Urban Design

Vancouver’s West End Gentrification

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett It’s one of the most densely...

Urban Reef: Meet the winning team of the 2014 Robson Redux

Kaz Bremner and Jeremiah Deutscher are two young intern architects, and the design duo of a four-person team, that have won the inaugural Robson Redux...

The Strathcona Story: A community that fought back, and the Architect that helped rebuild

In December of 1968, the residents of one of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods, Strathcona, were faced with losing their neighbourhood. Whole city blocks...

10 Ideas that are Changing the World

The GLOBE series 2014 Conference brought together policy makers and industry leaders to explore ideas and share real world examples of sustainable design...

Studies on the West End – Camera Obscura 1555 Georgia Street

[Editor’s Note: Schools are the repository of ideas and experimentation. All too frequently, however, interesting and provocative work remains...

Where Happiness and Urban Design Intersect: An Interview with Happy City Author, Charles Montgomery

Charles Montgomery is a man with an obsession.  He’s spent years investigating the link between cities and happiness.  Montgomery’s findings...

Book Review – Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City

Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer (MIT Press, 2011) This is a small book of a hundred or so pages that offers 100 bits of advice on how cities...

City of Surrey 2014 PARKit Design Challenge

The City of Surrey is pleased to announce the return of our pop-up park design-build competition, the 2014 PARKit Design Challenge. Individuals and groups...

Invitation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter: Original Border

Video Vancouver: Are the Suburbs Ready to Retire?

Young American families are increasingly ditching suburban life for city living, says Leigh Gallagher, author of the new book, The End of the...

Event: Innovative Approaches to Managing Suburban Sprawl – January 20, 2014

The Canadian Urban Institute and Sustainable Prosperity in collaboration with Simon Fraser University  and the Urban Development Institute invite you to...

The French Quarter Parklet — Vancouver’s newest parklet melts cycling and chocolate together at last!

The City of Vancouver has embarked on a Parklet Pilot Program, under the VIVA Vancouver program, that provides funding to interested applicants who wish...