January 31, 2010 Headlines
January 31, 2010
LOCAL
B.C. slow to hop aboard green energy train [The Province]
Canada Pavilion remains mystery [The Province]
The world comes to B.C. [The Globe and Mail]
CANADA
Why are Toronto’s streets so dangerous? [The Globe and Mail]
Canada files emissions target with UN [CBC]
INTERNATIONAL
How Architecture Transformed a Violent City [Utne Reader]
January 30, 2010 Headlines
January 30, 2010
LOCAL
Vancouver’s push to ban plastic bottles won’t hold during Olympics [The Vancouver Sun]
Mayor says solution in the wings for Bloedel Conservatory [State of Vancouver]
Arthur Erickson’s executor sues society for misappropriation [The Province]
Planning director’s take on heights, views and Chinatown [State of Vancouver]
City bracing for 700 per cent increase in trash [CTV]
Public transportation key to getting around during Games [City Caucus]
Olympic makeover: It’s a wrap [The Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
Cities embrace mobile apps, ‘Gov 2.0′ [CNN]
Structural Integrity and People, Too [The New York Times]
Uptown Market goes truly uptown [Crosscut]
A View of Haiti from Liberty City [Places: Design Observer]
January 29, 2010 Headlines
January 29, 2010
LOCAL
City to update five-year-old homeless plan [The Vancouver Sun]
Game Changes [Price Tags]
Games protesters planning opening day rally [The Vancouver Courier]
Half of B.C. must be protected as hedge against climate change, report says [The Vancouver Sun]
Plantalk: Learning from Chicago [Stephen Rees's Blog]
Sustainable Housing? Charting New Frontiers in Singapore [Planning Pool]
INTERNATIONAL
Portland-Seattle Amtrak gets $598 million economic stimulus boost on Thursday [The Oregonian]
Has Sprawl Recovered Enough for the National Economy? [The New Republic]
South Africa’s mean streets get facelift ahead of World Cup [Scripps Howard News Service]
Another inconvenient truth: Why McGinn is right about seawall [Crosscut]
Steal This Design: The Power of Sharing Best Practices in Moments of Disaster [GOOD Magazine]
January 28, 2010 Headlines
January 28, 2010
LOCAL
B.C. eco groups call for 50 per cent land conservation [The Globe and Mail]
Why Vancouver will impress the world [The Globe and Mail]
Translink tax hike key to reducing Vancouver’s carbon footprint [City Caucus]
Density shouldn’t be Cambie corridor focus, prof says [The Georgia Straight]
Public spending on tickets under scrutiny [The Globe and Mail]
Doing Vancouver One Better [Price Tags]
INTERNATIONAL
Within South L.A.’s killing zone, a haven from violence [The Los Angeles Times]
Builders dream of a better Haiti [The Los Angeles Times]
The City of the Future Echoes the Past [The Wall St. Journal]
Digital video runs a screen on the cityscape [The Los Angeles Times]
Work begins on the Urbanists Guide to Vancouver
January 28, 2010
The suggestions, ideas and insights are in. Now the re:place team is getting to work to compile the Urbanists Guide to Vancouver.
By the re:place team
January 27, 2010 Headlines
January 27, 2010
LOCAL
Vision Vancouver ‘can’t support’ red tent campaign [The Hook]
Tents for the homeless is dangerous and wrong [The Vancouver Sun]
Council votes to protect spectacular views [The Vancouver Sun]
B.C. on the cutting edge of urban agriculture [The Vancouver Sun]
Add 1 part offices, 1 part condos; try to mix well [The Globe and Mail]
CANADA
Ken Greenberg on the future of urban planning [Price Tags]
INTERNATIONAL
D.C. art activists see old trolley station as buried treasure [The Washington Post]
Extreme Architecture: Building for Challenging Environments
January 26, 2010
“The fascination of architecture in extreme environments is that it is so demanding technically, yet offers so much potential… the greatest constraint usually comes from the need not to spoil the natural environment, and that demands more judgment than the need to match the brickwork of an adjoining building.”
- From the book’s introduction
Edited by Ruth Slavid - Laurence King Publishing (2009)
Reviewed by Sean Ruthen
Release: Games Architecture Exhibition Celebrates Winning Design
January 26, 2010
By the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
Vancouver - This February, the Architectural Institute of British Columbia will feature a special gallery exhibit that showcases the involvement of British Columbia architects in bringing the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to life. The exhibit, titled BienVenue: 2010 Games Architecture, will offer a unique behind-the-scenes glimpse of the design process involved in creating games-related venues.
January 26, 2010 Headlines
January 26, 2010
LOCAL
Housing ’severely unaffordable’ [The Province]
The incredible shrinking condo [The Globe and Mail]
Controversial 16th & Dunbar project breaks ground [City Caucus]
Housing activists plan Olympic ‘red tent’ campaign [CBC]
Log structure impeding free speech at the VAG? [The Hook]
Arthur Erickson’s UBC gem gets rebranded [The Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
Amanda Levete: why architects know best [Building]
Cities get rebuilt more often than you think [Grist]
Q&A: Ken Greenberg on the Future of Urban Planning [Metropolis Magazine]
Urban Umbrellas to Replace NYC Sidewalk Sheds [Inhabitat]
Drawing lines at the seawall [Crosscut]
Reducing barriers to renewable energy [Planning Pool]
A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1953
January 25, 2010
An interurban car in 1953. Photo by Walter Edwin Frost. Item # CVA 447-1664.
The first local TV station broadcast, the end of an era for interurban travellers, two aviation records and a shocking Stanley Park murder were just a few of the fascinating events that took place in Vancouver in 1953.
By Chuck Davis, The History of Vancouver
Photos courtesy of Vancouver Archives
