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August 27, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Moving Forward public meetings [The Buzzer Blog] • City, BC Housing on Little Mountain’s hard lessons [OpenFile] • Vancouver laneway housing...
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August 26, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Knee deep in it: Vancouver’s sewer jobs [OpenFile] • More than a third of Chinatown residents can’t speak English [Vancouver Sun] • Subversive...
By Erick Villagomez -
Picnurbia/VIVA Vancouver
The HD version is highly recommended and available at its Vimeo page. *** Granville Street, despite heavy foot traffic provided by transit service, is a...
By Brian Gould -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Cities are always grappling with containing costs particularly when it concerns...
By Liam Lahey -
August 25, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • September service changes and optimization [The Buzzer Blog] • Non-profit grocery offers purchasing power in Vancouver [Vancouver Courier] • In...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Bike lights, car decline, rail lines
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 -
August 24, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • “Vancouver – Is homeownership becoming a far-fetched dream?” [The Mainlander] CANADA • For Canada to arrive, it needs to be obliterated on film...
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Transport for Suburbia
Author: Paul Mees (Earthscan, 2010) There are certain books that I know I’m going to enjoy as soon as I see the title. Paul Mees’ book...
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August 23, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • On the road to another record [The Buzzer Blog] • Vancouver looks for financial and ecological bounce with rubber sidewalk [Vancouver Courier] ...
By Erick Villagomez -
Release: City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Call for Expressions of Interest
The City of Vancouver would like to hear from poets interested in becoming the City’s third Poet Laureate. The call for nominations and submissions...
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Norquay Park: Community by Design (or design by community?)
What makes a public park successful? Perhaps we can glimpse and answer this difficult question through looking closely at Norquay Park – one of the...
By Cameron Barker -
Funding SkyTrain’s Next 25 Years
TransLink formally celebrated SkyTrain’s 25th Anniversary this past week at the Edmonds Yard in Burnaby. As I listened to the speeches, I...
By Brian Gould
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered