Description

Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) was an institutional experiment that assembled a collective of artists, writers, and researchers, and invited them to appropriate 221A’s exhibition space as a site of communal study between May and August 2016. The collective convened twice a week to plan and carry out an investigation into the institution’s intimate surroundings: Vancouver’s Chinatown and Downtown Eastside. These overlapping neighbourhoods have historically been a vital nexus of struggles for immigrant and working class power, Indigenous sovereignty, and the right to housing. At present, this contested terrain is besieged by a campaign of resurgent capital investment—‘economic revitalization’, or eviction, displacement, and gentrification, in brief force.

The books, documents, and ephemera were gathered in the course of the collective’s study to produce a ‘cognitive map’ of Vancouver’s current political conjuncture. Bringing together materials including international case studies of urban planning, social housing design manuals, and printed matter produced in local campaigns for ‘the right to the city’, the collection is intended not only as an interpretive device for understanding Vancouver’s permanent real estate crisis, but moreover provide the tools to transform the present.

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Status
Collection
Name
Produced by
Material
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Place
Subjects
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Artists Against War and Fascism Matthew Baigell, Julia Williams Print Vincent Tao
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Spirit of the Ghetto Hutchins Hapgood Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Building Paranoia- The Proliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of Spatial Justice Steven Flusty Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) A Treatise on Domestic Economy Catharine Beecher Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes Talmadge Wright Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Seismic Modernism
Architecture and Housing in Soviet Tashkent
Philipp Meuser Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Scapegoat 7: Incarceration Nasrin Himada, Chris Lee Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Curating Research Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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009
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hogan's Alley Cornelia Wyngaarden, Andrea Fatona DVD N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Work Wealth and Happiness of Mankind H.G. Wells Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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011
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience Jerold Kayden Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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012
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Envisioning Development
Guide No. 1: What Is Affordable Housing?
Rosten Woo,John Mangin Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
013
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hardcore Architecture Marc Fischer Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Inventing the Future
Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Creative Community Organizing Si Kahn Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Invented Emergency Broken City Lab Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Unfurlings
Explorations in art, activism, and archiving
Daniel Tucker, Rebecca Zorach Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
018
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Crisis Folklore The Groundswell Collective Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Leftover Rightunder Wes Janz Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Towards a Typology of Soviet Mass Housing
Prefabrication in the USSR 1955-1991
Philipp Meuser, Dimitru Zadorin Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) History of Richmond Municipality Thomas Kidd Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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022
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Interrupting the City:
Artistic Constitutions of the Public Sphere
Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Frontier Michael DeForge Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Rise Early, Be Industrious Olivia Plender Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Golden Speculum: A History of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, 1970-1983 Star Deibert-Turner Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Re-Imagining Policing in Canada Dennis Cooley Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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028
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Housing Design
A Manual
Bernard Leupen, Harald Mooij Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Politics of Study Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Tom Vandeputte Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Language Rights are Civil Rights! Public Access Design, The Center for Urban Pedagogy Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Notice of Community Open House City of Vancouver Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Carnegie Community Action Project Newsletter Carnegie Community Action Project Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Affidavit Jamie Hilder Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Red Summer Self-guided Walking Tour: Chicago Melinda Fries Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) We Won't Move!
Tenants Organize in New York City
Maggie Schreiner Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Asian American & Pacific Islander
Anti-displacement Strategies
Lailan Huen Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Evict Your Landlord Vincent Tao Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Carnegie Community Action Project's 2015 Hotel Survey and Housing Report
Our Homes Can't Wait
Jean Swanson, King-mong Chan, Maria Wallstam, Mohammad Valayati Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
040
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) 5 revised questions about Chicago's architecture.
For Rahm Emanuel
Marc Fischer, Hardcore Architecture Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) 3 Acres on the Lake: DuSable Park Proposal Project Laurie Palmer, Patricia Phillips, Christopher Robert Reed Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Mobile Phenomena Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Trauma 1-11:
Stories about the Copenhagen Free University and the surrounding society in the last ten years
Henriette Heise, Emma Hedditch, Howard Slater, Anthony Davies and Jakob Jakobsen Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Publishing 'Zines for Prisoners
An Interview with Anthony Rayson
Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Queens, Hookers, and Hustlers:
Organizing for survival and revolt amongst gender-variant sex workers, 1950-1970
Text used is by Mark Friedman Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Copenhagen Free University #4:
The ABZ of The Copenhagen Free University - ABZ Fra Det Fri Universitet i København
Copenhagen Free University Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Copenhagen Free University #14:
Gurellia Television and Activist Video: A view from the last 35 years
Copenhagen Free University Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Due Time Fats', George Frison, William Jones, Erica R. Meiners, James Piggues, Sarah Ross, Johnny Taylor, Devon Terrell, Fereshteh Toosi, and Alan White Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Power/Exchange Deborah Stratman Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Madison Wisconsin: A City in Nine Objects Madison Mutual Drift Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) 100 Actions for Chicago Torture Justice Lucky Pierre Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Library Project Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Public Phenomena Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Public Phenomena -
Informal Modifications of Shared Spaces
Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Designated Drivers Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016)
Propositions, Manifestos & Experiments
Cultural Reproducers Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Self Reliance Library Temporary Services Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) How to Write (More)
Cómo escribir (más)
Antena Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) A Manifesto for Interpretation as Instigation -
Un manifesto para la interpretación como instigación
Antena Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) A Manifesto for Discomfortable Writing -
Un manifesto para la escritura discómoda
Antena Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) A Manifesto for Ultratranslation -
Un manifiesto para la ultratraducción
Antena Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Haymarket 1886:2011 Samuel Barnett, Paul Durica, Euan Hague Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Environment Sample Sung Pil Yoon for Spare Room Birdseye/
Pea Gravel (5mm)
N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Housing in New York:
A Brief History
Glenn Ligon Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Cities and Insurrections Eric J. Hobsbawm Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Evictions:
Art and Spatial Politics
Rosalyn Deutsche Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) I have a basement apartment. NOW WHAT? The Center for Urban Pedagogy Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Ni Québec
Ni Canada
Anonymous Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Rent, Repairs, and Rights:
A Guide to Housing Court for NYCHA Tenants
Public Access Design, The Center for Urban Pedagogy Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) How to Look at a Vancouver Special Keith Higgins Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) A Community Under Attack:
The displacement of vulnerable Metrotown residents by the City of Burnaby's Demoviction development policies
Stop Demovictions Burnaby Campaign Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Making Policy Public: We Care!
Your guide to the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights
Domestic Workers United, Damon Locks, The Center for Urban Pedagogy Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Belyayevo Forever:
A Soviet Microrayon on its Way to the UNESCO List
Kuba Snopek Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Scapegoat Issue 00 Adrian Blackwell, Etienne Turpin Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Scapegoat Issue 01 Jane Hutton, Etienne Turpin Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Scapegoat Issue 02 Adam Bobbette, Jane Hutton Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Scapegoat Issue 03 Adrian Blackwell, Adam Bobbette Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Can We Afford This?
The Task Force on Housing is Coming
Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) LOOK Impractical Labour in Service of the Speculative Arts Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Home Fronts, Housing Struggles AREA Chicago Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Carnegie Newsletter, September 15 2016 Carnegie Community Centre Association Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Just Listed
1152 E Georgia St- Vancouver East
WestCoast Realty Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Touring Olympia: Exposition Park Los Angeles + an audio tour into post-olympic space Temporary Travel and Sarah Ross Print/CD N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Making Policy Public: Immigrants Beware!
The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Families for Freedom Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Captive Audience Gallery 400 Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Extra 2:
Hong Kong's Informal Rooftop Communities
Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham, Brett Bloom Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Getting Serious About Affordable Housing:
Towards a Plan for Metro Vancouver
Marc Lee Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Surveying the State of the ILSSA Union Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) How to Build Language Justice
Cómo construir la justicia del lenguaje
Antena Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hardcore Architecture
MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL
Grace Ambrose, Public Collectors Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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091
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hardcore Architecture
January 5, 2016
Marc Fischer, Public Collectors Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
092
Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hardcore Architecture
#20 April 2016
Justin Blinder, Public Collectors Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hardcore Architecture
#15 July 2015
CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER
Les Evans, Public Collectors Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Hardcore Architecture
#16 July 2015
Bill Daniel, Public Collectors Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
095
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) True Buddha News Weekly
May 19, 2016
True Buddha Publication Society Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
096
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) AREA Chicago #7:
The Politics of Inheritance
AREA Chicago Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
097
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) AREA Chicago #8:
Everybody's Got Money Issues
AREA Chicago Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) AREA Chicago #9:
Peripheral Vision
AREA Chicago Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Making Policy Public: 房屋法院協助 Housing Court Answers, The Center for Urban Pedagogy Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) 北杂學運 : 歷史的見證 星島出版社 Print Allan Lee
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: A Citizen's Guide To Rights When Dealing With Police N.O.P.E. 2016 Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) BC EMPLOYEE FIELD GUIDE: Know Your Rights To Safety, Respect And Fairness At Work N.O.P.E. 2016 Print N.O.P.E. 2016
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Vancouver's Feminist Bookstore Opening Soon!
Image reproduced by 221A with the permission of the artist, Jo Cook Print Alexandra Bischoff, Vincent Tao
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Self-Organised Stine Hebert & Anne Szefer Karlsen (Eds.) Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Suburbanisms: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape / Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee 1923-1968 Museum of Chinese in America Print N.O.P.E. 2016
NO16
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Reference Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Negotiator's Factomatic H. William Koch Jr. Print Allan Lee
NO16
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) Exploring The UBC Endowment Lands Art Klassen and Jan Teversham Print Allan Lee
NO16
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Available Notes on Political Ecologies (N.O.P.E. 2016) The Capilano Review, 3.35 / Spring 2018 The Capilano Review Print N.O.P.E. 2016