VANCOUVER - Herb Varley measures the transformation of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by the trendy cafes, upscale grocery stores and high-priced salons that are quickly creeping from the city's ...

Neighbourhood activists decry the recent push to build condos and attract new businesses to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as harmful gentrification, but Vancouver's city council and the provincial ...

In a 2002 collection of essays published on the occasion of Vancouver artist Stan Douglas’ Every Building on 100 West Hastings, two well-known urban scholars wrote on the questions of gentrification ...

In the poorest urban neighbourhood in Canada, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), gentrification has been on the move for decades. Plotting these new developments on a map of the DTES and walking ...

Here we go again. Vancouver city council is proposing a major shift to the Downtown Eastside local area plan by slashing social housing requirements and enabling market towers. But this isn’t ...

Opinion: Resist the gentrification of the Downtown Eastside. Opinion: Proposed shift to the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan to enable market towers will increase speculation in the area ...

Before Woodward’s, she was living in a single-room unit — with no bathroom, no kitchen and walls that were a stone’s throw from loud railway tracks — on the edge of the Downtown Eastside ...

Recent projects renew debate about gentrification in the Downtown Eastside. ... The Carnegie Centre is seen in the downtown eastside area of Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, December, 23, 2012.