Urban Design
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RELEASE: COV Northeast False Creek final plan will be going to Council, Jan. 31
The City of Vancouver has released the final plan for Northeast False Creek, which will guide the creation of a vibrant new waterfront destination. The...
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Vancouver’s urban agriculture movement
SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VANCOUVER: GLOBALIZATION & NEOLIBERALISM While globalization has come to be a highly-circulated term...
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Video Vancouver: Northeast False Creek Animation
Via Joseph Hruda: Concord Pacific Waterfront Entertainment District Master Plan & Animation by: CIVITAS Urban Design & Planning, Vancouver, Canada...
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EVENT: Milestones 2017 — A Dialogue on Events that Changed Vancouver
The Vancouver City Planning Commission is pleased to present Milestones 2017 on February 5, 2018. Our third annual Year in Review public forum, it’s a...
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Book Review – Velotopia: The Production of Cyclespace in Our Minds and Our Cities
Author: Steven Fleming (nai010 publishers, 2017) “No one would say Le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin did good for the world, but we can learn so much from his...
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The curious state of cycling in Japan
When we look for examples of great cycling cities or countries, we often look to Denmark or the Netherlands. For a good reason, of course—these places...
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Video Vancouver: Residential streets are too wide. Here’s why.
Via City Beautiful: In many places in the United States, residential streets were as wide as busy city streets. I understand why urban streets might need...
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review – Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America
u http://spacing.ca/vancouver/2018/01/02/book-reviews-courtyard-housing-for-health-and-happiness-architectural-multiculturalism-in-north-america/ Author...
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Video Vancouver: Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches
Via Vox: That bench won’t be yours forever. When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities...
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Video Vancouver: Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
Via Vox: Shared space designs, explained with 99% Invisible. Some cities in Europe are undergoing a fascinating transformation: they’re getting rid of all...
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A Vancouver Parable: False Prophets, Green Illusions and Vanishing Neighbourhoods
A stroll along Vancouver’s Broadway west of Macdonald offers the pedestrian many small, engaging storefronts. The low awnings provide human-scaled...
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Video Vancouver: Places for People Downtown
Via City of Vancouver: What’s your vision for public space in Downtown Vancouver? Over the summer, the City of Vancouver launched Places for People...
By Yuri Artibise