By
Jonathon Narvey
| Image:
Flickr / Kennymatic |
Published: April 26, 2010
New book and seminar series considers long-term solutions to food supply, transportation, energy and livability in Vancouver
By
Jonathon Narvey
| Image:
Flickr / tiddlywinker |
Published: April 09, 2010
Do Commercial Drive residents need to sacrifice some elements of livability in order to preserve the neighbourhood’s best features? Maybe.
By
Beata Kozma & Hilary Henegar
| Image:
City of Vancouver on YouTube |
Published: February 22, 2010
SNAP series the latest in City of Vancouver's efforts to use social media to tell its own story
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is YouTubing the world about what’s happening in Vancouver during the Winter Olympics through a new series of online videos called SNAP: 2010, Stories from Vancouver's Games.
By
Hilary Henegar
| Image:
Flickr / Patrick Doheny |
Published: February 17, 2010
Vancouver's Olympic Village achieves LEED Platinum certification, making it North America's greenest neighbourhood
By Jonathon Narvey
| Image: Jonathon Narvey |
Published: February 11, 2010
Meet April Smith, one of the lucky Downtown Eastsiders living in the new Woodward's building's non-market housing units
By
Jonathon Narvey
| Image:
Flickr / Jennie Faber |
Published: February 04, 2010
What does the new Woodward's building mean for the Downtown Eastside, and what lessons are there for other down-and-out heritage sites?
By
Leah Nielsen
| Image:
Flickr / Quayside Village |
Published: November 17, 2009
The new "old fashioned neighbourhood" encourages both social interaction and individual space
By
Stephen Rees for Granville Online
| Image:
iStock / SteveRosset |
Published: September 10, 2009
Employment in downtown Vancouver is steadily declining
The question of the role of downtown Vancouver, and the other regional town centres, in attracting employment has been discussed extensively by Metro Vancouver (formerly the GVRD). Most of what I wrote in the post, "
Downtown Vancouver's condo ghetto increases car use," [which received several responses seeking more info] was a digest of the discussions that took place between strategic planning staff at the GVRD and Translink over several years. However there is a useful data set in this
review of employment locations and issues (PDF).
By
Stephen Rees for Granville Online
| Image:
iStock / mvp64 |
Published: September 04, 2009
Why the current financial crisis is impacting the low-density suburb far harder than inner cities
By
Stephen Rees for Granville Online
| Image:
Flickr / footloosiety |
Published: August 28, 2009
Two leaders in urban design see humans as social animals who enjoy nothing more than being around each other, observing and casually interacting
