May 25

CBC: Toronto area housing market has a 'missing middle,' new report says

From CBC's MAy 23rd article: 

Research on housing affordability suggests GTHA lacks mid-level housing like 'townhouses, duplexes, triplexes'

Call it the tale of Toronto's two housing markets: on one side are the million-dollar-plus single-detached homes, and on the other, those tiny boxes in the sky.

What's missing, is everything in the middle.

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May 13

Career Opportunity: Urban Designer at University of British Columbia C+CP

UBC is a leader in a global network of post-secondary institutions that have turned their campuses into living laboratories for sustainable behaviour, infrastructure and community. At UBC, sustainability means simultaneous improvements in human and environmental wellbeing, not just reductions in damage or harm. The University is embedding this regenerative sustainability throughout teaching, learning, research, partnerships, operations and infrastructure, and the UBC community.

 

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Urban Design
UBC
Job opportunity

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Mar 29

ECODESIGN FOR CITIES AND SUBURBS

A New Free Internet Course Offered on edX
by the University of British Columbia

Architects, urban planners, real-estate developers, landscape architects, and anyone else who is interested in the future of cities – especially students in all these disciplines – should check out this free, open course, taught by Larry Beasley, the former planning director of Vancouver, who is the Distinguished Professor of Practice at the University of British Columbia, and Jonathan Barnett, a noted authority on urban design from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Mar 26

Harvard to offer free online architecture course

The Harvard Graduate School of Design is launching a web-based course that offers architectural education at no cost.

The Architectural Imagination course will allow students to "learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — from a study of history's important buildings", according to the website.

Spread over 10 modules, the programme is intended to be taken over the same number of weeks.

The first part will focus on form and history, the second on technology, and the third on representation and context.

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Education
Architecture

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Feb 20

hindsight - a periodical, pictorial review of our urban past

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Jan 3

The Vancouver Special Competition

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archives
Heritage
competition

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Nov 3

Roundhouse Interview with Urbanarium on urbanism

Housing Panel Dale McClanaghan and Jim O'Dea sits down with Kirk and Scot Hein from Urbanarium to look at urbanism and intelligent city building:

Listen Here

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Oct 14

Featured Book: Power at Ground Zero

Power at Ground Zero

Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan

Lynne B. Sagalyn

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Oct 7

In Memory of Bing Thom

The Urbanarium Society is deeply saddened by the loss of Bing Thom who was a tremendous talent, and a thoughtful voice, for Canada’s architecture and place making community. He has left a profound and lasting legacy for our country and region including such seminal local works as UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia, Surrey City Centre Library, Aberdeen Centre in Richmond and the Vancouver’s Sunset Community Centre.

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Apr 18

Does Vancouver need a new city-wide plan?

The City of Vancouver has not had a comprehensive City-wide plan to guide the development process since the 1990s. We want to open up the discussion and find out whether citizens believe that this is a worthwhile process, and if so, what it should look like.

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