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Rooftop Grow Operation Revealed!
Green Roofs - The new way to keep Vancouver Healthy, beautiful and GREEN!...
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TommyDouglas |
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Vancouver is HOT Says Urban Designers
Viewed from the United States, Vancouver is super hot, it's almost overheating. American cities have failed to stem the flight to the suburbs and th...
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doneen |
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Independent Shops in Victoria
On my lunch break while waiting for my delicious Greek Chicken Salad Wrap, I picked up a cool brochure I wanted to share. Its called Victoria Modern...
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Clinton urges big transportation outlays
timesunion.comCOLONIE U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday called for a massive investment in America's public transportation system, on the...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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VFW Day 3: The ULTRA Collection
Christopher Bates The debut collection from Vancouver born, and Milan trained Christopher Bates was strong. Ultra strong. Influenced by living in E...
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Stylefinds |
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Quote of the Day: Can't Steve Jobs Run Everything?
Make Steve Jobs CEO of General Motors. At least their cars will look better. My new MacBook Pro, on which I am typing this post, is a much slicker...
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VFW SS09: Day 3 (Sat., Nov. 9th) Runway Report
Karen WuSeattle-based designer Karen Wu's Spring/Summer 2009 collection was a pretty treat at Vancouver Fashion Week. Her collection featured woven an...
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Stylefinds |
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VFW SS09: Day 3 (Sat., Nov. 8) Runway Report
Karen WuSeattle-based designer Karen Wu's Spring/Summer 2009 collection was a pretty treat at Vancouver Fashion Week. The collection featured woven an...
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Stylefinds |
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Geller at St. James
Whatever happens to the NPA in the upcoming election, Michael Geller deserves a vote. He's gets planning and urban design. When he goes places, h...
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VFW SS09: Day 2 (Fri. Nov. 7) Runway Report
The second day of VFW began more or less on time compared to the previous day. Anthea of Clothes Line Finds and I staked out seats in the front row so...
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Lots of Good Suff in the Straight today
Well actually I picked up a hard copy last night and was going to blog about it earlier but got distracted.To start with there is a very positive piec...
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Lots of Good Stuff in the Straight today
Well actually I picked up a hard copy last night and was going to blog about it earlier but got distracted.To start with there is a very positive piec...
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Sustainability and Tradition
This was the second Hank Dittmar lecture I attended this week - this one at the SFU downtown campus. He subtitled this oneArchitecture and Urbanism as...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Public space advocacy group releases municipal election ‘Manifesto'
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 (Vancouver)The Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN) has released a 14-page Manifesto on Public Space Policy.The document ...
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Public Transport and Neighbourhoods
Hank Dittmar at SFU Surrey Centre City November 3, 2008Hank DittmarThis was the first of a series of lectures being given this week to introduce the n...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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The Abbotsford Report
If you had told me six months ago that the City of Abbotsford wants to see exclusive tram tracks in the curb lane of its main drag (South Fraser Way) ...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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City art - Eagles, bears, and tadpoles?
I've had in recent days three things sloshing around in my brain, all of which I only realized today are all thematically connected, as they are all, ...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Water City Design: Vancouver
Since arriving in Vancouver, I've realized that we are part of a peer group of international water cities. Through waterfront design conferences whe...
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Business Not As Usual
From my Business in Vancouver column, (October 21-27, 2008; issue 991).Business not as usual: life and enterprise in a warmer worldOut in the bar, th...
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Langley Township Council Meeting Report--Monday Night, Oct. 27, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's meeting, Monday night, October 27, 2008.Peter Zeller of the Langley Mixed Slo-Pitch League presented Council wit...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Sign up with Sightline
The Sightline Institute is having an Escape to Vancouver campaign. For those of us in Vancouver, winning a trip to where you are may not be t...
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Designer Spotlight: Mandula
For Hajnalka Mandula, it's all about the details - from the turn of the century desk (found after 4 months of tireless searching) to the Victorian era...
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Stylefinds |
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A Cost Comparison of Transportation Modes
Professor Patrick M. Condon is the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments at the University of British Columbia. He has recently pr...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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New York: American Museum of Natural History
We had another early start on the 2nd last day of our 2 week vacation. The highlight of the day was going to the museum, one that I sort of missed t...
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Chow Times |
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New York: Statue of Liberty
In my trip to New York City last year, I did not manage to visit the Statue of Liberty. I like New York City so much that I knew I would return one ...
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Chow Times |
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Malls needn't wait for failure, to Re-Urbanize
One of Vancouver's most recent significant planning exercises is noteworthy not simply because of the merits of its process or its resulting planning ...
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Brent Toderian's blog |
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Anna Kosturova SS09 @ BCFW
Crochet swimwear designer Anna Kosturova could not have been a better choice to close the Spring/ Summer 2009 season for BC Fashion Week on Friday, Se...
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Stylefinds |
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Cyril Belshaw & The Wondrous Chinese Spoon
Chinese soup spoon, jap: , , chirirenge lit. fallen lotus petal usually ceramic and of a distinct Chinese soup spoon s...
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The spectral memorials that haunt our roads
MemorialThe ObserverThey started in San Francisco, spread throughout the States and are now appearing in cities worldwide ghostly white bikes adorned ...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Fashion School 101 - Life is a Carousel
This week during fashion design class I was given the daunting task of designing my first collection. Students were instructed to find an inspiration ...
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Stylefinds |
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Vancouver Sun: Joseph Wu creates origami baby beluga whale
I like Joseph Wu... he is a great origami master - now he creates a baby beluga for origami. He has brought origami into mass popular culture with...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Generation Next SS09 Review
Apologies for not getting this up sooner everyone!The third edition of Generation Next took centre stage at BCFW last Thursday. In front of a packed h...
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VIFF 2008: And The Hits ... They Don't Keep on Comin'
Sad to say, 2008 has not proved to be a banner year on the international movie scene, at least from the perspective of what moviegoers have seen prese...
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VanRamblings |
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VIFF2008: And The Hits ... They Don't Keep on Comin'
Sad to say, 2008 has not proved to be a banner year on the international movie scene, at least from the perspective of what moviegoers have seen prese...
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VanRamblings |
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Township Council Meeting Report--Monday Night, Sept. 29, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's evening meeting, Monday night, Sept. 29, 2008. Coun. Kositsky was away.Staff made a presentation on our E3 Green...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Fall leaves inspire drop in sweater hemlines and chunky cosy details
Regardless of today's high temperature, it 'tis the season to be wearing sweaters and I spoke with a twin set of designers - Anthony Castro and Scot...
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Philadelphia: City Hall Building Tour
Did you know that the tallest building in the world is in Philadelphia? No kidding I am not referring to tallest as in the Burj Dubai, or Taipei...
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Chow Times |
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Skytrain Unconference
While I think too many people today are using the Un to describe their events, this one was sent to us and I thought I'd share, because I'm nice, as...
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Beyond Robson |
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Not Your Average Sport Shoe
ART & SOLE: CONTEMPORARY SNEAKER DESIGN is an amazing book that focuses exclusively on contemporary sneaker design and culture. Celebrating the creati...
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Sorel Etrog at Buschlen Mowatt Gallery
World renown artist Sorel Etrog stopped into the Buschlen Mowatt Gallery on Thursday night.In his honor, guests sipped on Etrogtinis, perused his famo...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Graham Clarke, Peter Ladner, The MV Britannia & An Arca Swiss Head
Monday at City Hall I was introduced to a tall handsome man who smiled with his eyes. He looked familiar. He commented on my Arca Swiss ball tripod he...
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Alex Waterhouse-Hayward |
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Fashion School 101 - What a day for a daydream
Pinch me, because Fashion school in Vancouver is a fashionista's daydream come true. Helen Lefeaux has small class sizes, instructors that are success...
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Stylefinds |
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Dressed To the Nines By To the Nines
It all began when Owen Covert bought too many T-shirts. Using his love for graphic design, he put it to good use and began what would soon be known as...
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Beyond Robson |
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Underground tourism
Globe and MailA not very serious story from the travel section that claims There's no better way for travellers to tap into a city's real centre th...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Morning Brew: Crossed Wires
After delay upon delay and then a round of recounts, 4,600 voters have settled on Vision's slate of council candidates, and the Eby/Dhaliwal split may...
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Beyond Robson |
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Recent developments
Brief summary of what's new: Candidate search for the 2009 election List of pages that need improvement (feel free to edit/comment) Opportunities...
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Green Party of BC blogs |
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A Survey of Surrey
The City Program was asked to submit a paper for the Surrey Economic Summit.The development of a post-war urban region at a time of changing assumptio...
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SFU City |
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A Survey of Surrey
Here's the paper I wrote for the Surrey Economic Summit (at which Rudy Giuliani, oddly enough, got all the press):The development of a post-war urban ...
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Passerelles in Calgary
No shortage of irony here: just Get Moving B.C. is comparing us to Calgary to justify more bridges for cars, Calgary is debating the need to bu...
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Testing Vancouver's Urbanism by Pedal and Foot
I occasionally get accused locally of being too much of a booster for Vancouver's success and reputation in city-building and urban design. Althou...
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