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Official Community Plan Update Proposal

February 19, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio

This group project was an exercise in understanding how OCP's are updated. We posed as a consulting firm pitching our process to a small, hypothetical town called Bountiful, BC.

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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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Metrotown’s public art misses the mark

June 9, 2022February 19, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio, Urbanism

Metrotown is a blank canvas. There are so many new developments, with so many voids for community expression.

Tagged art, artscape, capitalism, colour, community, expression, geography, identity, indigenous, landscape, place, planning, public, reconciliation, Salish, scapes, space, urban3 Comments

Half broken, half built: Metrotown in photos

April 6, 2022February 19, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio, Urbanism

At the same intersections, decades-old apartments are torn down while glittering new 'estates' go up...

Tagged apartment, BC, burnaby, canada, demoviction, development, equity, housing, mall, metro, metropolis, metrotown, renoviction, rental, urban, Urbanism, vancouver1 Comment

SFU Environment Feature: Reflecting on SD499

May 22, 2021February 19, 2026 by Marina Miller, posted in Portfolio, Urbanism

This week, my writing is featured on the SFU Environment website.

Tagged abbotsford, art, burnaby, change, cities, city, climate, COVID, covid-19, pandemic, planning, plaza, public, sfu, smart, sustainability, transit, urbanLeave a comment

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