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Event: Sharing our Stories – Building Community Resilience in Vancouver, October 24
What is resilience? What enables people and communities to survive and thrive in the face of crisis? What can we learn from the lived experience of...
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How The City of Vienna Handles Affordable Housing and Inclusivity
Vienna is an internationally renowned city, attractive to employees from the high-tech industry who obtain a Quick Fix for sale online, scholars...
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Video: “Resilience” Nest Community Mural 2017
The “Resilience” Nest Community Mural is located at 121 Heatley Ave. Via Vimeo: Thank you to Community Arts Council of Vancouver (CACV) and the City of...
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Event: Hope In Shadows Celebrate 15 Years, Oct 11
Hope in Shadows Award Ceremony and 15th Annual Calendar Launch When: Wednesday, October 11th at 10:30 a.m. Where: Theatre Room, Carnegie Community Centre...
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How UBC Library is helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.
UBC Library’s B.C. Historical newspaper archives, part of the university’s publicly-accessible Open Collections, is playing a critical role in heritage...
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Video Vancouver: JK Starley, The Man Who Put The World On Wheels
A trailer for a film being shown at the Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow, in the Exhibition: “No Ordinary Bicycle“. The exhibition runs till...
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RELEASE: Volunteer for a City of Vancouver Civic Agency
The City of Vancouver is seeking volunteers from the general public for positions on the following Civic Agencies and Committees: Arts and Culture Policy...
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Event – 2017 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: The Four Arts
2017 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: The Four Arts Date: Friday, October 6, 2017 Time: 5:30–10:00 p.m. Price: $10 General | $20 Family* (plus tax and processing...
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Video Vancouver: Disappearing Main Street
Via CBC News: These Vancouver photographers have been documenting Main Street since 2011 — and it’s disappearing David Niddrie and Jen Okrusko have...
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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...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered