Urban Design
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EVENT: 2019 Year-in-Review Workshop
Workshopping the planning milestones that transformed Vancouver in 2019 Year in Review 2019 is the 5th annual workshop convened by the Vancouver City...
By Vancouver City Planning Commission -
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 -
Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink
Accessibility is a key priority of any public transit system. While much-needed efforts are underway in making bus stops and SkyTrain stations more...
By Max Kittner -
Event: Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage?, Oct. 9
Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage When: Wed, Oct. 9, 2019 | 7-9 p.m. Where: Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, SFU Goldcorp...
By Spacing -
Book Review: Suburban Remix – Creating The Next Generation of Urban Places
Editors: Jason Beske and David Dixon (Island Press, 2018) According to the 2017 American Housing Survey, the majority of Americans live in the suburbs...
By Ulduz Maschaykh -
Vancouver’s Housing Crisis: A Collaborative Opportunity for Planners and Architects
The time is now. Architects and landscape architects need to be active participants in urban planning and land-use decision-making processes. Not...
By danielroehr -
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: Larry Beasley on Vancouverism
Via TransLink Larry Beasley, a TransLink board member and former planner chief planner for the City of Vancouver, talks about his new book...
By Yuri Artibise -
On Walking and the Future of Cities: An Evening with Jeff Speck
On a balmy Tuesday night I found myself walking towards Lost Lagoon along Alberni Street. I parked my car at a nearby parking garage, slightly frustrated...
By Jeremy Senko -
Podcast: The Laws of Settlements with Erick Villagomez
From a small Nova Scotia town to booming Barcelona to the mega-city of Jakarta, are there any laws that govern all human settlements? Are there consistent...
By Spacing -
Why New West Station’s Plaza 88 is one of a kind
You’ll lose your breath trying to describe Plaza 88. It wraps an elevated SkyTrain station with seven storeys of parking and two levels of shops and...
By Christopher Cheung -
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