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Video Vancouver: Commuting is bad for your health
Via Vox: My commute is like a second job, and it might be killing me. Millions of Americans commute to work. It can be a stressful journey that involves...
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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...
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Video Vancouver: What is Planning?
Do you ever wonder how a community just happens?…well, perhaps you’d like to know. LPPANS worked closely with PLANifax to create a video responding to the...
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: COV Northeast False Creek final plan will be going to Council, Jan. 31
The City of Vancouver has released the final plan for Northeast False Creek, which will guide the creation of a vibrant new waterfront destination. The...
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Vancouver’s urban agriculture movement
SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VANCOUVER: GLOBALIZATION & NEOLIBERALISM While globalization has come to be a highly-circulated term...
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Video Vancouver: Northeast False Creek Animation
Via Joseph Hruda: Concord Pacific Waterfront Entertainment District Master Plan & Animation by: CIVITAS Urban Design & Planning, Vancouver, Canada...
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Video Vancouver: Veronica Moss, A.U.T.O. Lobbyist
An oldie but goodie from StreetFilms: Ever wonder what folks working for sustainable transportation at the federal level are up against on K Street? For...
By Yuri Artibise -
Cartographically Speaking – CoV Elementary School Capacity vs Child Population by Neighbourhood
Click here to see an enlarged version. In September 2016, I unexpectedly received an email from a concerned Vancouverite. She had read some of the pieces...
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EVENT: Milestones 2017 — A Dialogue on Events that Changed Vancouver
The Vancouver City Planning Commission is pleased to present Milestones 2017 on February 5, 2018. Our third annual Year in Review public forum, it’s a...
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Book Review – Velotopia: The Production of Cyclespace in Our Minds and Our Cities
Author: Steven Fleming (nai010 publishers, 2017) “No one would say Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin did good for the world, but we can learn so much from his...
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The curious state of cycling in Japan
When we look for examples of great cycling cities or countries, we often look to Denmark or the Netherlands. For a good reason, of course—these places...
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A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1972
City of Vancouver Archives, opened in 1972. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. In 1972, the NPA’s reign was over, the City Archives were officially opened...
By Chuck Davis