August 2011
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Creativity and City Life
The distinguishing characteristic of the creative class is that its members engage in work whose function is to “create meaningful new forms.” The super- creative core of this new class includes scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designers, and architects, as well as the “thought leadership” of modern...
Petition to Keep Robson Square closed to Traffic
William Whyte, the godfather of public space theory, once said that ”The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.”
While most world class cities have lively, pedestrian-oriented, central street plazas with food and entertainment, Vancouver has always been curiously lacking in this department. Robson Square is the city’s only...
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Having a Picnurbia in Robson Square
Robson Square finally reopened to the public a few weeks ago (following a year of renovations). In a short window of time before the Square is split in two by the reopening of the 800 block of Robson Street to traffic, Vancouverites are finally getting a chance to enjoy this public space through a design project called Picnurbia. Picnurbia is an undulating beach landscape encouraging people to...
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This Country Life: Exploring wineries and farms in...
Ever since I moved back to Vancouver in my twenties, I get stressed out as soon as get on a highway and leave the city. Not because I don’t like other cities and suburbs outside Vancouver, but mainly because I hate driving, freeways and the badly planned communities that make driving necessary (trust me, I am not anti-suburbs. I grew up in Coquitlam…or as my friends affectionately...
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Why I love NYC (and my favorite experiences there)
I’ve travelled to a lot of cities in North America and Europe, but New York City is one of those places I could go back to year after year. Maybe it was all the movies, tv shows, art and music set in New York, or the writers, artists, actors, architects, urbanists and musicians that made their mark on the city, but New York has always struck me as a place where great artistic and cultural...
