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Dec. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Grant Applications Close January 5: Want to Take Your Planning Team to Copenhagen?

How would you like your planning and health team to go on a five day workshop to…

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Dec. 02, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Making Healthy Places: Designing & Building for Well-Being & Equity

Here are three sought after thinkers about place and space all together in one webinar thanks to Island Press. They…

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Dec. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Earthworks Artist Michael Heizer’s “City” Now Open

Last November Viewpoint Vancouver wrote about the monolith that was found in the desert in Utah. It had been…

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Nov. 30, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free In-Person Event/Online Webinar: Facing the Flames: Co-Existing with Forest Fire

This is both an in-person and an online event. The emergence of catastrophic mega-fires over the past five years demands…

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Nov. 30, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver: Why Can’t We Just Have Public Washrooms?

Viewpoint Vancouver has continually written about the need for public washrooms as a basic need for everyone. It is also…

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Nov. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Stop! Changing Driver Behaviour At Schools As If Every Life Matters

Prairie Paul on twitter is King’s Counsel lawyer Paul Doroshenko. He has posted a series of images on twitter as…

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Nov. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Women, Food & Agriculture: Solutions to the Plastic Crisis

As part of the Women Food and Agriculture Network Conference in the first weekend of December, Erica Cirino will be…

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Nov. 28, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver & Why Regional Government Really Matters

CBC’s Man of Municipalities Justin McElroy attended the first meeting of the new board of Metro Vancouver, which is the…

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Nov. 28, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Slow Traffic & Make Your Streets Safer? BC Vision Zero Grants Now Available

Nathan Davidowicz has been an active travel advocate for over three decade. He sends out to interested parties “BC Canada…

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Nov. 25, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Winter Snow Maintenance and Active School Travel

Between 2020 and 2022, Green Communities Canada and the Human Environments Analysis Lab at Western University conducted extensive policy research…

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Nov. 24, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Understanding Disaster Insurance & How That Changes Planning Cities

The frequency and intensity of natural disasters—such as hurricanes, floods, and storms—are on the rise, threatening our way of life…

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Nov. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Province Tells Cities to Build More, Turns Strata Units Into The New Rental Units

The new premier of British Columbia David Eby used to be a housing minister and was the former attorney general.…

Nov. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Walkability, Exploring Destinations Through Urban Design

Exploring Spatial Destinations through an Urban Design Context The relationship between a person’s mobility, i.e., walking, bicycle, wheelchair, car, is…

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Nov. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Rethinking Driverless Technology: Autonomous Vehicles Are Not As Smart as Promised

Over the past few years Viewpoint Vancouver has been gently reminding that autonomous vehicles with their self-driving features are not…

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