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...

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...

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...

Release: Ecce Homo by Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger launches September 12

Ecce Homo by Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger will be installed on the west wall of the Canada Line at Vancouver City Centre Station on September 12...

September 11, 2011 Headlines

CANADA • Light Shower Towers: Toronto’s new park attempts to bring water back into the public realm [Water Canada] INTERNATIONAL • Vycon Plans to...

September 10, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver Gets Parklets [THE DIRT] • Appliance ‘art’ irks Vancouver resident [Vancouver Courier] • Metro Vancouver board appears poised to ban...

September 9, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • New ways to find your way: An interview about TransLink’s new transportation wayfinding strategy [The Buzzer Blog] • Home, Home on the Lane...

Video Vancouver: Transportation Planning and Climate Change

RELEASE: New Urban Food Scraps Collection Project Gets Off to a Soaring Start

In just four weeks, the Food Scraps Drop Spot has diverted almost 3,000 pounds of food scraps from the landfill. Since August 13th, residents of...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.

September 8, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Residents rally against Greenway project [Vancouver Courier] • Vancouver would be wise to emulate Portland [Globe and Mail] • Vancouver the...

September Urbanist Meetup – Sunday, September 11, 3pm-5pm

It’s time once again for the monthly Vancouver Urbanists Meetup! Come out and join your fellow urbanists on Sunday (September 11th) from 3-5pm, for...