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Release: Former Vancouverite launches Ondergronds – Conversations between strangers on metro trains
What if everyone around you had an inspiring story to share? What if we lived in a city where strangers talked to each other? What if there was a way to...
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Vancouver Art Gallery Reflections
I’m not sure when the informed, intelligent culture of design that characterized the formative years of Vancouver transformed, but Herzog And De Meuron’s...
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EVENTS: 42nd Annual Circle Craft Christmas Market – November 11-15, 2015
CIRCLE CRAFT CHRISTMAS MARKET: November 11-15, 2015 | Vancouver Convention Centre West Hours: Wednesday through Friday: 10 am – 9 pm; Saturday: 10 am – 7...
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Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 2
Yesterday, we highlight the speakers and issues discussed at the SFU’s Housing in the City Beyond The Headlines storytelling event last Monday. The...
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RELEASE: Thousands Re-Imagine Downtown Vancouver in 2040
11,000 Dreamers ‘Re-Imagined’ Downtown Vancouver as a Rain-proofed, Affordable Home for all in 2040 In 2040, downtown Vancouver will be: a healthy...
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Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 1
In 2007, Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right for Adequate Housing, called Canada’s housing situation for its most...
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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...
By Brendan Hurley
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered