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Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland: A comparison of real estate and economic strength
Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver are three cities linked geographically, climatically, and culturally. It often seems that we have more in common with...
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Homeless Voyeurism
Perhaps the fascination is the difference from our normal day-to-day lives. We’re repulsed, but we feel sorry for them. We don’t want them around, but...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1979
View of Burrard Street from Pender Street in May, 1979. Item # CVA 780-45. In 1979, a former premier and a local hockey star passed away. It was also the...
By Chuck Davis -
A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1978
The 100-block of East Pender Street in April 1978. Item # CVA 780-470. This year laid the groundwork for the biggest event in Vancouver at the time. A...
By Chuck Davis -
Freeways, funding, and a flawed 1962 rail plan for Vancouver
This week we look at another transit plan for Vancouver in the context of the freeway debates of the 1960s. Created by the British Columbia Research...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1977
A view of downtown Vancouver from Cambie Bridge in June 1977. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives. Item # CVA 780-1. It was 1977 that the SeaBus started...
By Chuck Davis -
Making Space for a Kiosk/Cart Culture from Portland to Accra
Kiosks are an opportunity to increase richness in our urban fabric, promote experimentation and deliver goods/services in walkable locations while...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1976
The 1000 block of Robson Street in February, 1976. Item # CVA 780-406. In 1976, ICBC rates skyrocketed, the Museum of Anthropology got a new home and an...
By Chuck Davis -
Notes from Barcelona
Having recently returned from Barcelona, Sean Ruthen of re:place magazine presents a monograph of architecture from that city, and ponders how we in the...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1975
A painter at VanDusen Gardens in July, 1975. Item # CVA 1502-425. It was in 1975 that it became easier to get to the airport, VanDusen opened and there...
By Chuck Davis -
Vancouver Police Museum a bloody good time
An arresting affair indeed. Housed in Vancouver’s original city morgue, the city’s Police Museum is as much about modern forensics as it is...
By Liam Lahey -
A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1974
The Credit Foncier Building, photographed in 1974, was designated this year as a Heritage Building. Item # CVA 778-212. In 1974, the Whitecaps hit the...
By Chuck Davis
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered