A short, point-of-view documentary on how a family of four can get from point A to point B by foot, bike, or public transit.
Director, Second Camera, Editor: Brigitte Patenaude
Producer, Transportation: Ian Deichen
Camera, Editor: Devon Mussett
Follow their blog at velofamilydiaries.blogspot.ca.
Clouds Over Water: BC Timescapes from Warmland Films on Vimeo.
Submission into the Canadian Tourism Commission “35 Million Directors” Contest.
Directed by Christopher Scott Avery
Assisted by Alicia Margetts & David Avery
Edited by Alex van Nieuwkuyk
Music by Fernando Franco
As seen on Spacing Vancouver:
Note: if the “HD” button hasn’t defaulted to blue, you’ll need to click to turn it on. It’s worth it.
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In 2010, Vancouver took a leap forward in cycling by constructing the now-permanent Dunsmuir and Hornby separated bike lanes, riding out media bias and a few disgruntled business owners. After a first effort in 2011, Spacing Vancouver has taken the opportunity to hit the lanes once again, this time picking up on some differences that time has brought us.
At the beginning, the lanes and their vegetated traffic buffers served the existing ridership – those decked-out in “cycling” gear, the middle-aged commuters, the road racers. But as the months passed, Vancouverites have discovered downtown has become more friendly and the ridership has diversified remarkably. The slow and steady are taking to the streets as more and more riders use the lanes and wear whatever clothing they please during their outings.
As the ridership has evolved, so too have the lanes: 2012′s freshly laid green paint at intersections and areas of conflict is in turn helping attract those women (and children) riders. The bright green extends beyond downtown, showing up by Stanley Park and along the Central Valley Greenway. It re-appears on the other side of the Burrard Bridge at Cornwall, but the lanes drop quickly at Cypress. People travelling by bike to Kits Beach and beyond are left to fend for themselves among fast moving traffic; however, in time riders hope for more green paint to guide them to the next protected refuge.
The success can be largely attributed to three simple ingredients to designing for an all ages bicycle route: once you lay down the paint and planters, the people will come. It starts with the bright greens of the grasses, thermoplast, and goretex – but builds quickly into a rainbow of colours.
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Kathleen Corey likes tiny apartments over shops, hikes with panoramic city views, and flowing urban landscapes. While in the San Francisco Bay Area, she led design processes for the India Basin community farm and Wilkie Creek outdoor classroom. Kathleen completed the Urban Design certificate at SFU’s City Program and is working toward her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph.
Deck Two’s Global City is an ambitious hand-drawn mural that aims to encompass the world—or at least its architecture—into a single cityscape.
Via Architizer.
On November 28, 2011, City of Vancouver Planning Director, Brent Toderian, spoke to the members of the Urban Development Institute on issues relating to affordability, city planning, CACs, architecture and housing supply:
You can follow along with the slides below (or download them for future reference):
Brent Toderian’s Presentation UDI Final
This. Is. Amazing. I love cities and I love skiing. I never thought that the two could mix until I saw this trailer. Whether you can it street skiing, ski parkour, or ski porn it is simply incredible. And not only the skiing, but the cinematography and soundtrack as well. The segment is from All.I.Can by Sherpas Cinema.
Location: Trail, Rossland, and Nelson, BC.
Music: Dance Yrself Clean, by LCD Soundsystem.
Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.
Watching this video reminded me of the powerful connection between street art and neighborhood placemaking. It gave me all sorts of ideas on how a renewed focus of street art could help continue transform both Vancouver’s and Phoenix’s alleyways.
To be sure a lot of work has already been along these lines in both cities (notably Calle 16 in Phoenix), but it is always good to be pushed forward by outside examples.
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD is a Short-Form Docu-series exploring the power of Public Art and innovation to uplift and revitalize urban communities. The Pilot Season revolves around the Arts District of Wynwood Miami, featuring an array of internationally acclaimed and locally respected Street Artists, Graffiti Writers and Muralists.
In 2009, Urban Visionary and Placemaker Tony Goldman partnered with Jeffrey Deitch (Deitch Projects Soho and now director of MoCa Los Angeles) to create the Wynwood Walls.What began with a series of parking lots, loading docks, and drab rundown factory buildings, became a curation of high caliber murals from Futura, Shepard Fairey, OS Gemeos, Kenny Scharf and others. The Walls opened for Art Basel 2009, and now two years later the collection has expanded to include over thirty artists from around the world, becoming a “Town Center” in a district that has grown into one of the largest concentrations of commissioned murals in the World.
This year Artists, many of whom have not shown work in the United States before, were selected by Tony Goldman, Goldman Projects Arts Manager Meghan Coleman and Art Consultant Medvin Sobio of the Visual Arts Collective Viejas Del Mercado. 33third Los Angeles, Mid City Arts, and Montana Cans worked together to provide paint for the project’s ambitious expansion.
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD explores a unique juncture in history as a new community emerges and evolves. A progressive urban revitalization campaign is examined in the first person, using this year’s new Artists and their commissions as a lens to explore a neighborhood in transition. The Series is framed by colorful overview and concluding episodes, providing the scope of past, present and future. Each episode is accented by images from legendary Documentary Photographer Martha Cooper, who has been capturing The Walls since they began in 2009. Her Photographs will also appear in a Special Edition Art Book “The Wynwood Walls and Doors” set to be released at Art
Basel 2011.For more information on the artists and history of the Wynwood Walls visit thewynwoodwalls.com
Episodes of HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD will digitally premiere for free in the weeks leading up to Art Basel. You are invited and encouraged to share, blog, “like” tweet and tumble this content freely and enthusiastically. Your interest and support is deeply appreciated. To learn more and to view the episodes as they are released, please visit the official site HCTN.tv and the VIMEO PAGE, or contact us directly at INFO@hctn.tv
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Directed By: Jenner Furst
Produced By: Ben Solomon
Supervising Producers: Julia Willoughby Nason & Daniel B. LevinCreated By: Jenner Furst & Tony Goldman
Executive Producer: Tony GoldmanA CINEMART Production
In Association With Goldman Projects
Coordinating Producer: Meghan Coleman
Consulting Producer: Medvin Sobio
I received the link to this video from Alain Renk. Alain is from UFO—Urban Fabric Organisation. The video showcases UFO’s Ville sans Limite (Unlimited Cities) initiative. Unlimited Cities is a participatory platform used by architect to enable citizens to change their neighborhood. It is a rapid prototyping tool that allows people to “bring their ideas and react to architectural or urbanistic proposals in a situated way.”
Some nights and restless days in a former factory in Montreuil in May and June 2011.
The initiative Unlimited Cities was presented by UFO for the first time in June 2011 during the french festival “Futur en Seine” in Paris. (English version – courtesy Google)
GIVING RISE TO A COLLABORATIVE URBANISM
The prototype Unlimited Cities is the first step toward collaborative intelligence tools designed to enrich the debates on the future of our urban environments. For these discussions to be productive, it is necessary to build bridges between planning professionals and citizens who possess countless expertise and knowledge.This request from professionals both great modesty and great ambition. Modesty, because the citizens listening can challenge many assumptions and habits. Ambition because collaborative urbanism is intended to invent new frameworks for match the stakes posed by the accelerated changes from one connected planet .
villes-sans-limite.org (to test the prototype, remember to connect with an iPhone or IPAD)
Cities Unlimited is a module of the collaborative research project Urband, supported by European funds FEDER in Paris Region, led by UFO with Preview, Think-Out and 3 research laboratories : Telecom ParisTech, LAA CNRS and LIPN Paris 13
Alain Renk for UFO
I love the concept behind this system. It would be great to have an integrated mobility system that allows you to go from bike to bus to car as needed. The idea of recovering costs through generating miles as you cycle is especially intriguing.
mo is a new mobility system – it helps make the city a better place to live.
mo subscribers can rent bikes, cargobikes, ebikes and cars or use public transportation with just one card. With mo it pays to be eco-friendly: choose an eco-friendly transport or use your own bike to collect momiles. The more momiles the lower your bill. For instance if you mostly ride bikes, renting a car gets cheaper. Cycle and save money.
Through his Yurbanism brand, Yuri Artibise explores the ‘Y’ of urbanism by sharing ways to make our cities more livable, community-oriented places one block at a time.
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