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The Laws of Settlements book available for free online!
Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? This is the question that drove me to write The...
By Erick Villagomez -
Video Vancouver: Life in Lockdown
Douglas Quan was getting a little stir-crazy at home last weekend so he decided to go out and shoot a video. Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-…
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review—Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places
Authors: Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, Stefan Al (Island Press, 2017) The cumulative consequences of this nearly singular focus on expeditious movement...
By Becca Mayers -
Urban Technologies: The Unintended Consequences
If you walk by the bike parkade at Main Street Science World in the evening you will see a handful of bikes. If you look closely, you’ll notice that a...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Video Vancouver: Grandma On The Move
Via City of Vancouver: Commissioned by the City of Vancouver, Grandma on the Move, features award-winning children’s entertainers, Will Stroet and the...
By Yuri Artibise -
What Vancouver Housing Needs Is Some Public Process Sorcery
The recent publication of former Vancouver head planner Larry Beasley’s new book Vancouverism provides an opportunity for us to both look back at how this...
By Patrick Condon -
Video Vancouver: Life on a Dutch Woonerf (Living Street)
Via Streetfilms When I posted on Facebook that I was headed to The Netherlands once again to visit (for my first time) to Utrecht, as usual I got a lot of...
By Yuri Artibise -
Event – Vancouverism Book Launch + Presentation, June 17th
On Monday, June 17th we will be celebrating international planning and urban design expert Larry Beasley’s new book Vancouverism. Please join us for the...
By Spacing -
RAIC Metro Vancouver – Built City Speaker Series
Guest Contributor: Gloria Venczel As the Thought Leader these past 3 years for the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Metro Vancouver Network’s...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Shaping The Plaza – The Conception of Vancouver’s Urban Skatepark
Vancouver skateboarders through the Skateboard Coalition successfully lobbied for making it legal to skate on Vancouver’s streets. This is also...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Northeast False Creek Plan – Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award
Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award Northeast False Creek Plan Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Summary Adopted by the Vancouver City...
By Yuri Artibise -
Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars
From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before the neighbourhood...
By Christopher Cheung