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A Call for Help from Chuck Davis
Chuck Davis recently spoke at a forum Sam Sullivan had launched on civic betterment at The Playhouse. Davis was the last of eight speakers to present and...
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High time Canada reviewed oil transport laws
As dirty crude from the Alberta oilsands is pipelined to Vancouver’s shores and oil tanker traffic is on the rise in the Burrard Inlet, what’s...
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Does Vancouver still need one way streets?
Like many cities in North America in the latter half of the 20th century, Vancouver converted a number of its streets to one way streets to allow...
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Pakistan Floods in British Columbia
We are constantly bombarded by all forms of media and information. Within this cacophonous blitz, we are – somewhat unfairly – asked to...
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Mountain and Ocean Tax: The Vancouver Standard from a Winnipeg Perspective
A look at Vancouver through the eyes of a fellow Winnipeg resident. By Lisa Ewasko, re:place Magazine
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The Canada Line – One year, 36 Million Boardings
Has it been only a year since the Canada Line opened? Indeed, it was just last August that this major infrastructure project was completed, connecting...
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Policy, Density and Population Distribution
To most users of the urban landscape, cities are cacophonous and chaotic entities that somehow manage to hold their daily lives together in a relatively...
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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...
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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...
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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...
By John Calimente
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered