Video Vancouver: Childhood Days

October 6, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Messy street patterns boost city’s walkability [Vancouver Sun] • TransLink plan falls short, commissioner cautions [Globe and Mail] �...

World Wide Wednesday: Participatory budgeting and underground parks

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...

October 5, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver mayor won’t lobby for more drug injection sites [Vancouver Courier] • Vancouver artists getting the boot in city’s aggressive...

Book Review: Block by Block

Not another Jane Jacobs review.  Unfortunately yes.  If you are reading this blog, chances are high that you have a dog-eaten copy of Death & Life...

October 4, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Read the Insite ruling for yourself [Vancouver Courier] • Union urges Vancouver mayors to accept gas taxes to pay for more transit [Vancouver Sun...

Release: Incubating Talent – City to Award Four Artist Live/Work Studios

Initiated in 1996, the City of Vancouver Artist Live/Work Studio Program now numbers four purpose built artist live/work studios awarded to local artists...

Hastings Street: The Pulse of a Community

Downtown Eastside has come to be known as “Canada’s Poorest Postal Code”.  The area radiating from the intersection at Main and Hastings has gained...

Price Points: Facelift

Where is it, and what is it? This is Yaletown Park (see map), and the sculture is Eros Bendato Scrippolato (Eros blindfolded and cracked) by Igor...

October 3, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Glittering Vancouver is now the poverty capital of Canada [Crosscut] • Anton vows review of new bike lanes if elected [Vancouver Sun...

October 2, 2011 Headlines

INTERNATIONAL • Suburbanization of Poverty: What’s New? [Pedestrian Observations] • Radical Post Modernism [Strange Harvest]

October 1, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Crowd gathered at Insite cheers legal victory [Vancouver Courier] • Site next to BC Place a ‘limbo zone’ [Globe and Mail] • Election website...