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Feeling Disconnected?

Life in the urban context is often described as lacking a sense of community; it’s not uncommon for people who live in cities to feel disconnected from the people who live right next door. City...

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Do You Make Time to Stop & Smell the Roses?

At times the pace of technology, and the pace at which it changes our world can be dizzying; we take for granted or miss the short lived graduations of change we observe on a daily basis. But artists,...

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York Theatre on Cover of Georgia Straight

After 25 years of advocacy, to the great relief of Tom Durrie and other arts activists, the York Theatre is finally saved from the threat of demolition. The Georgia Straight covers the story as an Arts...

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Pop-portunity for culture building

As empty spaces in the urban context become more rare and highly valued, any leftover, awkward, and in-between spaces – Diamonds in the Rough – are being woven back into the larger urban fabric in a...

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In Search of the Perfect Chair

Can we apply genetic engineering to inanimate objects? Designer Jan Habraken and his team at Formnation have developed an innovative application of genetics to product design. Utilizing the same...

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Will You “Turn Off to Turn On” for Earth Hour?

Earth Hour is approaching, with millions of participants preparing to power down in support of a more sustainable future. Since the 2007 inaugural Earth Hour in Sydney Australia, the annual event has...

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Ethnic Enclaves

Canada’s cities are diverse places thanks in large part to immigrants that have settled here and built homes, businesses and communities. Their impact can be measured not only in economic growth and...

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Learning from the Ephemeral City

Summer is upon us and we’re anticipating the many large spectacles that temporarily enliven Vancouver and bring us together in warmer months to experience performances, fireworks, parades, art...

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Woodward’s Welcomes New Arts Groups

Four not-for-profit arts organizations will be moving into the city-owned cultural amenity space in the Woodward’s building, located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. City Council unanimously...

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Fashion-Forward Technology

As it’s October 31st, a day synonymous in North America with creative dressing, it seemed fitting to look at wearable innovations. This year, the makers of wearable technology have turned their sights...

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Recycled Amusement

Ugandan eco-artist Ruganzu Bruno Tusingwire doesn’t play around when it comes to play. The winner of TED’s first City 2.0 Award for 2012, a prize designed to encourage innovation in cities, is using...

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Learn from the Poet Laureate

Evelyn Lau Offers Free Consultation to Poets Are you an emerging poet looking for some advice from a seasoned pro? Evelyn Lau, Vancouver’s third Poet Laureate, will be hosting one-to-one manuscript...

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Charles Eames: Design Pioneer

“If you examine this furniture, you will find sincerity, honesty, conviction, affection, imagination, and humor. You will not grasp how this furniture came into being or what it really means unless you...

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Billboard-Free City

In 2006, Gilberto Kassab, mayor of São Paulo, Brazil, passed the “Clean City Law.” Citing growing concerns about rampant pollution in his city, Kassab decided enough was enough. But this was no...

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Boosting Literacy Awareness

Kafka in Transit Can Franz Kafka’s short story “The Bridge” turn subway riders in Mexico City into avid readers? That’s the hope of a new literacy awareness campaign from Librerías Gandhi, one of...

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Urban Myth

Fiction’s Most Fascinating Cities Some of the most fantastic places only exist within the pages of books, the frames of films, the panels of comics, even the lyrics of songs. You can’t buy a plane...

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Generosity-Based Publishing

Concord Free Press Gives Their Books Away “Free their books and their minds will follow,” that’s the motto of small publishing house Concord Free Press and it’s exactly what they do: give books away...

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Resort City?

In our week in Rome, we had lunch with a friend of a friend, an Italian who works in government. He’s not originally from Rome, but has been posted there for the past two years. His assessment of Rome:...

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Work Ethics in a Developing British Columbia

Inventing the Lazy Indian One of the reasons that Aboriginals were considered to be shirkers is that they did not have to put up with low wages and harsh working conditions. They had alternative, more...

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