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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...
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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 -
Release: Bike to Work Week starts Halloween! – Oct 31-Nov 6
It’s that time of year again…..Bike to Work Week! The Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition organized the first Bike to Work Week program in 2007...
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October 24, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver Aims to ‘End’ Homelessness [The Atlantic] • Artifice of Law: Information on the Structures By-Law [The Mainlander] • Doubts...
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Release: VPSN Annual Halloween Skytrain Party!
It’s that time of the year! The VPSN’s annual Halloween Skytrain Party is back! This is your chance to take part in one of the craziest, most unique...
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Release: Open House MONDAY Demolition threat – Legg Residence (1899)
Heritage Vancouver invites you to attend an Open House Monday evening hosted by the applicant Bing Thom Architects to give your input into the proposed...
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October 23, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Are we reaching ‘peak car’? [Stephen Rees’s Blog] CANADA • Transit strikes brewing at GO and York Region [The Toronto Star] • Subway or LRT...
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Spacing Saturday: Walk 21, Local Food Systems and YIMBYism
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. John Lorinc used...
By Marcus Bowman
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered