Streetscape

Video Vancouver: Shaping The Plaza – The Conception of Vancouver’s Urban Skatepark

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Vancouver skateboarders through the Skateboard Coalition successfully lobbied for making it legal to skate on Vancouver’s... Read More

Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars

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From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before... Read More

Release: Leonard Street Neighbour Hub Installation, Victoria

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On March 31, neighbours of Leonard Street in Victoria, BC will be celebrating the newest addition to their block: a shared emergency... Read More

Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle

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E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer... Read More

Video Vancouver: Oslo – The Journey to Car-free

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Via StreetFilms: In 2015, the newly elected city government of Oslo, Norway, announced its intention to make the downtown car-free by... Read More

Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?

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I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway... Read More

Video Vancouver: Cambie Connected

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Cambie Connected: Cycling Smithe, Nelson, Beatty, and the Bridge via small places It may not have the glamour of the Burrard Bridge or... Read More

The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series

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As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in... Read More

A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’

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On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set... Read More