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Author: Marina Miller

Communications professional in Vancouver and Urban Planning student after hours. I love writing, urbanism, fashion, food, and family.

Public Engagement Survey

February 18, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio

For this Social Planning assignment, we were tasked with creating a basic survey.

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Sample Public Engagement Poster

February 18, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio

For this Social Planning assignment, we were tasked with creating a poster advertising a hypothetical public engagement event.

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Social Planning Photovoice

February 18, 2026February 19, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio

This photovoice exercise uses photographs from my neighbourhood, Mount Pleasant in Vancouver, to understanding the urban planning challenges and needs of the community.

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Environmental Planning Policy Model

February 18, 2026February 18, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio

This simplified policy framework aims to address the issue of greenhouse light pollution in the City of Delta, British Columbia.

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Burnaby needs more pubs: policy analysis and research proposal

November 28, 2025February 18, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio, Urbanism

Once I started researching the lack of nightlife in Burnaby, I realized I had enough evidence to build a viable policy and research proposal.

Tagged business, city, development, downtown, nightlife, planning, town planning, urban planning, Urbanism, vancouverLeave a comment
stylized map showing squamish place names in pre-colonial North Vancouver and Stanley Park

Lower Lonsdale before colonial settlement: planning history

September 30, 2025March 3, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio, Urbanism

This is an excerpt from a school assignment. The whole group paper can be found on LinkedIn.

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Glass building with triangular windows and coast salish art

Not too cool for school

July 11, 2025August 26, 2025 by Marina Miller, posted in Urbanism

My career in Communications over the past five years has been diverse and given me skills I am proud to flex at my current job. Moving forward, I want to meld these skills with my love for cities.

Tagged city planning, college, education, grad school, planning, town planning, university, urban planning, Urbanism, vancouverLeave a comment
e-reader on a table

How I got out of a 10-year reading rut

June 22, 2025June 22, 2025 by Marina Miller, posted in Stream of Consciousness

That feeling of wanting to eat up every book in a series is hard to describe, and I never thought I’d feel it again in adulthood.

Tagged adhd, anxiety, books, fantasy, fiction, london, ocd, reader, reading, romantasy, vancouver, y/aLeave a comment

London will always be my good friend

July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 by Marina Miller, posted in Stream of Consciousness

I found myself wanting to hang out, create memories, and let it tell me stories. It provided countless moments of solace where my homesickness melted away.

Tagged burnabarian, burnaby, canadian, career, europe, expat, homesickness, immigration, journey, london, travel, uk, vancouver, vancouveriteLeave a comment

Taking Barbie into the real world

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023 by Marina Miller, posted in Stream of Consciousness

In adulthood, Barbie is an important part of why being a woman is lovely, even if being a woman still has huge burdens.

Tagged barbie, doll, dolls, fat, feminism, kids, parenting, play, queerLeave a comment

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