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Vaudeville Vancouver: An Interview with Tom Carter
For Tom Carter – an artist and entertainment historian with a penchant for Vancouver’s lost theatre district – an essential piece of heritage advocacy involves telling colourful stories about...
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EVENTS: We The City: 2015 Community Summit
Via SFU Public Square: From October 30th to November 7th, SFU Public Square will host its fourth annual Community Summit. This year, through a series of imaginative and interactive events, we will...
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Book Review: A Line in the Andes/Una Linea En Los Andes
Editor: Felipe Correa & Ramiro Almeida (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2013) “What country is that?” is a common question I get as people stare blankly at the yellow, blue and red soccer...
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RELEASE: Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective on CBC
Last spring, Vancouver’s Thursdays Writing Collective – running out the the Downtown Eastside – filmed a short video for CBC’s The Collective Project. The CBC endeavour invited 11 arts groups across...
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Message to Trudeau: Voters spoke loud and clear for cities
A month before the election, Calgary’s hugely popular mayor Naheed Nenshi told a reporter: “Whoever gets transit right, whoever figures out how to improve the quality of life for people who live in...
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Critical Elements to Make Pedestrian Streets Work
We currently dedicate an excessive amount of street public space for the movement and storage of automobiles. We can bring dignity to our streets where people live, work and play by reclaiming it for...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy Symposium, Call for Abstracts
Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of Design March 10-12, 2016 | University of British Columbia, Vancouver View the conference website This is a call for...
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Video Vancouver: No Fun City
▶ Music Produced by Gunnarolla Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/gunnarolla Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ gunnarolla ▶ Vocals Recorded & Mastered by Justin Villarosa — Soundcloud:...
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Halloween For Planning Nerds: CANDY DENSITY
Halloween is an Urbanist Holiday (shhh don’t tell anybody) Halloween as a Holiday – more than any other – is about neighbourhood. It is a holiday that teaches and surpasses what it means to be part of...
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SFU Launches We the City Community Summit Oct. 30th to Nov. 7th
Simon Frasier University’s We The City Summit kicked off its fourth major community summit Researching The City on October 30th 2015, where 19 presenters showcased their research projects in an...
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Urban forestry and the greening of Canadian cities
Call it the second wave of urban greening: hot on the heels of urban farming, urban forestry is emerging as the new frontier of sustainable urban planning and land use. Canada’s urban forest exists in...
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Book Review – Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and...
Author: Steve McDonald (Chronicle Books, 2015) Fantastic Cities is a colouring book. Not a colouring book intended for children, but for adults. Created by Steve McDonald, his first book is a...
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EVENT: VHF free public art launch, Nov. 12th
Join Vancouver Heritage Foundation as we celebrate a new public art piece at The WALL with a free artist talk.On Thursday, November 12th at 12pm at CBC Studio 700, artist Faith Moosang will speak...
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Overhaul or demolish 24 Sussex?
Much has recently been discussed about the restoration or demolition and replacement of 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa. Like many old buildings, this house has asbestos, leaky windows, and a terrifying...
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Video Vancouver: TILT City—Engagaing the Street
On November 4, 2015, over 100 designers ,architects, students and community members took to the street of downtown Vancouver as part of TILT City, a day long creative exercise focused on engaging with...
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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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Travel in Nunatsiavut, Labrador is a little different
Travelling in the winter can be a pain, it’s also just part of being Canadian. While we complain about winter driving and delayed flights, in most of Canada, year round travel and freedom of movement...
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Good Intent and Design Fail in Chinatown
Inserting new structures into older urban environments can be tricky. The rhythm of the street and its storefronts, sidewalk width, building height etc. all play a role in the success of any new...
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Early Vancouver Tourism: A Natural Industry
Tourism has been a big part of Vancouver’s story since early into its history. Long known as a ‘distinctive destination’, many of the historic places created in the early 1900s endure today as reasons...
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