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Call for Contributions – PubliCity 3 – Play and Public Space
The next issue of PubliCity will be produced in spring 2010. For this edition, we’ll be looking at the connection between ‘play’ and public space. The idea of ‘play’ can be understood in all sorts of different ways and we’re... Continue reading »
The New Canada Line Culture: more urban, more engaged.
Thanks in part to the efforts of what I call the new “Canada Line Culture”, we are now more consciously participating on the urban stage. Our game face is on, and it’s amazing what is happening!... Continue reading »
VPSN Surveillance Map
With the Olympic Games in full swing, we’ve been getting a lot of requests for the map we did of all the surveillance cameras (CCTV) in the Downtown and Downtown Eastside neighbourhoods. The good news is that this map is... Continue reading »
NY Times asks: “where’s the square?”
A couple of eagle eyed VPSN members alerted us to the recent travel article in the February 14, 2010 edition of the New York Times. Blame the great outdoors, but Vancouver lacks a central square — a place for citizens... Continue reading »
Can you give me an example of the words in your head and how they might be used while in Canada?
The following poem was read by Brad Cran (City of Vancouver Poet Laureate) at the city’s new tent village — which was set up yesterday afternoon on a vacant lot at Hastings and Abbott Street, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The... Continue reading »