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World Wide Wednesday: Bankruptcy, transit pass, commute times
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 -
October 19, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Housing homeless becomes political football [Globe and Mail] • Understanding traffic laws for cyclists [OpenFile] • Ethnic enclave series...
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Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village
Author: Robert Mellin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland...
By Elle Ziegler -
Walk21 Helps Keep You Fit and Busy
A plethora of perambulating peripatetics and other pedestrians descended on Vancouver at the beginning of October to madly rush through 200 presentations...
By Brian Gould -
October 18, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Anton’s history of flip-flopping haunts her Vancouver mayoral bid [Globe and Mail] • Occupy Vancouver can continue if it remains peaceful: Gregor...
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NPA’s Anton: Streetcar Yes, Bike Lanes No
The nomination deadline for Vancouver’s civic election passed on Friday, with 94 people stepping up for 27 spots across the mayoralty, council, and...
By Brian Gould -
Release: City announces Vancouver’s third poet laureate
The City of Vancouver, in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver International Writers Festival, is proud to announce celebrated...
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Price Points: Baby Demons
A shining black baby with webbed wings – both cute and ominous. But where is it? Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the...
By Gordon Price -
October 17, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • New units for homeless going to house others, report says [Globe and Mail] • City’s affordable housing strategy: gentrification [The Mainlander...
By Erick Villagomez -
October 16, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Anton does not like to be compared to Rob Ford [OpenFile] • Mayoral candidates announced [Vancouver Sun] • Occupiers vow to stay on Vancouver Art...
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Spacing Saturday: CanU, Safe Cycling and the Legg Residence
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. Allegra Newman...
By Marcus Bowman -
October 15, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Panel rejects Beach Towers rezoning in Vancouver’s West End [Vancouver Courier] • Social housing for homeless catering mainly to non-homeless...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered