Blog Posts tagged: wendee lang
A Canadian take on parks: Park People’s Heart of the City conference
By Wendee Lang, VPSN Open Spaces Last month featured a new type of event: the Heart of the City conference, Canada’s first national conference on urban parks. Organized by Toronto’s Park People, the event brought together advocates from across 10... Continue reading »
Vancouver’s new gender equity strategy: Weigh in now and on April 19
by Wendee Lang, VPSN Open Spaces For those interested in Vancouver’s role in promoting gender equality, now is the time to chime in. Working with the Women’s Advisory Committee, City staff have recently launched a review of the 2005 Gender... Continue reading »
Digging deeper: Unearthing the facts of BC Hydro’s Seed initiative
By Wendee Lang, VPSN Open Spaces You may have heard of the BC Hydro Seed project, which proposed to redesign and enhance three open spaces in downtown Vancouver, in exchange for the opportunity to build underground substations. Heralded as innovative... Continue reading »
Eastside Culture Crawl: A Recap
by Wendee Lang Walking through the downtown eastside, past nondescript facades, nosy Vancouverites cannot help but be overwhelmed with curiosity. What exactly goes on behind the doors of the city’s oldest homes and warehouses? Once a year, the Eastside Culture Crawl... Continue reading »
Urban Acupuncture: A focus on the Pigeon Park Street Market
by Wendee Lang From street hawkers to pop-up parks, from the New York High Line to Barcelona’s La Boqueria, urban acupuncture materializes in many different ways. Its principle, however, remains static in that it is seeks to re-energize communities through small-scale... Continue reading »