16 Saturday Jun 2018
Michael Alexander, one of Gordon Price’s travel partners on the east Asian urbanist study sojourn, took this photograph last month.
A new mural at 20 West Hastings, next to the Hastings Urban Farm and site of new housing. In many ways, compared to what we’ve seen of Hong Kong and Tokyo, this seems very Vancouver, to the core.
15 Friday Jun 2018
Posted in Art & Culture, Events, History & Heritage, Policy & Planning, Urbanism
The Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) has a special summer webinar on the day before National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21st:
Wednesday, June 20th
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Registration deadline: 4:00 pm Tuesday June 19, 2018.
Cost:
PIBC Member $39; PIBC Member Group $99
Non-Member $59; Non-Member Group $139
(Prices do not include GST.)
07 Thursday Jun 2018
It was interesting timing; the May 14th announcement by Ian Campbell, Hereditary Chief of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), that he would seek the Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate nomination, and the following announcement.
Via GlobeNewsWire:
On May 15, 2018, City of Vancouver Council unanimously approved the Policy Statement for the Heather Street Lands. The Policy Statement sets direction for how the land will be used, providing 2,000 homes in the growing Cambie Corridor, including 400 units of affordable housing.
Here’s where the cultural dilemma enters the picture. Read on >>
05 Tuesday Jun 2018
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Courtesy of Judy Bishop, a long-time Vancouver area technology marketing executive, and now apparently another one of those maddening people with “the best job in the world” (our take, anyways — she takes photographs for Getty Images).
Bishop recently found a special perspective on a building that, if you happen to spend any time in the wind channel tucked between the West End and Coal Harbour, you’ve seen a million times…but maybe you’ve never seen it like this. Read on >>
01 Friday Jun 2018
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Sadly, this may be the last in the series of panoramic retrospectives of Vancouver for a while.
Seeing the changes in our skylines, sightlines and view corridors over the years —via photographs from 1978, 2003, and 2018, by ‘Changing Vancouver‘ blog co-author Andy Coupland — has been somewhat startling.
Did we really have that many warehouses and heavy industry on now-coveted waterfront residential and recreational property? Was the world really that brown? Read on >>
31 Thursday May 2018
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More retrospective eye candy from ‘Changing Vancouver‘ blog co-author Andy Coupland; this time, the view from the Georgia Viaduct, looking south, from 1978, 2003, and earlier this month:
Again, the eastbound viaduct will also soon retire, eliminating this perspective from future rounds. Unless, of course, Andy can finagle his way into one of the towers clustered in the area.
Which brings us to the “alt take” from this series. Read on >>
30 Wednesday May 2018
Posted in History & Heritage
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Since 2001, Heritage Vancouver has published this well-regarded annual Top10 list on historical sites facing threats, challenges, or simply the need for awareness and understanding.
Climb aboard a Transit Museum Society (TRAMS) historic bus for an exclusive guided tour of Heritage Vancouver’s Top10 sites for 2018.
You’ll see and hear first hand about these Top 10 sites and their associated issues, while riding along on a historic bus around Vancouver.
Saturday June 9
1 – 5 pm
Meet in front of the Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street at Vanier Park
Tickets: $40; Heritage Vancouver Members: $30
29 Tuesday May 2018
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From About Here founder Uytae Lee — part of the team at Halifax-based PLANifax — comes the following video, entitled “Why are we getting rid of a highway in Vancouver?”.
It’s a cogent and thorough backgrounder on Vancouver’s viaduct teardown project.
It runs 5:28. It’s light, heavy, serious and fun at the same time. And it’s worth every second.
Read on >>
26 Saturday May 2018
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The second in a short series of panoramic retrospectives from Vancouver’s youth, courtesy of ‘Changing Vancouver’ blog co-author Andy Coupland.
As he noted, there likely won’t be a fourth photo for this retrospective, although perhaps the perspective from the new bike/ped bridge will work…
1978 photographer Trish French.
23 Wednesday May 2018
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On Monday, we posted about the ‘Changing Vancouver’ blog by John Atkin and Andy Coupland.
Coincidentally, Andy sent along these panorama shots of the east end of False Creek, taken from a vantage point on the old and new Cambie Bridges — in 1978, 2003, and 2017.
Definitely worth clicking to enlarge. More panoramas to come.