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Video Vancouver: Putnam Block Party
Putnam Block Party from adele pham on Vimeo.
By Caroline Toth -
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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Erick Villagomez -
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...
By Hilary Best -
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...
By Sean Ruthen -
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...
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COPE Focuses in on Bus Riders, Cyclists, Pedestrians
Over the past week, the Coalition of Progressive Electors have rolled out plank after plank for their transportation platform, setting the bar higher than...
By Brian Gould -
Price Points: An Interesting Street
Michael Alexander, a Vancouver urbanist, thinks this is actually the most interesting block on one of the most interesting streets in the city at the...
By Gordon Price
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered