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World Wide Wednesday: Safe Cities, LA Bike Lanes, Park(ing) Day
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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Release: Heritage Vancouver -A Conversation with Brent Toderian about Heritage in Vancouver
Heritage Vancouver once again welcomes Brent Toderian, Director of Planning for the City of Vancouver for our annual heritage review. This will include...
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September 14, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver’s oldest schoolhouse facing wrecker’s ball gets new lease on life [Globe and Mail] • Leak under Vancouver Shell gas station contaminates...
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“My Park Is _____” Fill in the Blank at Park(ing) Day 2011
What does your park mean to you? If you could describe your local park in one word, what would it be? Quiet? Lush? Dirty? How would you describe Vancouver...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: Call for Submissions – Proposed Video Art Screen
Call for Submissions -Proposed Video Art Screen Ontario, Canada Deadline for Submissions: 11:59PM ET on September 30, 2011 Toronto-based Public Art...
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The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1944
Author: Donald Albrecht (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005) In 1925, at the age of 50, traveling salesman Samuel H. Gottscho quit his job and began a...
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September 13, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Colony Farm agricultural academy plan goes to committee despite objections [Vancouver Sun] • Walk This Way: Comox-Helmcken Greenway [Price Tags...
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Urban Cartography – A public course at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
This fall, Spacing contributor Laura Kozak will be teaching Urban Cartography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design . Learn to critically read and...
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A Brighter Future with Cities: Review of Scientific American special edition
Following the UN declaration in 2008 that the majority of people now live in cities, there has been an explosion of city-themed commentary in magazines...
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Price Points: Gathering Space
What’s happening here? A concert, yes? In this case, MexicoFest. And the singers were pulling out all the old chestnuts – Mexican songs...
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September 12, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Transit advocates launch campaign for property-tax hike [Globe and Mail] CANADA • Using Twitter to Encourage Engagement in Urban History [This Big...
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Release: Heritage Vancouver presents – A Planning Tour of Vancouver’s West End
Join Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at SFU, for a planning tour of Vancouver’s West End. The West End reveals about eight different...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered