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Jun. 07, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Cutting Trees for Quicker Development Processes, Axing Tree Retention for Development Expediency?

  Take a step back into 1996, twenty-five years ago. It was exactly this time of year when the City…
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Jun. 03, 2021 / Gordon Price

Beyond COVID: Reimagining Our City Centres 

While we don’t know what these next few months will bring, or exactly when our cities will open, there is…
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Jun. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

An Uncrossable Line in Vancouver

As with most things involving housing in Vancouver, there were probably several reasons why this motion by councillor Christine Boyle…
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Jun. 01, 2021 / Gordon Price

Excellence and Embarrassment on Burrard Inlet

The World Landscape Architecture Awards just announced the winners from over 400 international entries.  Here’s the best in the ‘Built…
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Jun. 01, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Seattle Preserved “Mid Century Modern” House For Sale: Never Out of Style

  No one can quite agree when midcentury modern architecture and furniture became popular.  Historians classify it anywhere from  1933…
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May. 31, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Public Washrooms on South Granville Street or the New Broadway Rapid Transit Connection? Nope.

Once again I ventured onto South Granville Street and once again I was greatly disappointed when I need to find…
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May. 26, 2021 / Gordon Price

Little Batteries, Little Boxes – Classifying the Micromobility Revolution

We love our little boxes.  Everything classified and in its place: cars/drivers bikes/cyclists rollerblades/skaters scooters … um, scootists? Then we…
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May. 26, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation 2021 House Tour

This June, the Heritage House Tour is in a virtual format.  In two online events, we will tour through six…
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May. 25, 2021 / VWPT Vancouver

Meet us at Viewpoint Vancouver

Viewpoint Vancouver has the news and views you want, with an eye to our region’s future. Please help make Viewpoint…
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May. 25, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Cornelia Oberlander 1921-2021 : The Icon & My Friend

There are some people that you never expect to pass, people that you know and see as the fabric of…
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May. 24, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Chinatown: Tying In Vancouver’s Early Stories, Rediscovering Our Past

Catherine Clement probably never thought she would become a gifted curator, author and historian.  Her work uncovering and putting together…
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May. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

Two-wheelers versus Two-footers in Amsterdam

 As micromobility and electrification literally pick up speed, this bikes-versus-pedestrian scenario will get played out here too. From The Guardian:…
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May. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

Little Island in the Big Apple

Another major public space – a combo of park, art and outdoor theatre – opens this weekend in New York…
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May. 21, 2021 / Gordon Price

Small Changes – One Block of Helmcken Street

Another pandemic-created space in one block of Helmcken between Mainland and Hamilton, in the heart of Yaletown: A block has…

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