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
Urban Futures Survey
A Message From Mike Harcourt
You may have heard that PlaceSpeak is helping conduct the Metro Vancouver 2012 Urban Futures Survey. The survey is about transportation, housing, arts and culture, land use, and climate change — the key issues for our region’s world renowned quality of life. Take the 2012 Urban Futures Survey Mike Harcourt:
The Urban Futures Survey is Featured on CityTV
This morning, PlaceSpeak CEO Colleen Hardwick talked with Riaz Meghji from Breakfast Television Vancouver about the Urban Futures Survey. Click on the link or image below to hear how we can all help shape the future of our community. Breakfast Television Vancouver: Riaz Talks With Colleen Hardwick (04:03) Note: A brief advertisement will play before the segment
The Importance of the Urban Futures Survey
Ken Cameron explains why people should take part in the Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey. Ken is a past Manager of Policy and Planning with the Greater Vancouver Regional District and a member of the PlaceSpeak Board of Directors. Transcript: The Importance of the Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey
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
Lambda Alpha, Real Estate Foundation Support the Urban Futures Survey
The Real Estate Foundation of BC supports sustainable real estate and land use practices for the benefit of British Columbians through its grants program and other initiatives. PlaceSpeak was awarded 1 of the 11 approved grants in June 2011 to develop a third iteration of
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
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