Urban Design
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RELEASE: Kickstarter Pledges Bring Vancouver’s Ackery’s Alley to Life
Following a 30-day Kickstarter campaign, More Awesome Now, creators of Vancouver’s first reimagined laneway, Alley-Oop, have achieved the funding needed...
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Video Vancouver: Bute Rhapsody
By small places: With the lines of buildings fixed, it can be a challenge to find space for public seating. Yet just south of Robson at Bute is a newly...
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Book Review From the Stacks: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation...
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Help transform downtown Vancouver’s Ackery’s Alley
After last year’s “Alley-Oop” transformation of an alley near West Hastings and Granville streets, in downtown Vancouver the team at...
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RELEASE: VAG North Plaza reopens
Upgrades to the North Plaza of the Vancouver Art Gallery are completing this week in time for the Jazz Festival on Saturday. “The plaza to the north of...
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EVENT: City Conversations—A New Northeast False Creek Park, June 7, 2017
Presentation & Conversation on Northeast False Creek Park Design The Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver, in partnership with SFU City...
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Recap: Vancouver Design Week(end) 2017
Via Vancouver Design Week: With over 50 events in just two days the second edition of the Vancouver’s official interdisciplinary design festival...
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RELEASE: Vancouver Design Week(end) 2017
Showcasing stand out design talent from the edge of the world Vancouver’s official interdisciplinary design festival is back. After a successful...
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EVENT: Jane’s Walk, Burnabyism: Envisioning 52,600 people in Brentwood
Burnabyism: Envisioning 52,600 people in Brentwood (Gilmore SkyTrain Station) WHEN: May 6, 2017, 2:30 PM, LENGTH: 2 Hours About This Walk The population...
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Release: REFBC Building Change report released
People live in places. The places that we build – small towns, communities, cities, suburbs – all have impacts on our environment and on shared resources...
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Video Vancouver: Granville Island
Evoke DIALOG | Granville Island | Vancouver, BC from DIALOG on Vimeo. Via Dialog Design: Heralded by planners, politicians and in publications worldwide...
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EVENT: Brasilia: Life After Design (Film), May 8th
Join the Museum of Vancouver for the Canadian premiere of Bart Simpson’s sublime urban documentary film, BRASILIA: Life After Design (Canada/UK...
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