August 20, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Heritage advocate eyes boarded-up bakery sign [Vancouver Courier] • Politics, not petition, will determine Robson Square’s future [Globe and Mail...

August 19, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Metro Vancouver facing future threat from rising sea levels [Vancouver Sun] • Local park eases the hike for disabled [Vancouver Sun] • Unchain...

Video Vancouver: Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio

Could bridge tolls solve our transit woes?

Dianne Watts said it best when she asked whether we want to become like Los Angeles. With an estimated million more people moving into the region in the...

Release: Re:Building Vancouver Explores the Connection 
Between Social Unrest and Architecture

A new exhibit at the Architectural Institute of British Columbia Gallery offers a unique perspective on social unrest: the connection between human...

August 18, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Report targets renter grievances in Vancouver neighbourhood [Vancouver Courier] • Whalley neighbourhood has fewest university degrees per capita...

Release: Adorno and Nose

Adorno and Nose by Doupé and Whitman launched into transit shelters August 15 A new project by the City of Vancouver Public Art program invites the public...

World Wide Wednesday: Cycling monuments, Endangered places, Pop-Up Playgrounds

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 17, 2011 Headlines

LOCAL • Suburban planners struggle to boost cycling [Globe and Mail] • New Surrey library to lend people out as ‘living books’ [Vancouver Sun...

#urbnpalooza 2011

We are an emerging group of local urbanists that are in search of spirited debate and lively discussion on the future of development and decision-making...

Release – A Sign for the City

A Sign for the City, a year-long public art project by Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, continues in transit shelters August 15. The regular nightly boom of...

Book Review – From The Stacks: Crabgrass Frontier- The Suburbanization of the United States

[Editor’s Note: In the rush to get the latest books, we often forget some of the classics. This is why we’ve created “From the...