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Every year the SFU City Program presents a speaker in urban design, sponsored by VIA Architecture. Given that it's the firm's 20th anniversary (some will remember it as Baker, McGarva, Hart) and that they have offices in both Vancouver and Seat...

topics: architecture, councillor, design, urban-design

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A free lecture as part of the Shifting Gears series:Walking Around the World: Innovation and inspiration for Designing, Engineering and Planning our CitiesJune 8, 7 pmDr. Rodney Tolley with Bronwen Thornton, Walk 21Note: the lecture takes place at ...

topics: climate-change, planning, pollution

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Congratulations to Norm Connolly, one of our cohort members in the Sustainable Community Development Certificate program.Community Energy Association Engages Norm Connolly as Executive Director The Community Energy Association (CEA) is pleased to a...

topics: design, environmental, granville-island, housing, planning

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Larry Beasley, Vancouver s previous planning director, gave a lyrical address for the Munro Lecture in the Segal Centre at SFU last night. And not just with words. Images flowed with his remarks, changing in mid-sentence, always illustrating...

topics: planning, transportation

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Global Games and Local Legacies: Understanding Olympics Outcomes in Host CitiesThe Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University invites scholars and practitioners from all fields to submit paper proposals for a symposium entitled Global Game...

topics: olympics, surrey

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Dr. Jim Sallis, the head of Active Living Research (ALR) at San Diego State University, gave a City Program lecture a few years ago. His research unit has worked hard over the years to establish the link between land use and physical activity....

topics: environmental, strike

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Who in the previous generation would have thought that love might become a prime force in the economy of cities? Now we know that people will only come to a city and stay in a city if they feel real affection for it and make it their place.L...

topics: architecture, burnaby, design, planning, sustainability

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Brent Toderian, the Vancouver s Director of Planning, blogs on Planetizen, often about Vancouver, always with insight.In his most recent post, he talks about FormShift, the competition sponsored by the City and the Architectural Institute of B.C. W...

topics: architecture, density, design, environment, environmental

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For some time now, we at the City Program have been looking for an image that captures our place in the city. Here in Harbour Centre at 515 West Hastings, we re at the centre of an urban campus: all the learning institutions housed in dozens of bu...

topics: architecture, environment, transportation

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Here s a design competition in the Bay Area with a lot of local relevance for the Vancouver region, aimed at soliciting ideas that respond to sea level rise.The goal of the competition is to focus on estuaries similar to San Francisco Bay.Details he...