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Cities across North America have worked hard to legalize and encourage more small-scale and multi-unit housing. So why isn't more housing being built? In his video series About Here, Uytae Lee breaks down the problem with most missing middle housing policy.

The Asian Pacific Post

The Asian Pacific Post

The Asian Pacific Post

Why our relationship with the Vancouver icon can’t last. And what could replace it.

WATCH: This informative City of Vancouver video explains what its 166-page document could mean for the future of the city.

Learning to live with fluctuating rivers could be better for ourselves and our environment, writes Uytae Lee, who explores solutions to flooding in the final episode of 'Stories About Here' on CBC Gem.

In an episode of 'Stories About Here,' an original series with the CBC Creator Network, videographer and urban planner Uytae Lee explains why public bathrooms are in short supply in North America — and what can be done to change that.

The Vancouver Urbanarium Society has launched a new competition to generate ideas fro mixed-use housing for the next generation. Following its earlier “Missing Middle” competition for new residential concepts, the new “Mixing Middle” calls on designers to enhance community vitality by proposing ways to add mixed-use functionality into residential neighbourhoods. Existing single-family neighbourhoods need to densify […]

Event: AFTERSHOCK – Looking back at 1918 for a view of Vancouver’s future Event Description The first victim in Vancouver of the 1918 influenza epidemic—Annie Sachs—a mother of three young children – died on October 8, 1918. By October 27, 1918, 24 people in Vancouver died in a single day. Before the disease’s fury was spent, almost one per cent of Vancouver’s population had died. In the following decade, Vancouver underwent extraordinary changes in urban planning, design and arch...