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Apr. 03, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

The Sustenance Anthology

While transportation is a big part of our lives, food is maybe bigger.  Here’s Vancouver’s Poet Laureate calling for submissions of…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation – Vancouver Special Tour – Apr 22

  The Vancouver Special has become a retro design icon of Vancouver’s architectural heritage. Once unpopular for their prolific reproduction…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Paris, Road Closures, Traffic Evaporation and the Braess Paradox

  The website h2020 has a very interesting examination of “traffic evaporation”-what happens to all that traffic when you close urban…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Van Housing Sales Slow Down- Housing Prices Still High.

As reported in Business In Vancouver by Patrick Blennerhasset, despite what you are hearing about housing sales slowing, prices being asked…
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Mar. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Movie of the Missing Middle

Christopher Cheung in The Tyee has prepared a  ten minute video featuring “Patrick Condon, chair of the urban design program at…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Aging, Design and the City and Why This Matters

By 2030, one-quarter of all Canadians will be over 65 years of age, which will have profound impacts on Canadian…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Vancouver Special Space? Named After Architectural Visionary, Bing Thom

Ralph Segal was the senior architect and development planner for the Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. He is…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Kits Beach

A lovely Saturday afternoon.…
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Mar. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Quote: Don Luxton on Change

Don Luxton led off a panel discussion at SFU Woodward’s last night, hosted by Heritage Vancouver, with an explanation of The…
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Mar. 23, 2017 / Gordon Price

Different Shades of Green

From the world Economic Forum:  …
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Larry Beasley and Metro Vancouver's Potential Third Housing Sector

Both Peter Ladner in Business in Vancouver  and columnist Daphne Bramham in the Vancouver Sun  have featured comments made by Larry…
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 2 – Lower Burrard Street

The City took the opportunity, at the time it was doing major water-and-sewer pipe upgrades under the street, to reconfigure Burrard…
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Mar. 20, 2017 / Gordon Price

Recent Developments 1 – Burrard Bridge, West Side

Sun on a Sunday, warmth in the air, a new project to explore – the finally finished sidewalk, bike lane…
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Mar. 16, 2017 / Gordon Price

Panel: The Future of Vancouver Heritage – Mar 23

Under the Heritage Action Plan of 2015, development commenced on a new thematic framework in order to update the Vancouver…

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