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Jul. 06, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Solstice Sidewalks: The West End, Images by Rob Grant

  Viewpoint Vancouver is asking readers to send in images of their favourite verdant summer sidewalks that transform the walking…
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Jul. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Stanley Park’s Tally-Ho: Equine to Engine in 1906

The word “Tally-ho” used to refer to the cry of a huntsman chasing a fox on horseback, and also applied…
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Jul. 04, 2022 / Gordon Price

The Flag

The Pride Flag in one of its more effective renditions, set in a bamboo forest on the steps leading up…
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Jul. 04, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Overall Vancouver Plan Creates Capacity, Nixes Neighbourhood Input

It is kind of in reverse order, but after passing the Broadway Plan with a myriad of amendments Vancouver City…
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Jul. 04, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Comment Policy on Viewpoint Vancouver: Play Nice

Just a reminder about Viewpoint Vancouver’s Comment Policy. Sure you may be enraged about things and wanting to rage against…
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Jul. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Solstice Sidewalks on Charles Street, Vancouver

We asked Viewpoint Vancouver readers to send in photos of their  favourite summer sidewalk  in our summer solstice post. Artist…
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Jun. 30, 2022 / Gordon Price

Paris: A Quieter City

The clicks of wheeled luggage, a conversation behind louvred windows, music in the distance, a plane overhead – and yes,…
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Jun. 29, 2022 / Gordon Price

Paris: Favourite Flowers

So much of Paris looks the same – beautiful, majestic, harmonious but mostly of Lutetian limestone (known as Paris stone). …
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Jun. 28, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Taking it Back in Delta: Waving the Canadian Flag on Canada Day

In the dusk of the pandemic the Canadian Flag was used as a rallying cry by anti-vaxxers and  truck protesters…
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Jun. 27, 2022 / Gordon Price

Places That Matter: China Creek Bowls Skatepark

China Creek Bowls Skatepark    Join the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, the Vancouver Skateboard Coalition, and special guests in celebrating the…
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Jun. 27, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Mount Pleasant Park Board Pool Duels: City of Vancouver Says You Never Told Us

In the “You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department the City of Vancouver is deciding not to fund the…
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Jun. 27, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

A Vancouver Summer Sunday By Photographer Ken Ohrn

Ken Ohrn’s images never disappoint: In this image taken yesterday in Kitsilano he writes “Out again this morning on my…
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Jun. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

Coffee In, Coffee Out – A New Kind of WC

Our favourite Toronto urbanist, Brandon Donnelly, loves these – the Lisbon cafe kiosk: Lisbon’s cafe kiosks are so wonderful. They…
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Jun. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

David Ley on Vancouver & Broadway Plans: Tower Densification Does Not Mean Affordability

David Ley is a thoughtful and well known  urban geography professor emeritus at University of British Columbia who is just…

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