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Liveable Laneways
(in the laneway between Main and Quebec, from Broadway north to 7th Ave.)
Saturday Sept. 25th
A street festival complete with musicians, a skatepark courtesy of Antisocial Skateboarding Shop, local restaurants, and an assortment of merchants, info booths and artists, including Pedestrian City and the Vancouver Public Space Network.
Come out! Support this great neighbourhood initiative and contribute to the Green Map project !
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(1965 Main St. Vancouver)
Monday, 22 February 2010, 2pm
FRAGMENTED GEOGRAPHIES
Presented by Natalie Ethier
Fragmented Geographies will explore psychogeography, dérive/drift,
and the right to the city to raise questions around contested spaces,
constructed landscapes and temporal infrastructure created by and for
Vancouver 2010. Participants will be invited to create memory maps of
the city, tracing their routes through it to show how mobility is
affected by the current global spectacle. At the end, instructions on
how to conduct a dérive through the city will be given.
A geographer and advocate for pedestrian-scale development, NATALIE
ETHIER is interested in the connections between urban form, perception,
and experience of place, and how these influence movement through
cities. With her project Pedestrian City
she encourages people to share memory maps as a way to make connections
between the places and interactions they experience in a neighbourhood;
things they've noticed but maybe never put together in the same mental
space.
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October 29, 2010
NEWS: New report imagines a greener Vancouver
The City of Vancouver released its Greenest City Action Team’s 10-year
plan last week in a report titled Vancouver 2020: A Bright Green Future.
Part of the report, titled “Green Mobility,” discusses the goal of
creating a Vancouver in which, by 2020, more than half of trips within
the city are carried out on foot, bicycle or public transit . “Great
green cities are walkable cities,” reads the report. “Walking is the
most environmentally sustainable form of transportation, creating no
emissions, no noise, and requiring the least amount of infrastructure.
Pedestrian City, a pedestrian advocacy initiative founded by Natalie
Ethier, as well as the Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN), have
started to explore these and other goals through “green mapping
sessions,” the first of which was held last Thursday (Oct. 22) in Mount
Pleasant. more...
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