Category Archives: Four dimensions

Events, past and future.

Canadian Association of Planning Students 2010 Conference at University of Guelph

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Counting Machines, Scholarship | tagged as , , , , , , ,

Phewf! Between all the running around with the start of the second semester of school, the first month of the year is already week-old history, and I’ve just wrapped up one of the major milestones for this year: the Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS-ACEAU) annual conference at the University of Guelph, hosted by students of [...]

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Vancouver Hackathon and Adopt-A-Stop: The Idea

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Media - explicit | tagged as , , , , , , , , ,

“Adopt-a-Stop” is our idea for a web and mobile-enabled application for community members to find and share information about the five-block radius around each bus stop. As the name alludes, the service will encourage and empower individual community members to garden and curate and take ownership of an individual Facebook-style page for each stop.

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Re-imagining Britannia Community Centre and surrounding neighbourhood

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Scholarship | tagged as , , , , , , , ,

Live on The Drive? Hung out there? Ever walk its streets and think, “This place is perfect! NEVER CHANGE!” Or, conversely, “Gawds, this place is awful, won’t someone please do something about it?” (Doubtful, but just covering the bases…)
This range of reactions is exactly what me and my class have been going through, every week [...]

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The Future of Microblogging and/on Transit

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Big Ideas, Little Moments, City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , , , , ,

Twitter’s model and community are amazing resources to take advantage of, but they’re more important to me as a proof of concept of the value of mobile and ubiquitous web applications. As I implied in my follow-up to John Bollwitt’s tweet, I think we need to ask some serious questions about whether we want our transit system’s information distribution and notification service reliant on a Silicon Valley-based startup with no readily discernible business plan.

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What Open Data Changes: Sustainability and Knowledge Creation

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , , ,

In May, I spoke to Vancouver City Council in support of the motion on open data. One of my beliefs that I stated at that presentation, and which I still believe, is that open data creates the possibility of citizens being able to have conversations based on fact. With the challenges of peak oil and [...]

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One more Home Grow-In Grocer Update

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , , , , , ,

A summary of new developments at the Home Grow-In Grocer, including owner Deb’s philanthropic efforts, new produce and community contributions.

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From Critical Mass to Critical Manners

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , , , , , , , ,

Since the start of the Burrard Bike Lane Reallocation Trial, the temperature of the relationship between cyclists and drivers has occasionally flared up, and I’ve unwittingly and unintentionally exposed myself to more negativity about my choice to be a cyclist and my occasional bending of the law than, really, is mentally healthy.
After this blog post, [...]

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Blogathon 2009 – Where Strangers Become Neighbours, Giovanni Attili and Leonie Sandercock

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , , ,

Review of academic book about the unique process for setting the stage for cultural diversity in Vancouver, on a public policy level, with focus on transformative change and storytelling.

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Blogathon 2009 – Seeing Cities in Maps

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, City, Soup to Nuts | tagged as , , , ,

A conceptual post around the tradeoffs of using social versus visual representations of space and information, with reference to the City of Regina Survival Guide and Map.

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