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Karen Sawatzky

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May 15, 2015

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More placemaking with plants

This time in Mount Pleasant.

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Both of these are near East Broadway and Fraser, just up from a bus stop on the north side of the street. A somewhat bleak streetscape around there, to which these two installations add some welcome texture and colour. But, gentrification?

Links

  • A Pattern Language: website of the book
  • BC Nonprofit Housing Association – Rental Housing Index
  • Leanne Prain
  • My Airbnb housing timeline
  • My other blog: Short-term consequences
  • My timeline of great urban thinkers
  • Price Tags – Gordon Price's blog
  • State of Vancouver – Frances Bula
  • Strathcona Community Gardens
  • The Tyee
  • Urban Studies at SFU
  • Vancouver Condo Info
  • Vancouver Public Space Network

Recent Posts

  • Candidates panel: Housing Policy in the 2018 Vancouver Civic Election – time cues for questions
  • Learnings from Housing Central 2017
  • Housing tenure statistics for the City of Vancouver, 1951 to 2011
  • Youth in care deserve better as they become adults
  • Mid-summer in Strathcona Community Garden
  • Support for two rezonings to allow for purpose-built rental units
  • In favour of purpose-built rental…
  • Highlights from the 2015 Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
  • Sidewalk history
  • More favourite West End places

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