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Video Vancouver: TILT City—Engagaing the Street
On November 4, 2015, over 100 designers ,architects, students and community members took to the street of downtown Vancouver as part of TILT City, a day...
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EVENT: VHF free public art launch, Nov. 12th
Join Vancouver Heritage Foundation as we celebrate a new public art piece at The WALL with a free artist talk.On Thursday, November 12th at 12pm at CBC...
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Book Review – Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined
Author: Steve McDonald (Chronicle Books, 2015) Fantastic Cities is a colouring book. Not a colouring book intended for children, but for adults. Created...
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SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th
Simon Frasier University’s We The City Summit kicked off its fourth major community summit Researching The City on October 30th 2015, where 19...
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Urban forestry and the greening of Canadian cities
Call it the second wave of urban greening: hot on the heels of urban farming, urban forestry is emerging as the new frontier of sustainable urban planning...
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Halloween For Planning Nerds: CANDY DENSITY
Halloween is an Urbanist Holiday (shhh don’t tell anybody) Halloween as a Holiday – more than any other – is about neighbourhood. It is a holiday that...
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Video Vancouver: No Fun City
▶ Music Produced by Gunnarolla Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/gunnarolla Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ gunnarolla ▶ Vocals Recorded & Mastered...
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RELEASE: Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective on CBC
Last spring, Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective – running out the the Downtown Eastside – filmed a short video for CBC’s The...
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EVENTS: We The City: 2015 Community Summit
Via SFU Public Square: From October 30th to November 7th, SFU Public Square will host its fourth annual Community Summit. This year, through a series of...
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Vaudeville Vancouver: An Interview with Tom Carter
For Tom Carter – an artist and entertainment historian with a penchant for Vancouver’s lost theatre district – an essential piece of heritage...
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New Welcome Centre: A Potential Poster-Child for Housing Refugees
According to the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSBC), between 2009 and 2013, a total 8,319 refugees arrived in British Columbia. This...
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VIDEO VANCOUVER: We the City: An Evening at the Centre
Join artists Candy Chang, Teju Cole, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Mo Dhaliwal for an engaging and interactive celebration of the important role that arts and...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered