Robert Kleyn
Robert Kleyn’s project, The Kingsway, invites us to remember the significance of those unexpected forms that both reveal and undermine the dominant infrastructure of the city. Here the street, usually seen as a vector running through the built fabric, is recast as an active and complex space that articulates urban conditions.
Once a trail used by...
Lindsay Brown
In June 1976, Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements took place in Vancouver. The conference was a massive forum for delegates from around the world to meet and discuss pressing issues of homelessness, environmental and social sustainability, and women’s rights and poverty—issues just as pressing today as they were over three decades ago.
Attended by...
Michael Turner
Between 1949 and 2011, 167 feature films were shot in the Vancouver area. Some of these films were set in the city (The Sweet and the Bitter, 1967), while some were set elsewhere (Rumble in the Bronx, 1995). Over the years, film production has had a strong impact on Vancouver, conflating our understanding of the...
Keith Higgins
Keith Higgins has a long-standing interest in the ubiquitous house type lovingly (and often derisively) referred to as the Vancouver Special. Since 2001, he has been scouting the city on the lookout for this instantly identifiable yet impressively varied architectural form.
Built in the city of Vancouver and some of its inner suburbs between the mid-1960s...
