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Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 1
In 2007, Miloon Kothari, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right for Adequate Housing, called Canada’s housing situation for its most vulnerable population ‘a national crisis’ . In his...
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RELEASE: Thousands Re-Imagine Downtown Vancouver in 2040
11,000 Dreamers ‘Re-Imagined’ Downtown Vancouver as a Rain-proofed, Affordable Home for all in 2040 In 2040, downtown Vancouver will be: a healthy, life-affirming place a network of connected greenways...
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Solving The Housing Crisis at SFU: Part 2
Yesterday, we highlight the speakers and issues discussed at the SFU’s Housing in the City Beyond The Headlines storytelling event last Monday. The Actions for Housing Now workshop on Tuesday was very...
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EVENTS: 42nd Annual Circle Craft Christmas Market – November 11-15, 2015
CIRCLE CRAFT CHRISTMAS MARKET: November 11-15, 2015 | Vancouver Convention Centre West Hours: Wednesday through Friday: 10 am – 9 pm; Saturday: 10 am – 7 pm; Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm Admission: $14...
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Vancouver Art Gallery Reflections
I’m not sure when the informed, intelligent culture of design that characterized the formative years of Vancouver transformed, but Herzog And De Meuron’s proposal for the Vancouver Art Gallery is...
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Book Review: Start-Up City
Author: Gabe Klein (Island Press, 2015) When I was in my second year of University I wrote a blog post that got a lot of (very rare) traction. I pitted the new ride-sharing program Car2Go against...
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Release: Former Vancouverite launches Ondergronds – Conversations between...
What if everyone around you had an inspiring story to share? What if we lived in a city where strangers talked to each other? What if there was a way to have real conversations on public transit? From...
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How to have better conversations about Paris
This article was co-written with Beyhan Farhadi Immediately following the Paris attacks a deep divide emerged. On one side, there were messages of solidarity, hashtag mobilization, and temporary...
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Why I Design – Interactive and Engaging Design at Museum of Vancouver
According to a study conducted by Hill Strategies, residents in British Columbia have higher than average participation rates in art galleries, classical music performances, historic sites,...
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Adaptive Re-Use: The Joy of Re-purposed Buildings
VHF would like to thank this post’s guest writer, Marta Farevaag – Urban Planner. In Vancouver, our residential neighbourhoods are strikingly homogeneous – rows of towers or rows of houses. The few...
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RELEASE: Vancouver-based Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Programming Announced
Vancouver-based Roundhouse Radio 98.3 announced an expansion of its programming line-up. With a mandate to provide hyper-local content about the people, communities and organizations that make up the...
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EVENT: Vancouver Vanishes Book Launch and Discussion, Nov. 23rd
Anvil Press is please to invite you to the Vancouver Vanishes book launch and discussion of Vancouver’s vanishing heritage hosted by Caroline Adderson: WHEN: Monday, November 23, 2015 – 7pm WHERE:...
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Water Urbanisms
Vancouver is a rainy city surrounded by water. It is part of the Pacific Northwest, a place whose regional identity is almost wholly linked to its natural setting, with water at its heart. The city...
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Book Review – Site Specific
Editor: Karen Forbes (ORO Editions, 2015) Site Specific: Conversations with Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Róisín Heneghan, Bjarne Mastenbroek, Bjarke Ingels, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Patrik Schumacher,...
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Video Vancouver: What is Urban Planning?
What is Urban Planning to you? Share your thoughts with us at facebook.com/agoraplanningjournal Created by: Dan Sommerville & Betsy Cooper Drawings by: Betsy Cooper Photography/Editing: Adam Smith...
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Event: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a tiny few, and the global rural to urban...
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Book Review: House Shumiatcher
Written by Leslie Van Duzer, UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series (ORO Editions, 2015) This is the story of a house, designed by hatmaker-turned-architect Judah Shumiatcher, built for his family in...
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EVENT: MOV/Urbanarium – Vancouver Debates I, Jan. 20
Vancouver Debates I – Open All Neighbourhoods to Densification WHEN: Wednesday, January 20 WHERE: Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC, How and where will Vancouver and its region...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – Abstract...
This is a reminder you have until January 15, 2016 to submit an abstract to this exciting international symposium titled Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of...
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Is B.C. home to a green building renaissance?
By Karen Tam Wu France was a hub of the Renaissance, an era that saw landmark buildings built in Paris, including parts of the Louvre. So it was fitting that the UN climate conference in Paris hosted...
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