Series consists of articles, essays, and other publications by Walter Hardwick. Files in Boxes 12 and 13 were acquired from the Department of Geography in 2001.

Series consists of records generated during Hardwick's tenure as provincial deputy minister of education. It includes correspondence and reports.

Series consists of records generated during Walter Hardwick's involvement with the Open Learning Agency and his tenure as chair of the Knowledge Network of the West (KNOW). It includes correspondence, reports, and minutes.

Series consists of records documenting Hardwick's political and educational activities but which he kept or acquired for his interest. It includes personal correspondence, sketches and notes, newspaper clippings and other published materials, and course materials.

Series consists of records created or acquired by Hardwick during his tenure on Vancouver City Council and arranged by the creator according to subject and includes correspondence and reports.

Series consists of records generated in the course of a federal environmental inquiry, headed by Hardwick, into a waste processing plant proposed for Sumas in the Fraser Valley in August 1992. It includes correspondence from local individuals and groups, reports, and materials distributed during a public meeting during the inquiry.

Series consists of published reports dealing with urban planning issues in the Greater Vancouver area, particularly transportation, urban development, and the redevelopment of False Creek. It is arranged in False Creek's sub-series, Other Development Projects, Transportation, and General.

Series consists of records dealing with urban planning issues in the Greater Vancouver area, particularly transportation and the redevelopment of False Creek. It includes reports, correspondence, minutes, and published materials. It also contains photographs of architects' models for False Creek and Granville Island in files 1-6. The series is arranged in the sub-series False Creek, Transportation, and General.

Series consists of records generated during Walter Hardwick's tenure as a Vancouver alderman. It includes correspondence, reports, and committee minutes.

Series consists of records generated during the 1971-74 "Vancouver Urban Futures Project" and the 1989-90 "Choosing Our Future" follow-up project, intended to determine citizens' views on various urban development and lifestyle issues. It includes correspondence, reports, computer print-outs, and telephone survey questionnaires (draft versions and both blank and completed forms) used in the surveys.

The fonds primarily consists of textual records, including correspondence, reports, minutes, and published materials which together document Walter Hardwick's political and academic careers. They are arranged in series and sub-series based largely on his areas of activity and interest. The series are Urban Planning, Urban Planning Publications, Vancouver City Council, Open Learning Agency / Knowledge Network, Ministry of Education, Vancouver Urban Futures Project, Sumas Waste Processing Plant Environmental Review, Personal Papers, Essays, Reports and Reprints, and Subject Files. Photographs of architects' models for False Creek and Granville Island are also included. The fonds also includes videotapes consisting mainly of interview footage.