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Sustainability, collaboration and creativity are at the basis of the changes currently being experienced by our society. Since 2008, Defiant Imagination has been looking at how these concepts are being applied to different areas of our daily life: urbanism, food, the economy, social media, and more.
Its author, Flavie Halais, is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist.-
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Finding the right city
As part of my research on cities and personality, I’ve just finished perusing Richard Florida’s Who’s Your City. Florida says we should look at different factors when searching for the right city to move in. One of them is personality. This shouldn’t be a secret to anybody that certain cities offer different types of stimulation. [...]
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Cities, happiness and personality: a research manifesto
Dear readers, I really tried to love Vancouver. I will not spend a great deal of time trying to convince you that I did, but I really did. The fact is, five months after moving here, I’m a shadow of my old self. I will not spend a great deal of time trying to explain [...]
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Nelson, B.C., a town from the West