About us
This is an in-person book club dedicated to reading and discussing books about city planning and urban design. Topics will include housing, transportation, sustainability and urban issues more broadly.
Meetups take place every 1-2 months in library meeting rooms or coffee shops, depending on availability and group preference.
Why join this group?
- You are interested in city planning / urban design!
- You like being exposed to new ideas.
- You are willing to listen to and respect other group member's perspectives.
- You recognize city planning as an inherently political process.
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This is a volunteer group with zero ambitions to profit. Likewise, please do not use the group to advertise businesses, programs or services of any kind.
Upcoming events
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Messy Cities - October Book Club Meetup
175 West Hastings Street, 175 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8, Canada, Vancouver, BC, CAWelcome to the first edition of City Circles, a book club discussing city planning & urban design!
For our October meetup we are discussing: Messy Cities - Why We Can't Plan Everything.
About the book:
Edited by Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and John LorincCan messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive? Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality?
Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything argues that spontaneity and urban workarounds are not liabilities but essential elements in all thriving cities.
Forty-three essays by a range of writers from around the world illuminate the role of messy urbanism in enabling creativity, enterprise, and grassroots initiatives to flourish within dense modern cities.
With pieces on guerrilla beaches, desire lines, urban interruptions, and the inner lives of unlovely buildings written by experts from all walks of life, Messy Cities makes the case for embracing disorder while not shying away from confronting its challenges.Information on the book and some options for purchasing it are linked here: https://chbooks.com/Books/M/Messy-Cities
VPL also appears to have eBook copies available.
Meetup Location: Bean Around The World (Cambie & Hastings)
175 West Hastings Street, Vancouver.Whether you finish the book or not, you're welcome to join!
10 attendees
