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Apr. 21, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Upcoming Events

Building BC: The Photography of Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer Few collections capture the early development history of British Columbia…
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Apr. 20, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

June 1908: A Vancouver Postcard & the Davie Streetcar

It is early June in Vancouver in 1908. Raymond in Vancouver writes to his 19 year old friend Olive Jaffray…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Starchitect Designed Vancouver House Floods Itself: Should Radical Design Be Rethought?

Everywhere around the world the tall buildings are called marvels of engineering, providing custom work and employment for the Hollywood…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Buildings that Changed Vancouver: 2280 Cornwall

Michael Kluckner riffs off the post from Michael Gordon below to recount the story of the building that marked the…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Streeteries: We’re not going back

One confident post-pandemic prediction: the curbside patio – or streeterie – is here to stay.  Like these on Yew Street…
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Apr. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

Two Discoveries: Brandon Donnelly and Google Timelapse

Michael Geller just recommended a blog by Brandon Donnelly – “Rated by the Guardian Cities UK as one of the…
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Apr. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Last Highrise in Kitsilano

Michael Gordon* explores a misconception about Kitsilano in the Seventies – that, in a reaction to what was felt to…
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Apr. 13, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Not in My Back Yard! Marine Drive Golf Course Says No to Public Access on the Fraser River Trail Greenway

  Take a walk on the Fraser River Trail Greenway which is the perfect thing to do on a brisk…
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Apr. 12, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Cherry Blossom Time in Pandemic Vancouver

This year the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival has again shifted nimbly during the pandemic  to provide marvellous virtual offerings of…
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Apr. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

“People find uses to fill space available”

It’s true of how we use our cars: build another lane and it fills up.  People see the space meant…
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Apr. 09, 2021 / Gordon Price

The E-Bike Wave in Unexpected Places

PT: Bob Ransford, who has been working on the Southlands project in Tsawwassen for years, brings another observation on change…
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Apr. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Getting out of the ‘free parking’ hole

Daily Scot found another egregious example of what ‘free parking’ actually costs. Oh the lengths we go to for underground…
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Apr. 07, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

1987: Front Page News! Dunbar Homeowner Defies City, Uses Attic

In the 1960’s Jim Wilson bought a house in Dunbar at 3253 West 24th Avenue. Twenty years later in the…
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Apr. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Downtown Waterfront: Visionaries and Implementers – Apr 15

Thursday, April 15 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PDT Free REGISTER NOW The SFU Vancouver Lunch ‘n’ Learn series hosts a two-part virtual…

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