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Building Resilience, One Block at a Time
For several years, I lived on a residential street near Danforth Avenue (Greek Town) in Toronto. It was a welcoming street of older single-family homes...
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Video Vancouver: Rainy Day (with @5kids1condo)
Via small places: Those rainy days on the cycle ways: shopping, sloshing, stopping, onward again. Family time downtown, all mere blocks from home. Pilot...
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Video Vancouver: Boxes | Let’s Unlock Cities
Via Uber: Watch what happens when boxes overflow a city to the point of hilarity. Imagine if they were cars… #ridetogether Behind the Scenes Via...
By Yuri Artibise -
Vancouver 2.0
Tucked into the north-east corner of Vancouver lies the unassuming neighbourhood of Hastings-Sunrise. Bound by the waters of the Burrard Inlet to the...
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Warren Gill Lecture Series: What is happening to my neighbourhood? December 1, 2017
The Annual Warren Gill Lecture Series Presented by Simon Fraser University’s City Program What is happening to my neighbourhood? The socio-spatial...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Burrard Bridge Turns a Corner
Via small places: Building on interim changes from the last decade, the Burrard Bridge has landed firmly in downtown – bringing a significant...
By Yuri Artibise -
Release: DVBIA’s Perch Program fetches positive feedback
How do you feel when you are in this space? That’s one of the questions that the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) asked...
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Video Vancouver: Rethinking The City
Via Complexity Labs: Urban Networks – Rethinking the City is our research paper providing in-depth analysis on the current urban transformation...
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Copenhagen: Textbook Urbanism
Jan Gehl is probably the best tour guide you could ever hope for in Copenhagen. And so it was, after luxuriating over a couple of long lunches together...
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Video Vancouver: Cruel Musical Chairs (or Why Is Rent So High?)
Via Sightline Institute: How does a growing, prospering city stay affordable for all kinds of people? At the most basic level, when there aren’t enough...
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Video Vancouver: Time Lapse – Commercial-Broadway Station Walkway Installation
Via Translink: Over the September 30 and October 1 weekend, crews successfully lifted into place the steel frame for the new overhead walkway at...
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Book Review – Big City Bees
How do city kids relate to the seasons and to where their food comes from? Their connection to nature can be just as rich and deep as any suburban...
By Vanessa Kay
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered