Politics
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Re-Imagining Urban Form & Policy – The (Im)possibility of Design
On March 10 and 11, the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) and The School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) hosted the...
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RELEASE: Council selects Sadhu Johnston as new City Manager
Following a four month international search, Vancouver City Council has selected Sadhu Johnston as the new City Manager for the City of Vancouver. As the...
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EVENTS: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11, 2016
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a...
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The City Before the City: “Righting History” in c̓əsnaʔəm
A public controversy erupted in 2012 when ancestral remains were unearthed during the pre-construction of a condo development on southwest Marine Drive...
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Museum of Vancouver Launches Your Future Home: Creating The New Vancouver
Following last week’s Vancouver Debates #1 kick off event at the Museum of Vancouver, visitors where invited to the launch of the Your Future Home...
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Is B.C. home to a green building renaissance?
By Karen Tam Wu France was a hub of the Renaissance, an era that saw landmark buildings built in Paris, including parts of the Louvre. So it was fitting...
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EVENT – MOV: Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver, Jan 21-Mar. 15
Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver WHEN: Jan. 21-May 15, 2016 WHERE: Museum of Vancouver – 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC From the...
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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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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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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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EVENT: Who Governs in a Minority? – October 7
SFU Centre for Dialogue and The Vancouver Sun present: IT’S A MINORITY! WHO GETS TO GOVERN? Are you confused by recent statements by each of the party...
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Just Who Is Vancouver’s Top Planner Calling a ‘Hater’?
Guest contributor: Patrick Condon As reported widely this past couple of weeks, Vancouver’s top planner Brian Jackson is definitely ”not going...
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