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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Retheorizing the So-called ‘Gay Ghetto’ of Vancouver’s West End

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Vancouver’s West End in the upper left of this image from Google Earth**
This essay in now in press.* Part of this essay is available in the PDF file that has been posted here. ingram-2009-retheorizing-the-so-called-gay-ghetto-of-vancouvers-west-end
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Can interdisciplinary sciences such as landscape ecology, fields of inquiry that fully engage natural and social sciences, be adapted for better [...]

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The re-emergence of Vancouver’s wooden streets

Friday, April 24, 2009

After long, wet winters, such as this year’s, Vancouver’s old wooden streets that were built little more than a century ago and that have been barely covered in asphalt, begin to re-emerge. These artifacts of the area’s old growth forests, that are primarily scraps of Douglas fir, were found on Railway Street, just west of [...]

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