City Debate #7: THE VACANCY TAX WILL WORK (VIDEO)
Vancouver just enacted a 1 per cent tax on empty homes. Will that make housing more affordable or fail to do so while creating new problems?
City Debate #6: VANCOUVER REPELS CREATIVE PEOPLE (VIDEO)
Vancouver has been a creative hotbed for environmentalism, urban design, art and social policies – but is that coming to a halt due to high prices and other factors?
Meet Vancouver's New Chief Planner (VIDEO)
Welcome to Vancouver’s new Chief Planner!
Gil Kelley is the City of Vancouver’s new General Manager of Planning, Urban Design, and Sustainability. Please join the Urbanarium in welcoming him to his new role.
Gil will speak on: West Coast Cities: On the Leading Edge of Change
Gil’s talk will be followed by a Q and A and a reception in the Playhouse lobby:
5.30 Doors Open/Check-in
5.30 - 6.30 Networking and No Host Bar
6.30 - 8.00 Talk and Q+A
8.00 - 9.00 Reception
City Debate #21: SHARE THE LOAD OR CUT THE BLOAT: Dealing with Ballooning Development Fees
Should new sources of funding be identified to pay for infrastructure and amenities? Or should we reduce our expectations for what services we expect in our cities?
City Debate #20: INVEST OR RETREAT? GRANVILLE ISLAND + SEA LEVEL RISE
20th Edition Celebration at Waterfront Theatre!
North America's most successful public market is at high risk to be underwater by 2100. Do we invest in new infrastructure to keep it above sea level? Or do we retreat?
This event has been approved by the AIBC or 2.5 Core Learning Units.
CCA Screening and Panel: To Build Law
Much of what we build (and how we build it) is actually shaped by laws and public policy. From building codes to zoning and heritage by-laws, these frameworks have an enormous impact on what gets built and what is lost along the way. Buildings are held as assets, torn down, and redeveloped, with limited consideration of community and environmental impacts. Evidently, a systemic shift in the way we build and value our built environment is urgently needed.
From Street to Plaza with Modular Timber Technologies
We know it’s so important to have parks and open space to meet our friends, relax, play, and have room for other creatures like plants and animals. But public space in cities is limited - particularly in older, built up areas. One way that cities are approaching this challenge is by transforming streets into plazas. In Vancouver, to help keep these new plazas beautiful, agreements are made with local groups or businesses to maintain them.
An Intracity Canal for Vancouver
With limited budgets and the large scale of sea-level rise challenges facing cities, it’s time to think about design solutions that address many problems at once. Streets provide an amazing opportunity for this because they are owned by cities (which makes it easier to implement changes), and they are significant public spaces for community use (in Vancouver, about 30% of land are streets).
Decoding Density in VR: Building Density In a Climate Emergency
Decoding Density in VR: Building Density in a Climate Emergency was 4 weeks of Ethos Lab mixed reality camps exploring concepts of building housing and food density through combining urban planning and architectural practice and live drawings with the powers of the Unity game engine.