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Connections PodcastRevisiting the Rochester Urbanarium: Lessons for 2026Have you heard of the Rochester Urbanarium? Formed in 1970, the independent citizens' organization was dedicated to helping residents become more engaged with their local government to solve community problems. The founder, Gene DePrez, died last year, but his legacy lives on. An upcoming symposium celebrates DePrez's work and explores how residents can put the ideas of the Urbanarium into practice today. Our guests preview the event and discuss what it means to engage with government and each other — and how to encourage more of it.
Simeon Banister, president and CEO of the Rochester Area Community Foundation
Liz Call, fo...
2026-01-2851 min
Below the RadarSISOSIG: If We Need More Homes, Why Can’t We Build Them?This week we’re highlighting an episode created by our friends at Urbanarium City Talks, from their Should I Stay Or Should I Go? podcast. This series follows Jenny Tan on her mission to figure out how to keep on living in Vancouver, as she explores the housing crisis from her trailer home in the Westend.
Throughout the series, Jenny asks Sonja Trauss, president of YIMBY, journalist/writer Sam Cooper, developers Heather Tremain, Tony Pappajohn and Leslie Shieh, Andy Yan, director of SFU's City Program and her mom, should she stay or should she go? She is asking you too.
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2022-08-1928 min
Urbanarium City TalksThe Trip DiaryWe are sharing an episode from our friends at SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. It is a Below the Radar mini-series called The Trip Diary that focuses on accessible, sustainable and equitable transportation in urban spaces.
In this instalment called B-Line to the Future, SFU Urban Studies alum and host Steve Tornes speaks with Bowinn Ma and Uytae Lee about their engagement work involving transit systems, as well as the possible futures of getting around in the Lower Mainland.
Listen to the full Trip Diary series: bit.ly/3Ise6F3
2022-08-1954 min
Should I Stay or Should I Go?Minister David Eby Talks Housing and HopeBut wait, there's more! I talk with housing minister David Eby about balancing the desires of two camps of people: those who want house prices to stay high and those who want prices to come down; about what it would take to build more homes; and about whether there's hope.
2022-06-1446 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Minister David Eby Talks Housing and HopeBut wait, there's more! I talk with housing minister David Eby about balancing the desires of two camps of people: those who want house prices to stay high and those who want prices to come down; about what it would take to build more homes; and about whether there's hope.
2022-06-1446 min
Urbanarium City TalksSISOSIG BONUS: Minister David Eby Talks Housing and HopeBut wait, there's more! I talk with housing minister David Eby about balancing the desires of two camps of people: those who want house prices to stay high and those who want prices to come down; about what it would take to build more homes; and about whether there's hope.
2022-06-1446 min
The Craft with May Globusepisode 058: Mark GeorgeMark George possesses an original perspective, someone with the ability to look at the world and spaces in it with a nonconformist eye. The longtime designer & furniture maker recently founded August Studios, an East Vancouver building for artists, designers, and makers to work, learn, and collaborate.Born in Miami, his family moved to Seattle when he was 10-years-old. His bank consultant father was battling leukemia, and the city had a cancer research hospital with the necessary treatment. His father’s search for new bone marrow became a national story on Oprah, Geraldo, and Sixty Mi...
2022-05-2544 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?The Decision. Should I Stay or Should I Go?This is the very last episode of this season where Bruce and I process everything our guests have told us so far. Also, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for: do I stay in my trailer or do I go?
2022-05-2417 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?The Decision. Should I Stay or Should I Go?This is the very last episode of this season where Bruce and I process everything our guests have told us so far. Also, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for: do I stay in my trailer or do I go?
2022-05-2417 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: The Decision. Should I Stay or Should I Go?This is the very last episode of this season where Bruce and I process everything our guests have told us so far. Also, this is the moment you’ve been waiting for: do I stay in my trailer or do I go?
2022-05-2417 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?What Should We Do About Investors?SFU professor Andy Yan and I talk about the impact of investors on Metro Vancouver's housing market and what it means for people trying to live here.
2022-05-1735 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?What Should We Do About Investors?SFU professor Andy Yan and I talk about the impact of investors on Metro Vancouver's housing market and what it means for people trying to live here.
2022-05-1735 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: What Should We Do About Investors (and who are they anyway)?SFU professor Andy Yan and I talk about the impact of investors on Metro Vancouver's housing market and what it means for people trying to live here.
2022-05-1735 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Should I Move into Co-housing? (And what is that anyway?)Leslie Shieh, co-founder of the development company Tomo Spaces, breaks down the concept of co-housing and what it costs to build a home.
2022-05-1020 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Should I Move into Co-housing? (And what is that anyway?)Leslie Shieh, co-founder of the development company Tomo Spaces, breaks down the concept of co-housing and what it costs to build a home.
2022-05-1020 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: Should I Move into Co-housing? (And what is that anyway?)Leslie Shieh, co-founder of the development company Tomo Spaces, breaks down the concept of co-housing and what it costs to build a home.
2022-05-1020 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Should I Build Luxury Condos or Should I Build Affordable Housing?Tony Pappajohn, president of Jameson Development Corp., talks about why so many developers have a hard time building affordable housing (even if they wanted to).
2022-05-0333 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Should I Build Luxury Condos or Should I Build Affordable Housing?Tony Pappajohn, president of Jameson Development Corp., talks about why so many developers have a hard time building affordable housing (even if they wanted to).
2022-05-0333 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: Should I Build Luxury Condos or Should I Build Affordable Housing?Tony Pappajohn, president of Jameson Development Corp., talks about why so many developers have a hard time building affordable housing (even if they wanted to).
2022-05-0333 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?You Might Be Competing With Money Launderers for a HomeInvestigative reporter Sam Cooper explains how Vancouver real estate became a key channel for international drug trafficking. Also, why did so many people in power who know about the hockey bags of drug money turn a blind eye?
2022-04-2630 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?You Might Be Competing With Money Launderers for a HomeInvestigative reporter Sam Cooper explains how Vancouver real estate became a key channel for international drug trafficking. Also, why did so many people in power who know about the hockey bags of drug money turn a blind eye?
2022-04-2630 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: You Might Be Competing With Money Launderers for a HomeInvestigative reporter Sam Cooper explains how Vancouver real estate became a key channel for international drug trafficking. Also, why did so many people in power who know about the hockey bags of drug money turn a blind eye?
2022-04-2630 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Bonus: Jenny’s MomMy mom, a homeowner, immigrant, and parent, gives her take on the housing crisis - and how she feels about me moving back in permanently if I can’t afford to live anywhere else.
2022-04-1915 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Bonus: Jenny’s MomMy mom, a homeowner, immigrant, and parent, gives her take on the housing crisis - and how she feels about me moving back in permanently if I can’t afford to live anywhere else.
2022-04-1915 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Should I Buy or Should I Rent?On today’s show, the classic question: should you rent or should you buy? Heather Tremain, CEO of Options for Homes, one of Canada’s largest non-profit developers, gives us her take.
2022-04-1927 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Should I Buy or Should I Rent?On today’s show, the classic question: should you rent or should you buy? Heather Tremain, CEO of Options for Homes, one of Canada’s largest non-profit developers, gives us her take.
2022-04-1927 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG BONUS: Jenny’s MomMy mom, a homeowner, immigrant, and parent, gives her take on the housing crisis - and how she feels about me moving back in permanently if I can’t afford to live anywhere else.
2022-04-1915 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: Should I Buy or Should I Rent?On today’s show, the classic question: should you rent or should you buy? Heather Tremain, CEO of Options for Homes, one of Canada’s largest non-profit developers, gives us her take.
2022-04-1927 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?If We Need More Homes Why Can’t We Build Them?The answer might surprise you. Sonja Trauss is the president of YIMBY Law in California, a non-profit that sues cities for not obeying their own housing laws. She explains why all across North America and not just in Vancouver, it’s so hard to build the homes we need.
2022-04-1228 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?If We Need More Homes Why Can’t We Build Them?The answer might surprise you. Sonja Trauss is the president of YIMBY Law in California, a non-profit that sues cities for not obeying their own housing laws. She explains why all across North America and not just in Vancouver, it’s so hard to build the homes we need.
2022-04-1228 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Intro: Yup, I Live in a Trailer in Vancouver’s Fanciest NeighbourhoodCold showers, cheap rent, and living ten minutes from the beach: I give the low down on what it's like to live in a trailer in Vancouver's fancy West Point Grey neighbourhood.
2022-04-1215 minShould I Stay or Should I Go?Intro: Yup, I Live in a Trailer in Vancouver’s Fanciest NeighbourhoodCold showers, cheap rent, and living ten minutes from the beach: I give the low down on what it's like to live in a trailer in Vancouver's fancy West Point Grey neighbourhood.
2022-04-1215 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG: If We Need More Homes Why Can’t We Build Them?The answer might surprise you. Sonja Trauss is the president of YIMBY Law in California, a non-profit that sues cities for not obeying their own housing laws. She explains why all across North America and not just in Vancouver, it’s so hard to build the homes we need.
2022-04-1228 minUrbanarium City TalksSISOSIG INTRO: Yup, I Live in a Trailer in Vancouver’s Fanciest NeighbourhoodCold showers, cheap rent, and living ten minutes from the beach: I give the low down on what it's like to live in a trailer in Vancouver's fancy West Point Grey neighbourhood.
2022-04-1215 min
Urbanarium City TalksShould I Stay or Should I Go? (SISOSIG) TrailerJenny Tan is on a mission to figure out how to keep on living in Vancouver and so explores the housing crisis from her trailer home in the Westend.
She asks Sonja Trauss, president of YIMBY, journalist/writer Sam Cooper, developers Heather Tremain, Tony Pappajohn and Leslie Shieh, Andy Yan, director of SFU's City Program and her mom, should she stay or should she go? She is asking you too.
2022-04-0500 min
Urbanarium City TalksShould I Stay Or Should I Go? Series TrailerJenny Tan is on a mission to figure out how to keep on living in Vancouver and so explores the housing crisis from her trailer home in the Westend. She talks to Sonja Trauss, president of YIMBY, journalist/writer Sam Cooper, Cheyenne Stonechild, International Institute For Child Rights & Development, Heather Tremain, CEO of Options for Homes, Leslie Shieh, founder of Tomo and Take Root, developer Tony Pappajohn, Andy Yan, director of SFU's City Program and her mom. Should she stay, or should she go?
2022-03-3000 min
Below the RadarDesigning Equitable Spaces — with Anthonia OgundeleAm Johal is joined by Ethọ́s Lab founder Anthonia Ogundele on this episode of Below the Radar. Anthonia shares about her career in emergency management and sustainability and the origins of Ethọ́s Lab. Anthonia also discusses the inequalities of the education system with respect to STEAM and innovation programs, and the importance of centering the Black experience when creating spaces for youth.
Ethọ́s Lab is a non-profit social enterprise that is developing an online collaborative platform and creative co-working spaces for youth ages 13-18 that foster the exploration of culture and STEAM.
Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/va...
2021-04-0727 minUrbanarium City TalksSlow StreetsThe Experiment. A conversation on transportation with City of Vancouver and the City of Oakland, California on municipal rapid responses to COVID. How have urban planners responded to the COVID crisis on our streets and on our sidewalks? What worked, what was the feedback process, what was learned and what to we get to keep.
2021-01-2240 minUrbanarium City TalksBuilding AtlanthosShifting from Consumers to Creators – Black Youth in the Forth Place: a conversation with Ethos Lab and the forces that have helped Build Atlanthos: an Atlantis themed, Afrofuturist inspired, virtual space made by and for young people. We talk technology and space integration, the role of digital infrastructure in the future of city making and the power of co-creation within the Fourth Place.
2021-01-2251 minUrbanarium City TalksCity CircleA conversation with an assembled group of planners and designers involved in city-wide plans around the world on the eve of Vancouver developing its comprehensive plan, and as the Squamish Nation launches its new development Sen̓áḵw. Moderated by Khelsilem.
2021-01-191h 24
The Pulse on CFROThe Pulse Interview: Bruce Haden (Urbanarium) part 2Bruce Haden, Missing Middle, part 2
2020-12-1120 minThe Pulse on CFROThe Pulse on CFRO: Thursday, December 10Along with the latest news, today Mei Xi talks to Bruce Haden, Director at the non-profit Urbanarium. The two discuss how Haden sees 'Missing Middle' development as one of the keys to solving Vancouver's housing crisis.
2020-12-1027 minThe Pulse on CFROThe Pulse Interview: Bruce Haden (Urbanarium)Today, Mei Xi talks to Bruce Haden, Director at the non-profit Urbanarium. The two discuss how Haden sees 'Missing Middle' development as one of the keys to solving Vancouver's housing crisis.
2020-12-1023 min
Thinkspace PodcastWhat Makes Vancouver Unique with Urbanist CHRIS VOLLAN
Chris is a transplanted Albertan-Okanaganite who has trekked genetically through the worlds of hospitality, earthquake engineering, real estate development and construction in Western Canada and the hinterlands of California.
An avid urbanist and admitted agent of change, Chris volunteers on the boards of The Urbanarium, an organization committed to advancing Vancouver’s urban conversation and QMUNITY, a non-profit organization that works to improve queer, trans, and Two-Spirit lives across British Columbia.
For full show notes, references, further reflections on this podcast and more head to our website at www.thinkspacepodcast.com/chris-vollan
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2020-03-171h 12