Streetscape
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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 -
Release: Leonard Street Neighbour Hub Installation, Victoria
On March 31, neighbours of Leonard Street in Victoria, BC will be celebrating the newest addition to their block: a shared emergency supply bench. The...
By Spacing -
Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle
E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer. Last-mile delivery is...
By sylviagreen -
Video Vancouver: Oslo – The Journey to Car-free
Via StreetFilms: In 2015, the newly elected city government of Oslo, Norway, announced its intention to make the downtown car-free by 2019. I immediately...
By Yuri Artibise -
Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?
I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway SkyTrain all the way...
By Patrick Condon -
Video Vancouver: Cambie Connected
Cambie Connected: Cycling Smithe, Nelson, Beatty, and the Bridge via small places It may not have the glamour of the Burrard Bridge or the budget. But...
By Yuri Artibise -
The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series
As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in partnership with the...
By Ulduz Maschaykh