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Release: “Speak your Mind” on the municipal elections with PlaceSpeak
As Metro Vancouver citizens prepare to head to the polls next month, Vancouver-based start-up PlaceSpeak has made it easier for residents to engage with...
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Release: Shipwreck Cemetery Walk – SS Princess Sophia Disaster
Please join us for a shipwreck themed walking tour with local historian John Atkin at Mountain View Cemetery. We will tell the story of the SS Princess...
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Video Vancouver: Putnam Block Party
Putnam Block Party from adele pham on Vimeo.
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Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Despite all the buzz, it is nice to see that we behaved ourselves relatively well...
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October 27, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • VIDEO: Mayoral debate [Vancouver Courier] • Vision Vancouver announces ‘creativity’ platform [Vancouver Sun] INTERNATIONAL • Solar...
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Release: Successful Food Scraps Collection Service Extends into the Winter
As the Food Scraps Drop Spot pilot project comes to an end, the Vancouver Farmers Market and Recycling Alternative is extending the service into the...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bridges, record playing bikes, Libyan development
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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No Freeways, but what about those Viaducts? re:CONNECT Ideas Competition launched!
By Brent Toderian One of the bedrocks of the Vancouver city-building story, which we often refer to as “the most important decision Vancouver ever...
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October 26, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Growth south of the Fraser – Part 2 [The Buzzer Blog] • Millions of tonnes of Japan tsunami debris drifting toward B.C. coast [Globe and Mail...
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Tom Kundig: Houses 2
Edited by Daniel S. Friedman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) “Tom Kundig’s architecture possesses the relaxed and unpretentious air of...
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October 25, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • City asks demonstrators to pack up tents and end Occupy Vancouver [OpenFile] • Vancouver’s NPA: Why it’s dominated city politics for so long and...
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Taxicabs and the future of getting around
On October 5th, Maclure’s celebrated 100 years of operation as a taxicab business in the Lower Mainland. Those 100 years have seen a great deal of...
By Karen Quinn Fung
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered