The Vancouver Declaration (digital version), 1976
The Vancouver Action Plan or “64 Recommendations to National Action” 1976 (digital version)
The Vancouver Declaration (original pdf, via the UN) of 1976
World Urban Forum 3 Vancouver (2006, 30th Anniversary of Habitat I)
Today of third July 2014. I visit to Granville Island in. Cartwright St and I cannot find a plaque let me know where the place at thanks
Perhaps history, sanity and the world would have been better served by keeping this Communications event ongoing. It was a Canadian UN and grass roots project, that finally collapsed notwithstanding some vision, at the hand of short sighted and other sighted city council and personality conflicts?
Why is this image so out of focus? Frank York and I, Lenore Barron executed this Bill Reid mural. Too bad there weren’t better photos of the mural. I have 1000s of images of the building of the site as I documented it photographically every day of the nine months of the building of the site.
My wife had been hired to work at this conference and heard there was to be a healing the earth ceremony performed by the Hopi. On the day of, at dawn, we rode down to Jericho Beach and witnessed an extraordinary event. There were many elders present but it was a young Hopi who was tasked with carrying the staff around the fire while reciting a prayer for healing; the rhythmic cadence, the beauty of Jericho at dawn, the poetry and power of the Hopi prayer and the hope that was in the air still inspire.