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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...
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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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Hilary Best -
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...
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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...
By Jackie Wong -
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...
By Gordon Price -
In the Wilds: Drawings by Nigel Peake
Into the Wilds is an incredible collection of hand-drawings by Irish artist, Nigel Peake. Created over the course of three months, Peake uses illustrative...
By Elle Ziegler -
Re:post – No Room to Rent in the Livable City
[Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of cross-posts with The Tyee looking at “renovictions” in Vancouver. Survey after poll...
By Jackie Wong -
August 9, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Vancouver city planners court resident input for neighbourhood plans [Vancouver Courier] • Vancouver housing plan sets stage for debate on...
By Erick Villagomez -
Meet Your Fellow Vancouver Urbanists This Sunday
As great as learning about our great city online can be, nothing beats getting together and sharing our experiences in person. Vanouver readers are...
By Yuri Artibise -
Thinking outside the (newspaper) box
Though the summer weather has stayed away, Vancouver is experiencing a growth in street activity. The increased number of specialist food vendors is...
By Chris Quigley -
August 8, 2011 Headlines
LOCAL • Anthropologist believes he has found B.C. village that may be 10,000 years old [Globe and Mail] • Canada Line on right track for success in...
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered