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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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Open311 – opening the city like we really mean it

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in dot-star-camp | tagged as , , , , , , ,

Last Friday, due to a great stroke of fortune, I got to visit the Vancouver 311 call centre and hear a presentation from two of that project’s key figures: the person who championed the project within City Hall, Barbara Pearce, and the Operations Manager, Darcy Wilson. I didn’t know too much about the 311 project [...]

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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 – City Application Idea: Civic Mythbusters

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

I’m dreaming of something akin to a Civic Mythbusters website. Everyone’s got an urban legend or generalization that’s been passed around so often, it might as well be fact for the way people talk about it. But when the data to actually really truly verify the validity of a claim is made available and the analysis possible, well, why not do it?

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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 – Vancouver is not serious about rail

by Richard Eriksson | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network | tagged as , , , , , , ,

Guest post from Richard Eriksson discussing his thoughts on the future of rail infrastructure in Vancouver.

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Blogathon 2009 – Unintended Uses: Bike Polo (!) (?) at Sunset Beach

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Blogathon 2009 - Vancouver Public Space Network, Four dimensions | tagged as , , , , , , ,

We’d heard rumours, but never actually seen people playing bike polo. Bike polo! We passed by them at Sunset Beach one day.

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