Streetscape
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Video Vancouver: Burrard Bridge Turns a Corner
Via small places: Building on interim changes from the last decade, the Burrard Bridge has landed firmly in downtown – bringing a significant...
By Yuri Artibise -
How UBC Library is helping to preserve heritage buildings in Vancouver.
UBC Library’s B.C. Historical newspaper archives, part of the university’s publicly-accessible Open Collections, is playing a critical role in heritage...
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Book Review: What Makes a Great City
Author: Alexander Garvin (Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2016) Alexander Garvin is an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Architecture...
By Fausto -
Driverless Cars and the Suburban Renaissance
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Some people debate whether Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company...
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EVENT: Volunteer Downtown Public Space & Public Life Study with CoV and Gehl, Sept 14 & 16
Public Space & Public Life Study Shifts: Thursday, Sept 14 and Saturday, Sept 16 Training: Wednesday, Sept 13 from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the Roundhouse...
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Video Vancouver: Stand up for Public Space
Via UN-Habitat: In this lecture, Luisa Bravo, president of City Space Architecture, advocates for that public space in cities is a common good, meant to...
By Yuri Artibise -
Video Vancouver: Transform Your City With Tactical Urbanism
Via Streetsfilms: If you’re a public space aficionado or transportation maven, one only needs to sign on to one of the various social media feeds to...
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: VPSN, Laneway Living Rooms: Grandma’s House, July 29th
Laneway Living Rooms: Grandma’s House WHEN: 12pm – 9pm Saturday, July 29th, 2017 WHERE: 1027 Commercial Drive laneway (south of Venables St between Parker...
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Video Vancouver: The High Cost of Free Parking
Via Vox: Hidden parking rules hurt our cities. Will Chilton and Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab explain.
By Yuri Artibise -
RELEASE: Oh! Interactive Art Allows Visitors To Control Lights on Iconic Science World Dome
Scale model of Science World allows the public to affect the skyline of the iconic dome with their hands Tangible Interaction, a Vancouver-based art and...
By Spacing -
RELEASE: Vancouver unveils new Indigenous murals as part of Canada 150+
Via: City of Vancouver The City of Vancouver, as part of its Canada 150+ program, commissioned a series of six paint and print murals created by...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Happy Streets Living Labs
What is Happy Streets Living Lab? Join Happy Streets participant Amanda Leahy as she describes the experiment and how the different setting influenced her...
By Yuri Artibise