Laneways: The Most Boring Talk You'll Ever Hear About Vancouver

Event Date:
2021-12-09T16:00:00
2021-12-09T17:00:00
Event Location:
Hennings 201 or via zoom
Speaker:
Douglas Scott (UBC)
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Intended Audience:
Undergraduate
Local Contact:

Douglas Scott (duh!)

Event Information:

When lockdown started, I decided to go out for a walk every day.  Exploring my immediate neighbourhood turned into a systematic traversal of each street, and then each laneway.  Every day I would walk a chunk of Vancouver, and after 20 months I completed every public path that I could find in the entire city.  This introduced me to many unfamiliar parts of Vancouver, with the laneways (the neglected network of back alleys) probably holding the most fascination.  In this presentation I'll describe some of the the things I discovered along the way and maybe you'll see some unexpected sides of our city.  Note: there's no physics in this talk!

Add to Calendar 2021-12-09T16:00:00 2021-12-09T17:00:00 Laneways: The Most Boring Talk You'll Ever Hear About Vancouver Event Information: When lockdown started, I decided to go out for a walk every day.  Exploring my immediate neighbourhood turned into a systematic traversal of each street, and then each laneway.  Every day I would walk a chunk of Vancouver, and after 20 months I completed every public path that I could find in the entire city.  This introduced me to many unfamiliar parts of Vancouver, with the laneways (the neglected network of back alleys) probably holding the most fascination.  In this presentation I'll describe some of the the things I discovered along the way and maybe you'll see some unexpected sides of our city.  Note: there's no physics in this talk! Event Location: Hennings 201 or via zoom