Brutkey

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇🚇
@straphanger@urbanists.social

...where the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ will turn a former army base into a high-rise community, likely to be connected to the SkyTrain network along the Broadway Subway, for 24,000 people.


𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇🚇
@straphanger@urbanists.social

I take a look at how my old hometown, K'emk'emeláy (aka #Vancouver), built on stolen land, is about to be changed for the better by the people dispossessed by railways and settlers.

So, chuck away the ol' boomer-era Chief Dan George tropes (as great as that man was!) It's time to make way for Indigenous Urbanism:

https://www.highspeed.blog/the-future-of-cities-is-indigenous/

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇🚇
@straphanger@urbanists.social

Also, be sure to have a listen to Angela Sterritt's amazing Land Back podcast for the deep background to this story:

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1341-landback/episode/15952788-e5-a-village-burned?ref=highspeed.blog