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This is shaping up to be the sustainability summit of the year.You can find out more and register here. ...

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Diane Archibald sends along this announcement of a conference in Rome at the British School that brings together a rather fascinating mix of architecture, planning and archeology. Cultural Preservation Through Architecture, Urban Planning, and Arc...

topics: architecture, planning, urban-planning

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Celebrate the Vancouver Biennale Art in Public Spaces with a day of cycling the city along the beaches, streets and park areas on a specially designed cycling route. The Vancouver Biennale in partnership with the Vancouver Area Cycling Coa...

topics: city-of-vancouver, transit

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Andrew Pask of the Vancouver Public Space Network writes:I'm currently working on a story for the Vancouver Public Space Network's bi-monthly publication. The subject is Vancouverism a key term from the city's urban design lexicon. Alth...

topics: architecture, density, design, planning, real-estate

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The first in a series of SFU City profiles, featuring instructors, lecturers and panelists in our certificate programs. Toby Barazzuol, owner of Eclipse Awards, makers of crystal recognition awards, is a young entrepreneur who tries to integrate g...

topics: downtown, downtown-east-side, sustainability

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Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward has penned a lament for public dialogue and planning in Vancouver on his blog:I believe we are in the dark about the decisions that are currently being made about the expansion of Vancouver and the respect and pre...

topics: federal-government, planning

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ARTLAND VERSUS SCULPTURE PARKChoices facing Public Art 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 1, 2009Fletcher Challenge Room, SFU Harbour Centre Charles Jencks will be giving his first public lecture in Vancouver Art Land Versus Sculpture Park - as part o...

topics: architecture, design, richmond, transit, translink

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The journal of the Alberta Association, Canadian Institute of Planners, featured the downtown redevelopment plan of Red Deer in its recent issue. There s a strong SFU connection. The plan was developed in 2008 by lead consultants Grandview Consult...

topics: design, downtown, mayor, planning, urban-design

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Stephen Ingrouille at Going Solar, based in Melbourne, Australia, publishes an excellent transportation newsletter. You can find it here.Here s an excerpt the first of two articles on urban design - from the current issue:Social Justice & Urba...

topics: climate-change, design, environment, environmental, housing

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Thanks to blogs (and search engines), it s possible to circulate material that might otherwise get lost on the dusty shelves of archives (or more likely these days, on some deteriorating hard drive). Here, for instance, is a history of SFU s Contin...

topics: burnaby, design, downtown, federal-government, kamloops