Re:post -Landlords and Tenants Agree: Market Can’t Fix Itself

[Editor’s note: More than a third of Metro Vancouver’s households are renters. And urban planners say the region needs some 6,000 new rental...

August 12, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Quake could cause Vancouver city hall data quagmire [Vancouver Courier] • Crazy STIR Program Will Not Die [The Mainlander] • Vision Vancouver too...

Re:post – Inside BC’s Secretive Landlord-Tenant Dispute Process

[Editor’s note: Half of Metro Vancouver’s households are renters. Private property owners provide most of the apartments they live in. If...

Vancouver: Fireworks Draw a Crowd

Release: PICNURBIA

PICNURBIA In the summer, the downtown area of Vancouver is crowded with people from a wide variety of backgrounds who move at different paces through the...

My Grandview: A Walking Tour with Michael Kluckner

Join Heritage Vancouver first President Michael Kluckner for a unique look at Vancouver Grandview neighbourhood. You will roam through the blocks between...

August 11, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Locals check out Vancouver’s artificial beach [Globe and Mail] • Tools of a Different Trade [The Dependent] • Case against bike lanes has...

Re:post – Landlords See a High Price to Cheap Rent

[Editor’s Note: As many as half the households in the city of Vancouver, and thousands more across Metro, rent rather than own their...

World Wide Wednesday: Luminaires, Luminato, Graffiti Surge

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...

August 10, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver gets a new faux summertime beach [Vancouver Sun] • Connections: What They Don’t Say [Price Tags] • PRT at Heathrow [Stephen Rees’s...

Re:post – Thrown Out: Fight Grinds on Against ‘Renovictions’

[Editor’s Note: Vancouver revels in its reputation as North America’s most ‘livable’ city. Yet for as many as half of Vancouver’s...

Price Points: Skaters on the Seawall

WHAT’S THIS ABOUT? Just a few of the hundred or more skateboarders who were rolling towards Brockton Point on the Stanley Park Seawall (map here) to...