Category Archives: Parks
Province column: Designer dogs take place of kids as schools shut for lack of pupils
The Province Monday, March 17, 2008 These are gloomy days for dodgeball, hopscotch and other staples of the traditional school recess in British Columbia. Over the past decade, playgrounds and sports fields across the province have gone quiet as a … Continue reading
Trek Park?
It seems the college sit-ins and protests of 2007 just don’t resonate like they did in the 1960s — at least on Canada’s West Coast. Case in point: Trek Park at the University of British Columbia, designed as a gathering … Continue reading
Tower in the park
Gordon Price, who heads up Simon Fraser University’s Cities Program, has some feedback on the observation tower proposed by architect Richard Henriquez for Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park. I like the idea of a tower. There’s just something about getting to … Continue reading
Filed under Green Space, Parks, Vancouver
Vancouver Province column: Heritage festival battles to survive as Cracktown gobbles up Japantown
The Province Monday, July 23, 2007 The Powell Street Festival, Vancouver’s annual celebration of Japanese-Canadian culture, is just around the corner. From tea ceremonies to sumo wrestling to the traditional salmon barbeque, the August 4 and 5 event promises festival-goers … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Heritage, Law and Order, Neighbourhoods, Parks, Vancouver, Vancouver Province Columns
Vancouver Province Column: This park tower would let Vancouver visitors see the forest from the trees
The Province Monday, June 4, 2007 The nimbies and naysayers now are coming out of the Vancouver woodwork to give a proposed viewing tower at the top of the once-popular Queen Elizabeth Park the predictable thumbs-down. Their laundry list of … Continue reading
Filed under Architecture, Environment, Neighbourhoods, Nimbies, Parks, Politics, Vancouver, Vancouver Province Columns
