Streetscape
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Selling Bread to Housewives in the 1920s
On a sunny day in East Vancouver in 2011, the new owners of a 1922 building were renovating the ground floor into what is today the Via Tevere Pizzeria...
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EVENT: Downtown Vancouver BIA Launch Vancouver Laneway Pilot Project, Sept. 15th
More Awesome Now reimagined laneway WHEN: Thursday, September 15, 2016 from 5pm-8pm. WHERE: W. Hastings between Seymour and Granville. View map...
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RELEASE: City appoints Gil Kelley as the General Manager of Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability
City of Vancouver News Release: “Gil’s extensive experience in cities like San Francisco and Portland is highly valuable at a time when Vancouver is...
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Touring Downtown Vancouver
The Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC) is a professional self-regulatory body for the architectural community, that has public outreach...
By Fausto -
EVENT: AIBC 2016 Architectural Walking Tours begin Canada Day
Event: Architectural Walking Tours Dates: July 1-August 31, 2016 Times: Thursdays to Mondays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Admission: $10. Space is limited, so...
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EVENT: Shaping Vancouver 2016: What do I want from my street? Change is coming to Cambie, Main, Fraser, June 15th
Shaping Vancouver 2016: What do I want from my street? Change is coming to Cambie, Main, Fraser WHEN: Wednesday, June 15, 2016; TIME: 7pm to 9pm...
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Can Raccoons Teach Us How to Build the City of the Future?
By George Patrick Richard Benson & Jen Roberton Raccoons are unexpectedly resilient creatures in urban landscapes. They have complex territorial...
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RELEASE: Introducing Mobi, Bikes We Share
The name selected for Vancouver’s new bike share program to launch this summer is Mobi (pronounced moe-bee). Vancouver already tops North America for...
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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...
By Shelley Long -
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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Book Review—Draw It: Tools, Techniques, and Methods
Author: Lynn Craig with Cary Perkins (ORO Editions, 2015) Draw It: Tools, Techniques, and Methods teaches the user how to draw buildings, landscapes and...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Book Review: Streetfight—Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Authors: Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow (Viking Penguin, 2016) As New York City’s transportation commissioner under Mayor Michael Bloomberg from...
By Yuri Artibise