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More on design competitions, and building a city's "culture of design"
By Brent Toderian
Can a city's "design culture" be deliberately grown and fostered? If so, can City Hall be part of such a fostering, or must it come from the grass roots, from the cultural or design communities themselves?
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Amazing Skyscraper Farm for Vancouver
Vertical farms are one of our favorite future-forward concepts for creating sustainable cities. Providing locally-grown produce and food will not only help us reduce our carbon emissions significantly, but also help us become healthier.
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The FormShift Winners: Panel discussion Wednesday
We've been wanting to write about FormShift here over the past few months, but have not found the time so far.
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Calgary Architects Top Vancouver Design Competition
A design competition organized by Vancouver city hall and the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and called FormShift Vancouver attracted 84 submissions from around the world.
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Sustainable Cities Initiative
Creating a Dense and Green City
In February 2009, the City of Vancouver initiated a design competition, FormShift, inviting participants to imagine a dense green new urban development in the Vancouver region...
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TheTyee.ca
'FormShift' winners challenge city to be denser, greener, more exciting.
April 17, 2009
By Charles Campbell
FormShift has seen the future, and George Jetson is an urban alley farmer with a sideline in solar energy...
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Blog: "Architecture Wanted"
Documenting my interest in architecture in and around Vancouver. Not to say that it would take much - rather little - to lead me astray...
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www.francesbula.com
Playing with design in Vancouver: New visions from Formshift
Just what Vancouver needs: A new kind of industrial building that stacks pre-fab floors into a zigzag tower on top of a podium whose leaf-like roof is a garden...
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re:place Magazine
Recess: FormShift / Where’s the Square
By Sean Ruthen, re:Place Magazine
March 24, 2009
Mark Twain once said that you should never let your schooling come between you and your education...
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TheTyee.ca
Design the Next Vancouver - 'FormShift Vancouver' contest invites new ideas for a vibrant, greener, denser city.
By David Beers
February 23, 2009
A new competition invites the world to help Vancouver imagine itself as not only a denser city, but one more green, livable and exciting to the eye...
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