Showing posts with label zoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoning. Show all posts
27 July 2011
27 December 2010
26 December 2010
30 November 2010
16 November 2010
Homeless
Gastown, Vancouver
When homeless people are put into single-occupancy hotel rooms or social-morass housing, they are being warehoused. Those folks (the silent majority that actually populates the DTES) who are merely old, poor, and crippled and who choose to live downtown, close to necessary services and facilities, are also vulnerable to the invalidating properties of the hotel and social housing industry. The lack of home causes alienation and unhappiness in human beings; the willingness of a society to profit from it provides more of the same.
When homeless people are put into single-occupancy hotel rooms or social-morass housing, they are being warehoused. Those folks (the silent majority that actually populates the DTES) who are merely old, poor, and crippled and who choose to live downtown, close to necessary services and facilities, are also vulnerable to the invalidating properties of the hotel and social housing industry. The lack of home causes alienation and unhappiness in human beings; the willingness of a society to profit from it provides more of the same.
Labels:
academic,
city hall,
downtown,
east end,
hastings street,
heritage,
home,
homeless,
hotel,
housing,
human being,
poverty industry,
society,
zoning
18 October 2010
Illuminating!
Labels:
consciousness,
developer,
hastings street,
light,
media,
new world order,
planner,
signage,
woodwards,
zoning
16 October 2010
09 October 2010
Olympic Soleil
Labels:
condo,
corporation,
developer,
exhibition,
False Creek,
Vancouver's Big O,
zoning
05 October 2010
24 September 2010
14 September 2010
07 September 2010
06 September 2010
04 September 2010
Hastings Park
Gastown, Vancouver
During a recent and first-time visit to Hastings Park Racecourse I was more bedazzled by the running of the mascots than of the thoroughbreds. Why is it funny when a mascot falls over? Perhaps because the whole exercise is so silly and the dehumanization is cushioned by a bulky costume that both disguises and protects. We are more worried that the amusingly employed individual is overheating on a hot summer day.
The two week-long Pacific National Exhibition,which is held in Hastings Park, is over at weekend's end when the racing schedule goes into autumnal denouement.
21 August 2010
17 August 2010
27 July 2010
27 June 2010
13 May 2010
12 May 2010
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