Articles

Featured image for “Free Webinar-Centering Equity: Vancouver All-Candidates Forum”

Aug. 18, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar-Centering Equity: Vancouver All-Candidates Forum

Join Women Transforming Cities, YWCA Metro Vancouver, SFU Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and SFU Public Square as…

Featured image for “Is this the Updated “Vancouver Special” of Richmond Hill Ontario?”

Aug. 16, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Is this the Updated “Vancouver Special” of Richmond Hill Ontario?

Sixty years ago if you wanted to build a detached house in Vancouver you were limited by square footage on…

Featured image for “Free Webinar: SmartGrowth Network on Managing the Climate Crisis”

Aug. 16, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: SmartGrowth Network on Managing the Climate Crisis

Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire The climate, relatively stable for centuries, is…

Featured image for “One Pedestrian Death a Month in Vancouver & Vision Zero-“At Least You Are Talking to Each Other””

Aug. 15, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

One Pedestrian Death a Month in Vancouver & Vision Zero-“At Least You Are Talking to Each Other”

Vision Zero refers to zero road deaths and no serious injuries on roads, with the philosophy that every life matters. …

Featured image for “Free Webinar: Creating Equitable & Sustainable Urban Heritage Tourism Districts”

Aug. 15, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Creating Equitable & Sustainable Urban Heritage Tourism Districts

Thursday, August 18 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time You can register by clicking this link. Urban (heritage) tourism has become…

Featured image for “HUB Cycling Presents Local Community Ride in Richmond”

Aug. 12, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

HUB Cycling Presents Local Community Ride in Richmond

Join us for a summer ride to help celebrate Bike to Shop week and see some Richmond scenery on your…

Featured image for “Servicing Agreement for Squamish Nation’s Senakw Development Now Public”

Aug. 08, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Servicing Agreement for Squamish Nation’s Senakw Development Now Public

Earlier this year Mayor Stewart announced that a servicing agreement had been signed between the Squamish First Nation and the…

Featured image for “And They Are Off! Mayor’s Race for City of Vancouver From 40 Years Ago”

Aug. 03, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

And They Are Off! Mayor’s Race for City of Vancouver From 40 Years Ago

On August 15 we come up to the the 60 day mark until the municipal elections in Vancouver and it’s…

Featured image for “Free Webinar: Conservation: Parks, Rewilding & Local Development”

Aug. 03, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Conservation: Parks, Rewilding & Local Development

Join us for a virtual discussion with conservationist and author Ignacio Jiménez about his book Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and…

Featured image for “Why Don’t We Value Trees in the City of Vancouver? Even the Jurisdiction is Confusing”

Aug. 02, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Why Don’t We Value Trees in the City of Vancouver? Even the Jurisdiction is Confusing

Last week Viewpoint Vancouver wrote about the magic of trees in the city with data showing the tremendous remediation that trees…

Featured image for “Free Webinar: Leading an Equitable Energy Transition”

Aug. 02, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Leading an Equitable Energy Transition

Join us on Thursday, August 4th at 2:30 p.m. ET in conversation with Michelle Moore, CEO of Groundswell, author of…

Featured image for “Breathing Better in Cities & The Many Miracles of Street Trees”

Jul. 29, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Breathing Better in Cities & The Many Miracles of Street Trees

It was over ten years ago that a study called “Sustaining America’s Urban Trees and Forests worked out that one…

Featured image for “Secrets of the Summer City: The Culinary Treasures & Grassy Patio of Discovery Street’s D.I.C.E.D.”

Jul. 27, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Secrets of the Summer City: The Culinary Treasures & Grassy Patio of Discovery Street’s D.I.C.E.D.

Viewpoint Vancouver has a culinary side and we hope you have checked out our posts and secret information on the…

Featured image for “Free Webinar with SmartGrowth USA: John Muir, Walking, & 150 Years of Change”

Jul. 26, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar with SmartGrowth USA: John Muir, Walking, & 150 Years of Change

What changes in 150 years in nature? And did you know that John Muir the naturalist walked from Kentucky to…

Articles

See All

Featured image for “Human Rights and Cities – How Can Municipalities Do the Right Thing?”

Human Rights and Cities – How Can Municipalities Do the Right Thing?

David Sadoway

Featured image for “Goodbye and Thanks!”

Goodbye and Thanks!

Sandy James Planner

Featured image for “Free Webinar: Jonathan Cote on Transforming Urban Leadership”

Free Webinar: Jonathan Cote on Transforming Urban Leadership

Sandy James Planner

Featured image for “Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their Time”

Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their Time

Sandy James Planner

Popular Articles

See All

All Articles

Featured image for “50th Anniversary of the Agricultural Land Commission Act”

50th Anniversary of the Agricultural Land Commission Act

Featured image for “Viewpoint: end of an era”

Viewpoint: end of an era

Featured image for “Human Rights and Cities – How Can Municipalities Do the Right Thing?”

Human Rights and Cities – How Can Municipalities Do the Right Thing?

Featured image for “Goodbye and Thanks!”

Goodbye and Thanks!

Featured image for “Free Webinar: Jonathan Cote on Transforming Urban Leadership”

Free Webinar: Jonathan Cote on Transforming Urban Leadership