Tag Archives: scarp

Re-imagining Britannia Community Centre and surrounding neighbourhood

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 [...]

Hong Kong Heritage, and Upcoming Lecture on “The Urbanism of Ambition”

I’ve got a little bit of Hong Kong and China on the brain right now:

I discovered skimming feeds in my reader today that Metro Babel posted a four-part series reviewing a previous SFU City lecture on heritage building preservation in that-other-city-in-my-heart, Hong Kong. (Part 1, 2, 3, 4 and a round-up of conservation practices in [...]