Feature Article
The Miss Guides Part II
Since last summer, Vancouver has been home to three performance artists who call themselves The Miss Guides - Natalie, Katherine, and Sean, also known as Dorian, anna swede, and Kidskid – have been using the downtown streets of Vancouver as their canvas, with the city’s storeys and their stories as their inspiration. Not to be confused with other walking tours, architectural or otherwise, regularly put on by the likes of the Gastown Business Improvement Society and Architecture Institute of B.C., a walk with The Miss Guides is a strolling theatre, an insightful performance of wit and revelation, with surprises for both the tourist and local alike.
Review by Sean Ruthen, re:place magazine Read the story »
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The Image and the Region: Making Mega City Regions Visible!
Mapping and data analysis are taken to a new level in this compilation of essays uncovering large scale urban mega-regions.
Edited by: Alain Thierstein, Agnes Forster (Lars Müller Publishers, 2008)
Reviewed by: Rebecca Esau, re:place magazine
TheTransitFan
Modern streetcars debut in Vancouver
The unloading of the new Bombardier Flexity streetcar arriving from Brussels. Photo by TheTransitFan
It’s been a long wait. Sixty-five years in fact, since Vancouver last experienced the thrill of seeing brand-new streetcars travel our streets. The wait ended today, and I wouldn’t have missed it.
By TheTransitFan, re:place magazine
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Where are the kids? - Epilogue
The final piece of a five-part series looking at the spatial distribution of children throughout Vancouver.
By Erick Villagomez, re:place magazine
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March 10, 2010 Headlines
LOCAL
City pays five times land’s value to preserve it [Globe and Mail]
Tofino set to ban Starbucks, Tim Hortons and McDonalds [Vancouver Sun]
Minorities to become new majority in Metro Vancouver [The Province]
CANADA
TTC learning from Philly’s transit revival [Toronto Star]
INTERNATIONAL
IBM Working on a Cure for Gridlock Headaches [Fast Company]
The Secret Language of Signs [Slate]
Critical Beats [Places: Design Observer]
March 9, 2010 Headlines
LOCAL
Vancouver’s Mr. Happy takes to national stage [The Globe and Mail]
The pollution problem we can’t save for a rainy day [The Globe and Mail]
Evergreen line to be on time, Premier says [The Globe and Mail]
Green solutions come from many directions [The Vancouver Sun]
Premier’s office added $2 billion to Olympic impact estimate [The Hook]
A Complicated Kindness [Vancouver Magazine]
Sustaining Olympic buzz will take work, experts say [CTV]
CANADA
Millions sought for Ontario cycling [The Toronto Star]
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