December 23, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • The University in the Shopping Mall [Slate] • Best of 2011: Glittering Vancouver is now the poverty capital of Canada [Crosscut] • New Surrey...
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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...
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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...
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December 20, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver Police Board dismisses citizen complaint against Critical Mass [Vancouver Courier] • $1 million dock opens in southeast False Creek...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered