Metro Vancouver residents have a new way to make their voices heard on issues such as the revitalization of local town centres through the 2012 Greater Vancouver Urban Futures Opinion Survey, the online version of a historic survey that has been instrumental in shaping the way the lower mainland municipalities
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BC Day and the Urban Futures Survey
This British Columbia Day weekend, let the policy makers know what issues are important to you, and what direction Metro Vancouver should pursue for the next decade by taking 22 minutes to complete the 2012 Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey. Twenty years ago, most of the waste produced in Metro
Blast From the Past: Report Covers from 1973 and 1990/91
While going through our archives, we can across several reports. We scanned the covers of a few of them. It is interesting to see how much the city has changed from the images on these covers. I wonder what it will look like in another 22 years? The Greater
Mike Harcourt on the Urban Futures Survey
Mike Harcourt—former mayor of Vancouver, former B.C. premier and Chair of PlaceSpeak’s Board of Directors—spoke to City of North Vancouver council on November 14, 2011 to ask for support for the Urban Future Survey. Here is a video of Mike’s introductory remarks at the Council meeting: Transcript I’m here to
The Impacts of the Urban Futures Survey
A third version of the Urban Futures Survey will be launched later this month (January 2012). While we are fine-tuning the questions, we wanted to share with you some of the results of the earlier surveys. Here are a few of the impacts from the 1990 survey: Impacts of the
Summary of the 1990 Greater Vancouver Urban Futures Opinion Survey
The Urban Futures Opinion Survey was designed to find long-term trends in the relative importance of a number of community and regional issues. It was conducted in 1990 through personal interviews with 1,300 randomly selected residents of Greater Vancouver. Respondents were asked to rate 54 different public issues based on a scale ranging from unimportant to critically important. The survey helps