These videos, courtesy The Hackery, document the construction of Vancouver’s Habitat Forum site of the 1976 UN Conference on Human Settlements. The beautiful First Nations mural was designed by artist Bill Reid, and the hangar it adorns sat on land now occupied by a chain link fence and sailboat storage at Vancouver’s Jericho Beach, just… read more Happy 35th Anniversary, Habitat Forum & UN Habitat!
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Jane’s Walk 2011 – Habitat Forum site
It was a very rainy but successful Jane’s Walk at Jericho Beach on May 7, 2011, exploring the site of Vancouver’s 1976 Habitat Forum and remaining signs of the old Flying Boat military base. These urban walks are in honour of the renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs, and I was honoured that Jane’s son Ned, also an… read more Jane’s Walk 2011 – Habitat Forum site
Habitat Forum site
On this hand-drawn site plan from the original Habitat Forum site brochure, do you see the building at upper left marked #15 – Press Centre? Today that building is the Jericho Sailing Club, and it is all that remains of this site (with the exception of the driftwood sculpture on the homepage and the wharf… read more Habitat Forum site
Welcome to Habitat Forum – please leave comments here!
Welcome! For a brief introduction to the history of Habitat Forum, held in Vancouver in 1976, please see About Habitat. If you would like to share your memories and/or archival materials about Habitat for this archival project, please comment here by clicking on the number in the speech bubble, or you can email me. For upcoming… read more Welcome to Habitat Forum – please leave comments here!