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Bob Williams Reflects: Past, Present & Future
Guest Post: Kenneth Chan Few Vancouverites have had such a profound legacy on building communities in British Columbia as Bob Williams. Now 83 years...
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Book Review: Planting in a Post-Wild World
Authors: Thomas Rainer and Claudia West (Timber Press, 2015) Planting in a Post-Wild World: designing plant communities for resilient landscapes is easily...
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10 Tips for Blogging About Cities
In January, I was invited by the National Capital Commission in Ottawa to speak about urbanism and blogging. It challenged me to reflect on how far my...
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Event—SCCP Webinar: Species at Risk – In Context, May 4th
Webinar: ‘Species at Risk- In Context’ Wednesday, May 4th from 11am – 12:30pm (PST) Join the South Coast Conservation Program as we...
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Video Vancouver: Why you’re safer on a bike share bike
It’s heavy and unwieldy, and that’s a good thing. Read more about the study in this piece from Vox’s Brad Plumer.
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Videos from the 2016 UBC Urban Design Forum
On March 10 and 11, 2016, the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP...
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Vietnam War Resistance in Vancouver
Between 1964-1973, an estimated 100,000 Americans left the United States for Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft or protest the war. Vancouver was one of...
By Madeleine de Trenqualye -
Video Vancouver: Living in Gunter’s World
Under Queen Elizabeth I a priest named Edmund Gunter developed the measures that now frame our modern world. Colonel Richard Moody laid out the skeleton...
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Video Vancouver: Arbutus Greenway
Check out all 11 km of the Arbutus Greenway from False Creek to the Fraser River! (via the City of Vancouver).
By Yuri Artibise -
Kengo Kuma Speaks
As the third in the Gesamtkunstwerk lecture series produced by Westbank, and with the support of the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape...
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Video Vancouver: Then/Now
Via the Vancouver Sun: North Vancouver high school student Mitchell Przybylski posted this video, titled Vancouver Then and Now, in which he seamlessly...
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Vancouver’s “Familiar” Housing Styles: 1950s on
During the mid-century decades in Vancouver home building increased as higher levels of immigration created a need for housing. Designed for function...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered