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Video Vancouver: Designing the Rental Housing Renaissance
Via The Tyee: There’s been a three decade lag of rental housing in Canada, but development is finally starting to pick up again. Here’s our...
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Book Review: What Makes a Great City
Author: Alexander Garvin (Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2016) Alexander Garvin is an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Architecture...
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Masters of West Coast Modernism
This past week, the West Vancouver Museum hosted Masters of West Coast Modernism, a reception featuring the architecture of five living legends of West...
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Event: Vancouver Art Book Fair, Oct. 13-17
The Vancouver Art Book Fair—Canada’s first and longest-running international art book fair—returns to the Vancouver Art Gallery from October 13 to...
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Video Vancouver: Meditation Park
Via The Tyee: An East Van Family Story in ‘Meditation Park’ It’s a movie filmed in Vancouver that actually takes place in Vancouver! Meet an East Van...
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Driverless Cars and the Suburban Renaissance
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Some people debate whether Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company...
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Event – HUB’s Bike the Night Ride! Saturday, Sept. 16th
Due to popular demand, HUB Cycling is organizing BC’s only fully permitted, open streets night ride on Saturday, September 16, 2017. Bike the...
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Video: Getting Around the Vancouver Way
Via City of Vancouver: Vancouver is one of the best cities in the world to get around by bike, on foot, or even by skateboard. We prioritize...
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Video Vancouver: Richmond/Kowloon
Vancouver-based Greg Girard spent three decades working and living in Asia examining the social and physical transformations of some of its largest cities...
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Event: BIG TIMES screening at VIFF 2017!
Big Time (Vancouver International Film Festival) WHEN: Sept 28 – Oct 13 Big Time DIR. KASPAR ASTRUP SCHRÖDER,, DENMARK Seven arduous, successful...
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EVENT: Volunteer Downtown Public Space & Public Life Study with CoV and Gehl, Sept 14 & 16
Public Space & Public Life Study Shifts: Thursday, Sept 14 and Saturday, Sept 16 Training: Wednesday, Sept 13 from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the Roundhouse...
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Book Review – Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays
Editor: Nancy S. Steinhardt (Princeton University Press, 2017) The study of traditional Chinese architecture and building techniques has come a long way...
By Ulduz Maschaykh
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered