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Jul. 04, 2021 / Gordon Price

Uytae Lee Video: Can we rent our way out of the housing crisis?

Another great video for Urbanarium by Uytae Lee (our best videographer on urban issues).  He tackles an aspect of the…
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Mar. 04, 2021 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Studio: Innovation for Public Washrooms – Mar 10

What do public washroom facilities look like in just, green and thoughtful cities? Access to public washrooms is a basic…
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Nov. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

Loved and Unlovely Spaces

Don’t forget to participate in the Urbanarium’s Redesign Public Spaces mapping exercise: And then follow up with the Studio on…
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Nov. 07, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium: A dialogue on Vancouver’s public spaces – Nov 21

How do we improve the delivery of extraordinary public spaces in Vancouver? In what way can we approach the study…
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May. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Forum: Life Beyond Death (in RS-1)

Michael Alexander sends highlights from the recent Urbanarium discussion, provocatively titled “The Single-Family Zone Is Dead. What Next?”   Planner/developer…
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Sep. 14, 2018 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium: Planning West Coast Cities – Sep 20

From The Urbanarium Two years ago, Urbanarium hosted Gil Kelley’s first public lecture as Vancouver’s new Chief Planner. Building on…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Gil Kelley's To-Do List

Michael Alexander wrote down observations from our new city planner, Gil Kelley, at his Urbanarium intro talk: Where do we want…
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May. 13, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Urbanarium Debate: City-wide Plan?

Have to post this for obvious reasons (spoiler alert: Meggs and Price won). . Vancouver allows a lot of wiggle…
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Apr. 27, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Make your place more walkable-free webinar

  In late 2015, the Surgeon General of the United States issued a national call to action asking every person…
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Apr. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

Notes for an Urbanarium Debate: Does Vancouver need a city-wide plan?

Does Vancouver need a city-wide plan? That was the topic of an an Oxford-style debate hosted by hosted by the Urbanarium…
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Feb. 08, 2016 / Michael Mortensen

London's Urbanarium hosted by the NLA

by Michael Mortensen, MA MCIP, RPP – a Vancouver Developer & Planner Abroad m4mortensen@gmail.com | www.plan-tlc.com   From afar in London…
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Feb. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian and James – The Urbanarium Highrise Debate

Ian Robertson and James Bligh both attended the second of the Urbanarium debates – “Be it resolved that we should…
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Jan. 30, 2016 / Gordon Price

A Meme from TEAM – Brown, Ford and Marzari call for a city plan

May Brown, Marguerite Ford and Darlene Marzari were all councillors on the TEAM councils of the 1970s – maybe the…
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Jan. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Debates: Reaction and Anticipation

The newly launched Urbanarium society (this is the third go-round) began with a double splash last night – the first…

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