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Nov. 25, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Amsterdam’s Winter Festival Celebrates Light

Doesn’t it make sense to have a festival of public art and installations during the darkest months of the year…
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Nov. 14, 2019 / Gordon Price

Senakw Is Not a Gift

From the CBC: “I really think this is a real gift to the city,” said Stewart. “Everything we can do…
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Nov. 01, 2019 / Colin Stein

Coming Soon! is the Public Art Every Construction Site Needs

If you’ve already seen these posters around Vancouver over the past year-plus, then your Vancouver street cred is showing… “Coming…
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Oct. 30, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Halloween International Day of Danger and Death for Pedestrians

Last year I wrote about  the  University of British Columbia study that identified Halloween night as having a 43 per…
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Oct. 24, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Personal Fireworks in Vancouver & Why They are So Last Century

Kudos to City of Vancouver Councillor Pete Fry for bringing forward a motion banning personal fireworks in the city. This…
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Oct. 09, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

US Government Agency Bullies Cities to Nix Rainbow Crosswalks

  We’ve all seen them~those lovely rainbow crosswalks in cities that represent inclusivity and are often tied into  events celebrating…
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Sep. 20, 2019 / Gordon Price

West End Gay Life in a Golden Glow

Imagine the West End in the seventies and early 80s.  After the highrise building boom, before Expo.  And before AIDS.…
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Sep. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

Art and Improvements at Joyce-Collingwood Station

Bob Ransford got it right: the public art piece – ‘Off Centre’ by artist Renee Van Halm – is at…
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Sep. 02, 2019 / Gordon Price

New Art in Vancouver

But where? Guess below.  Answer tomorrow.…
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Aug. 27, 2019 / Gordon Price

Arrington in Barcelona: Festes de Gràcia

I met G.B. Arrington in Portland, Oregon, when he worked for Parsons Brinckerhoff as a cofounder of their Placemaking Group,…
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Aug. 20, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Putting the Plant Back in the House

  Go back 40 years ago and there were two important events on university campuses~one was the  Fall used textbook…
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Aug. 05, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

A Living Legacy~Pat Davis & Vancouver’s 100 Block of West 10th Avenue

John Davis Jr. with Pat Davis It seems only fitting on this civic holiday which is called “British Columbia Day”…
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Aug. 02, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

The Ohrns, Vancouver’s English Bay & Summer

    If you are not in Vancouver this summer, it is understandable if  you think the photo above is…
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Jul. 29, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Talking to Strangers On the Street is a Good Thing

Researchers have found that seemingly trivial encounters with the minor characters in our lives — the random person at the…

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