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The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series
As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in partnership with the...
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Video Vancouver: Right to Walk
Walkability is a crucial first step in creating sustainable transportation in an urban environment.
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Video Vancouver: Urban Planning Trends to Watch in 2019
Climate change, housing prices, alternative transportation, and mega-projects. Will it be two steps forward or two steps back? For more...
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Book Review – Close Up At A Distance: Mapping Technology and Politics
Author: Laura Kurgan (Zone Books, 2012) Close Up At A Distance: Mapping Technology and Politics is an excellent introduction to the world of remote...
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Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’
Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family residences to pay a...
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Redesigning Cities to Support Seniors Stuck in Suburban Sprawl
Rasiklal Joshi never took the bus. He always drove — until he reached his 80s and his doctor told him to stop. “I tried to persuade my doctor, but he said...
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Video Vancouver: Delft – spoor en centrum
Via small places: It’s been said that the Netherlands is both a dense country and a sprawling city, but neither is quite right. Large cities quickly...
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Video Vancouver: What is Zoning?
Produced by the City of Vancouver Regulation Redesign Project Team
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How a Smart, Progressive Property Tax Could Ease Our Housing Crisis
Guest author: Patrick Condon Does Vancouver need a new kind of tax on land? City council thinks it might, so has asked city staff to study a version put...
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SURVEY: What were Vancouver’s Planning & Development Milestones of 2018?
As 2018 draws to a close, the Vancouver City Planning Commission (VCPC) Chronology Program is embarking on our annual retrospective of planning and...
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Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more than any inhabitant can...
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Video Vancouver: Our Housing Market and Why It’s So Expensive
To get a better understanding of Vancouver’s expensive housing market, The MIX collaborated with About Here to see what the city can do to help bring down...
By Yuri Artibise
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered