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TED Blog

Meet the 2024 class of TED Fellows - In this complex world, it’s easy to believe that the future is out of our hands. But there are some who understand that the future doesn’t just happen — it...
2 hours ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Follow up: arenas and stadiums as "performing arts centers" attractions for cities: experience versus retail - A couple weeks ago I wrote "Good quote on arenas and stadiums as "performing arts centers" attractions for cities," quoting Ron Kirk then Dallas mayor, o...
4 hours ago
The South Fraser Blog

Langley City Ottawa Mission: Day 1 - It's day one of @LangleyCity_ Council's first mission to Ottawa. We are heading to meet with federal ministers and MPs of all stripes to advocate for inc...
6 hours ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

At 816-860 West 13th Avenue and 2915-2925 Willow Street, two 21-storeys are proposed. Online Q&A April 17-30. - The City of Vancouver is holding an online Q&A session (https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/816-860-w-13-ave-and-2915-2925-willow-st) between April 17 and April 3...
7 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 8: Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, and Robert Rauschenberg - In 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, an...
9 hours ago
Meeting of the Minds

20% CO2 Emission Reduction with only 2% Economic Loss, Says CSH - The post 20% CO2 Emission Reduction with only 2% Economic Loss, Says CSH appeared first on Energy Theory.
11 hours ago
Architect This City

More people are cycling in Chicago - One of the common criticisms of bike lanes is that most people don’t want to cycle in the winter. I mean, just look at Montreal’s winter cycling retention ...
23 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

The Oranges & Lemons Churches - Click here to book for my next tour of the City of London on Sunday 21st April . St Clement’s, Eastcheap “Oranges and lemons,” say the bells of St. Clement...
23 hours ago
ATL Urbanist

Thinking about our visit to the pedestrian-scaled West Village in NYC a few weeks ago and wishing we… - Thinking about our visit to the pedestrian-scaled West Village in NYC a few weeks ago and wishing we hadn’t sprawled our cities in a car-centric directio...
1 day ago
This City Life

Urban Renewal: a new series on restoring community in a post-pandemic world - Over the past four years, I’ve felt increasing disconnected. This is despite being more...
1 day ago
Average Joe Cyclist

How to Carry a Water Bottle on Your Electric Bike - [image: How to carry a water bottle on any bike]Are you having a problem figuring out how to carry a water bottle on your electric bike? Here's a cheap, ...
1 day ago
Changing Vancouver

1260 Barclay Street - This is another West End apartment building designed by R T Perry. This was for Moxam Realty & Construction Co on Barclay Street, and the building only sto...
1 day ago
Urbanism Speakeasy

You can't model the sidewalk ballet - But you can absolutely put traffic models to good use.
1 day ago
Ephemeral New York

Three New York City subway stops, three different design styles - How many ways are there to style a subway entrance sign? In New York City, dozens of designs and typefaces are used across the subway system—often with no ...
1 day ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Blue Island Yard: 1943 - January 1943. Riverdale, Illinois. "Blue Island Yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad with view of the icing platform." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of ...
1 day ago
Pedestrian Observations

What is Incrementalism, Anyway? - The American conversation about high-speed rail has an internal debate that greatly bothers me, about whether investments should be incremental or not. An ...
2 days ago
Michael Geller's Blog

What WoodWorks and Lumon have in common - As noted in my previous post, my work with CWC/WoodWorks was the result of an introduction from Norm Couttie, with whom I worked many years ago at Micha...
3 days ago
Home: Free Sociology!

What if recent apartment buildings in Vancouver were 20% taller? - (co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath) Earlier this year a report from the NSW Productivity Commission in New South Wales, A...
5 days ago
Smart Growth America

New survey: Accessible Streetscapes for the Disability Community - A new survey created in collaboration with Smart Growth America, the International Parking and Mobility Institute, and Disability Rights Education & Defe...
6 days ago
urban75 blog

Art: The Cult of Beauty at the Wellcome Collection examines notions of beauty across time and cultures - This fascinating major new exhibition at the the Wellcome Collection in Euston, central London, explores notions of beauty across time and cultures. It’...
1 week ago
Opticos Design

Sacramento’s Groundbreaking Zoning and Policy Reform - The post Sacramento’s Groundbreaking Zoning and Policy Reform appeared first on Opticos Design.
1 week ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Test post - Can I insert images just by relying on Flickr URL’s? “Hyperion is composed of 5ton bundle of crushed rebar ripped from the concrete walls of a demolished V...
1 week ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

Michael Green speaking at the New European Bauhaus Festival - The building industry could drastically improve humanity’s chances for a sustainable future on this planet. Michael Green will be at the New European Bauha...
1 week ago
Klaustoon's Blog

RU15? Fifteen years of Klaustoon’s Blog - (Image stolen from ) So, just like that, on March 10 this randomly-updated blog became 15 years old, also marking, more or less, the kickstarting of my sor...
1 week ago
AuthentiCity

33,300+ Building Department Architectural Drawings Fully Described - We’re pleased to announce we’ve completed a major project to reprocess the entirety of the Building Department and Permits and ...
1 week ago
City Observatory

Another thing IBR doesn’t want you to know: 30 seconds over Portland - The $7.5 Billion Interstate Bridge Replacement project will save the average commuter just 30 seconds in daily commute time IBR officially determined that ...
2 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Kielder Village, Northumberland: Thomas Sharp and a ‘harbinger of a rural revolution’? - Kielder in Northumberland, population 194, is by most accounts the most remote village in England. The nearest cash machine is … Continue reading →
2 weeks ago
The Corner Side Yard

So Long Blogger, Hello Substack - It's time. After 12 years of writing about cities with a Rust Belt perspective on this platform, I'm closing it down. And no, this is not an April Fool'...
2 weeks ago
Geoff Boeing

Resilient by Design - I have a new article out now in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Here’s a free open-access preprint if you lack institutional access. W...
2 weeks ago
Witold Rybczynski

THE END OF ARCHITECTURE - I got an email request the other day. The sender had asked ChatGPT “What are the best articles about architecture written since 1990?” and the third reco...
2 weeks ago
Ciudad Saludable

¿Qué es inteligencia chilanga? - Es juntar fuerza y conocimiento para reforzar la relación ciudadanía y política para que nuestra CDMX funcione para todos. Me he preparado para ser una alt...
2 weeks ago
The Mainlander

After Complaint, National Post Clarifies Adam Zivo’s Dishonesty on Drug Policy - After a complaint was submitted to the National NewsMedia Council (NNMC), the National Post has settled on issuing a public clarification regarding one of ...
3 weeks ago
Ombú

House 1736 - *A house in the middle of the city.* *The regulations allow the construction of a ground floor and two floors, with a considerable depth that perfectly m...
3 weeks ago
The Pop-Up City

VHS Café Is a Third Space for Tokyo’s Young Filmmakers - While the video store has long since disappeared from the shopping street, a VHS Café recently opened in Tokyo. This third space is an urban living room fo...
5 weeks ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Rules for my neighborhood discussion group - [image: In an old color photo, two buses, one teal and one green, travel west on 37th Avenue over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The first bus has the wor...
1 month ago
Urban Demographics

Measuring transportation equity - I’m very glad to (finally be able to) share our new paper on measuring transportation equity. In this paper we present a critical and theoretically grou...
1 month ago
rethink urban

Change is in the Wind - Change is brought about by many circumstances. It can be invigorating or sometimes a necessity, and in this case it’s a little of both. Rethink Urban (form...
1 month ago
Lewis N. Villegas

Walkable Neighborhoods, Livable Streets, Affordable Houses - Good urbanism is just that simple. We build our urban environment one town and one neighborhood at a time. Ultimately, the decisions we make in the course ...
1 month ago
Howard Blackson

My Taco Shop Theory… - I write, draw, and lament often about how great mixed-use, walkable, transit-supported urbanism is for our civilization. In my part of world, San Diego, on...
2 months ago
Howard Blackson

My Taco Shop Theory… - I write, draw, and lament often about how great mixed-use, walkable, transit-supported urbanism is for our civilization. In my part of world, San Diego, on...
2 months ago
Austin On Your Feet

Discretionary decisions drive incumbent bias - The 2024 City Council campaign season has begun! This post is about zoning but before we get there, let’s review some information about the upcoming campai...
2 months ago
the republic of less

just looking - Look up…Philippe Petit on a wire above the world. On his toes. Why? Save your breath. ”There is no why” he said. Image from here We all know there are time...
2 months ago
Rebel Metropolis

무료로 유튜브 영상을 다운로드 하는 간단한 비법 소개 - 아래에서는 무료로 유튜브 영상을 다운로드할 수 있는 간단한 비법들을 알려드리겠습니다.
2 months ago
Ryan Gravel

Gravel > a short lesson from Munich - (research. work.) For me, every work trip and family vacation becomes a field investigation into how people live and the physical conditions that make the...
3 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

It was as simple as ABC – David Chudnovsky on the latest chapter of the horror show at Little Mountain. - Click on the link to read: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/11/24/Little-Mountain-Could-Be-Model-Affordable-Housing/ In this Tyee article Chudnovsky replays...
3 months ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Building housing — quickly - By Brent Bellamy, Architect + Creative Director *Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press* The federal government is trying to tackle Canada’s hou...
4 months ago
City Beautiful 21

Damon Seils’ Consequential Council Model Gets Results – and Wins Big at the Polls - We are the people we’ve been waiting for. When I wrote my “Fundamentals of Carrboro” blog post, I shared this Barack Obama-ism to point out how most of the...
5 months ago
Come here to me!

Early Houses of Dublin (late 2023) - In February 2015, I published an article listing the remaining 12 or so ‘early house’ pubs in Dublin city centre along with some brief historical backgroun...
5 months ago
Frances Bula

Full text of Housing MInister Sean Fraser’s letter to Metro Vancouver - Letter from Minister Fraser to Mayor Harvie (1) Mayor George Harvie Mayor of Delta Chair of the Board of Metro Vancouver via electronic mail mayorharvie@de...
5 months ago
Urban Springtime

Playing outdoors: What do children do, where and with whom? - There is an increasing interest in outdoor play, both in research and in policy. However, in (re)designing, planning and managing the public space, there...
6 months ago
Born to Walk

Paddling home - After a week on Lake Ontario and a week on the Rideau Canal, I paddled into downtown Ottawa two weeks ago, where my wife Lisa and some friends welcomed me ...
6 months ago
Architecture Tourist

John A. White Golf Clubhouse At Risk - 1938 by Edwards and Sayward - When the manager at John A. White Golf Course told my son that they are tearing down the old clubhouse, I decided to pay my respects. I don't think they ...
6 months ago
mssinenomineblog

Randy Rinaldo And The Normalizing of Racism And Poor-Hating In Canadian Politics - First posted in 2016 Last week the BC Liberals announced they’d chosen Randy Rinaldo as their new candidate for Burnaby-Lougheed. Patti Bacchus, a Vancouve...
6 months ago
BCRobyn

Why you shouldn’t use US dollars in Vancouver - Vancouver’s visited by millions of Americans every year, many visiting to board a cruise ship to Alaska. While you can sometimes use US dollars in Vancou...
7 months ago
Urban Finland

Density without Delight: Vermonniitty’s Lessons for Urban Planners - Vermonniitty's design highlights a pressing need: reinventing our approach to suburban design for a better future. The post Density without Delight: Verm...
8 months ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Crystal Clear Detailing - Over time, our vehicles take a beating. From the weather to embellish and split from getting behind the wheel, you will need to protect your automobile fro...
9 months ago
MetroVanWatch

Act by June 8 to protect Fraser River estuary from Roberts Bank port expansion. Here’s why and how. - Public service announcement, received from Susan Jones. Please Act by June 8th for Roberts Bank, Fraser River Estuary A Notice from the B.C. Environmental ...
10 months ago
Thinking City

Environmental sustainability is not possible without social sustainability - BUILDING PROJECTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD SHOW HOW SHARING AND INCLUSIVITY IS VITAL FOR THE GREEN TRANSITION. WORDS By Francesca Perry In a climate crisis, d...
1 year ago
Beasley & Associates

Housing Families at High Density – City of Vancouver Guidelines - Accommodating families with children in high density environments is a key tenet of Vancouverism. Upon their adoption in 1992, these guidelines helped enab...
1 year ago
PlannerDan

Happy Birthday to Zack Urban Solutions! - Happy Birthday to Zack Urban Solutions! I can hardly believe it, but it has been exactly one year since I left local government and launched my consultin...
1 year ago
A Cartographic View

Twitter Death Watch - For the care of my readers, who despite the absence of blogposts in the last half decade have loyally continued to subscribe here, please note that this ...
1 year ago
Reurbanist

Vietnamese Females: The new Publication on exactly how to Appeal Vietnamese Females - Vietnamese Females: The new Publication on exactly how to Appeal Vietnamese Females Vietnam was an exotic and delightful nation that have breathtaking land...
1 year ago
This Big City

Dark Kitchens: What Next for Tech’s Favourite Food-Based Method of Urban Disruption? - Back in the distant time of April 2017, online food delivery company Deliveroo launched ‘Deliveroo Editions’ – kitchens where chain-restaurant chefs cook...
1 year ago
Market Urbanism

How big is the housing shortage? - Two new estimates of the national housing shortfall offer a seeming contradiction. But we can synthesize the demand and supply models to get close to the...
1 year ago
Real Estate Defined

NASA’s Black Marble Map - The other day I stumbled upon NASA’s Black Marble map, which are effectively satellite images of the Earth at night that capture artificial lighting. The a...
1 year ago
Cities Matter

Auckland at a Turning Point 2: Marking Down the Labour Market - *Reality Bites* For some years I have been calling out the over-exuberant growth expectations behind Auckland’s planning. I have also argued that creat...
1 year ago
Changing City Updates

Health Day: From diabetes to cancer, here’s how your eyes are a window to health | Health - They say, “Eyes aren’t just the window to your soul — they also offer a glimpse into your overall health” and fitness experts root for the same as our eyes...
2 years ago
Restless Urbanist

I Love A Good Stroad And You Should Too! - One of the best contributions to the built environment is by far the Stroad. These Street-Road hybrids are regularly overlooked… The post I Love A Good S...
2 years ago
Free Public Transit

Our future. - The short future of the human race, as seen by our rulers, requires measures to protect their wealth and power to the end. They have used excess cash cre...
2 years ago
City Block

What would a successful urban NFL stadium look like in DC? - I had started jotting down notes about a new stadium at RFK back in 2015 when Events DC hosted a series of planning meetings about the topic. Parts of this...
2 years ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Good Chart Checklist - Note: this was prepared for my ECON 3403 students, and is a list of all of the mistakes I commonly see in student charts. Please add your suggestions for t...
2 years ago
Planned Densification

On Density - Coming soon.
2 years ago
myurbanist

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: About the Launch - Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character focuses on how to understand the innate identity of an urban place. The book provides a catalog of techniques t...
2 years ago
All About Cities

Here Are A Few Deck Building Ideas For Your Home - Decks are a great way to enhance the beauty of the outdoors while enhancing the value of your home. When constructing a deck, there areRead More
2 years ago
Urbanist.co

The Two Best Ways to Save Money While Living in a City - There’s nothing quite like city life. The contagious energy, endless entertainment opportunities and melting pot of people and cultures make for a fun, u...
2 years ago
Economics of Place

Saginaw Fitness Court is Community Wealth Building in Action - This video out of the City of Saginaw caught our eye in a few ways. First, this new Fitness Court opened looks awesome and the way they did a ribbon cuttin...
2 years ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Not So Fast! Slower Is Often Better - To create more affordable, healthy, equitable, accessible, and resource-efficient communities, planners must reform the way we value speed relative to othe...
2 years ago
Livable Portland

Come celebrate the return of public life in livable cities! - And celebrate the life and legacy of Suzanne Lennard, co-editor of this blog, and the founder of the IMCL. Join us to help share the tools and strategies n...
2 years ago
Urban Workbench

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
2 years ago
WorldWide Wickens

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
3 years ago
YVR Housing

Opposing housing - I think people opposing housing can sometimes get a bad rap. Shadows, parking, overloaded amenities, and “character” (whatever that means), are the stand...
3 years ago
Rebuilding The Rust Belt

Recession And Downfall Of Real Estate Market - The great depression or the recession began to take place in the early start and the mid of the year 2007 in the USA. Some... The post Recession And Down...
3 years ago
Spacing Vancouver

The top hotels with a casino in Vancouver - If you are headed off to Vancouver and are looking for some real casino fun, you could probably have it …
3 years ago
Blinking City

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3 years ago
Andy Boenau

There’s no such thing as multimodal balance - When my sister and I we’re young (elementary school age) we were friends with another brother-sister duo who lived one neighborhood over from ours. We wen...
3 years ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

Selective concern - Between the end of September and the end of November this year, Horsham briefly had a pop-up cycle lane, created in the space of less than a day by the add...
3 years ago
Great Streets San Diego

Business Report: San Diego At Risk For New COVID-19 Restrictions - Health experts warn new restrictions are possible on businesses as COVID-19 case rates rise, the latest jobs report shows another drop in the unemployment ...
3 years ago
New Urbanism Blog

Small Farmhouse Sunrooms: Bright, Beautiful and Relaxing Ideas - There are many different ways in which you can still keep the charm of warm summer months alive in your home. Some do it by turning to styles like coastal ...
3 years ago
5 Kids 1 Condo

We Won! Common Sense Prevails in ‘Bus Dad’ Case. - Today, the BC Court of Appeal released their reasons for judgment in my case against BC’s Ministry of Children & Family Development. In short, the Court al...
3 years ago
The Urbanist

Is public transport the future of our cities? - The pandemic might've reduced the competitiveness of public transport, but it hasn’t altered the main game appreciably – that still remains civilising cars
3 years ago
Urban Food Revolution

Looking for seeds? - Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables
4 years ago
Parksify: Exploring Public Space

Where To Learn Yoga Online - Yoga can be found all over nowadays, especially online on website like yogaburnreviewed.com/. However, this often also means there are lies and a lot of in...
4 years ago
Grandview Heritage Group

GHG Zoom meeting on Thursday, April 16th, 7:00 - Hi dear GHG people, We’re going to try doing a GHG meeting on Zoom this Thursday. If you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to grandviewherit...
4 years ago
Slow Streets

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4 years ago
Yuri Artibise

Co-op Housing Lease Renewals in Vancouver - After years of waiting, the City announced the launch of a discussion paper on co-op housing lease renewals. The paper proposes four scenarios that "aim ...
4 years ago
Yurbanism

Co-op Housing Lease Renewals in Vancouver - After years of waiting, the City announced the launch of a discussion paper on co-op housing lease renewals. The paper proposes four scenarios that "aim ...
4 years ago
Modacity

Fortune Favors the Brave - [image: 1 copy.jpg] *First it was *Ghent*. Then *Birmingham*. And now *Auckland*. 2020 just might be the year of the Traffic Circulation Plan, a policy in...
4 years ago
Guggenheim Blogs

Guggenheim Conservator Jeffrey Warda on Zarina and Her “Drawings Made of Shadow” - [image: Zarina, Untitled, 1977. 20 needle-pierced sheets of laminated paper, approximately 66 x 50.2 cm each. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purc...
4 years ago
Tribeca Trust

2 – Public Memorial Celebration of Oliver E. Allen in Duane Park Next Week - Oliver Allen died last year and is greatly missed in the neighborhood. He was our neighborhood historian – as a retired journalist he wrote a popular month...
4 years ago
The Better Block

Reflections on the Burtonsville Placemaking Festival - The Burtonsville Placemaking Festival was a recurring dream for one particular resident of Montgomery County; in fact, co-Block Captain Sara Jensen could p...
4 years ago
In public space we trust

From security infrastructure scattered in the urban landascape... - From security infrastructure scattered in the urban landascape to urban design in the streets of Beirut: how to take public spaces back by repurposin...
4 years ago
OPEN: design collaborative

City Dreamers -
4 years ago
BldgBlog

Have Clock, Will Travel - [Image: From *The Hunt For Red October*, via Quora]. There’s a throwaway line in *The Hunt For Red October* where a submarine navigator jokes, “Give me a s...
4 years ago
The Original Green | Steve Mouzon

2020 - The Tuscaloosa Astonishment (And What It Means For Towns All Over) *search** the Original Green Blog* I came to Tuscaloosa, Alabama on a gig 16 mo...
5 years ago
At the Helm of the Public Realm

Responsible Development: Please Stop Tearing Down My City - Demolition Sites in Myers Park If you’re like me, you’ve seen these signs popping up all over Charlotte’s neighborhoods. Or you’ll drive through a neighbor...
5 years ago
charly wilder

Photo -
5 years ago
Gordon Price

Canada Line: We got it wrong - Bob Ransford just posted this: When the Canada Line was being planned more than 15 years ago, the public was … Continue reading →
5 years ago
The Urban Observer

Dutch Cycling Culture: Oh How I Miss Thee… - Sometimes a photo is enough. Or in this case, a compilation of photos by @monsieurballard
5 years ago
Small Homes BC Society

Summit Speaker: November newsletter - One more sleep! Our last newsletter before the event. Take a read, and for those coming to the Summit, see you Saturday. The SHBC team
5 years ago
Sean Bickerton

Yellow Orchid - Yellow Orchid: acrylic and pencil on canvas (16″ x 20″) This is the fourth and last canvas I painted this summer. Painting on canvas is new for me and I’m ...
5 years ago
Sound Bite City

Awesome Suggestions For everyone From Overall Rookies To Expert On Music file Downloading - Perhaps you have experienced difficulty downloading music? Would you like to get up to speed when it comes to downloading it music? If these things apply t...
5 years ago
rjohnthebad

Return On Brain Damage -the small developer’s key metric - There’s an old joke. Where does wisdom come from? Experience. Where does experience come from? Lack of wisdom. Real Estate Finance has a lot of technic...
5 years ago
urbanSCALE.com - Resources for Vibrant Cities

20 American Downtowns Being Transformed by Universities - If you could transform your downtown into a more vibrant district with a single strategy, which approach would you pick? The right answer for dozens of c...
5 years ago
Connecting Dots . . .

A Geography of Grieving: Space, Place and Giving Ground to Loss - We move in our communities and help shape them. But we rarely speak of how grieving and loss change how we perceive and connect to places, or how that co...
5 years ago
Vancouver Not Vegas

The German Report should be followed by a full public inquiry into money-laundering - Cartoon on BC casinos and money-laundering by Olson in the Courier, 2011 June 2018 has seen a return of public interest in casino corruption thanks to the ...
5 years ago
John O'Callaghan

MOBILE VENDING AND OUTDOOR MARKETS FEASIBILITY STUDY - JOC Consulting has been commissioned to deliver a Feasibility Research Report on mobile vending and outdoor markets across the Waverley Local Government ...
5 years ago
An Urban Strategist's Musings

Toronto Council needs to take leadership and action on cycling safety - It's the killing field on the streets with the number of cyclist deaths. It must be an election issue. … More Toronto Council needs to take leadership and ...
5 years ago
City Love Blog

Lessons from GC2018 City Presentation - As tourists and residents, the experiences we have in public spaces is what ultimately defines our very opinions of a “good” or “bad” place. The GC2018 ...
5 years ago
Urbium+Orbi

New Urban Realities – AR & VR - Technology is the great economic and societal disruptor, and Virtual Reality (VR) is one of its latest incarnations. What mostly started as a means to crea...
5 years ago
Urbalize

How to lead change in Your City - The Barr Foundation, based in Boston-Massachusetts is one of the most inspiring innovative and active urban change makers we met at the Urban Future Confer...
6 years ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
6 years ago
Urban Scrawl

Pic of the Day: The Evolution of Urban Planning - Urban planning is a surprisingly young professional discipline. It's development over the past century has shaped our everyday lives; what our houses look ...
6 years ago
Buildings are cool

No guts, no glory! - 2018 is going to be a wild year. I am both excited and terrified about 3 new roles I will take on. Despite my fear, I am diving straight in because I emb...
6 years ago
Past Tense

illustratedvancouver: Unpublished draft #2: Here were have an... - Diamond Cabs, Vancouver Illustrated invoice for Diamond Cabs, 1942 Penthouse ad, from the Avon Theatre program, 1954 illustratedvancouver: *Unpublishe...
6 years ago
Richard Campbell

Invest in What People Need Now Not Power That May Never Be Needed – Stop Site C - Below is the personal letter I sent regarding Site C. Managed to connect it to cycling and road safety. If you want to send a similar letter, here are the ...
6 years ago
Urbanthinkers

First blog post - This is the excerpt for your very first post.
6 years ago
Mez Dispenser

A beautiful bike for a beautiful family - Two years ago, our community came together to sponsor a Syrian refuge family. They arrived last autumn and have been slowly adapting to their new home. T...
6 years ago
Just Sustainabilities

Call for Papers: The Cosmopolitan Canopy – Reasserting Difference, Diversity and Inclusion in the age of Trump. - The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Reasserting Difference, Diversity and Inclusion in the age of Trump. American Association of Geographers – Annual Conference, New ...
6 years ago
The Municipal Art Society of New York

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! The post Hello world! appeared first on MAS.
6 years ago
Mountain Doodles

dot-density - I started writing this blog post in December 2015, when CensusMapper quite a bit younger and I hacked together some basic dot-density maps. I never much ...
6 years ago
Own Your City

A Study in Contrast: or, Getting Density Right - Two articles appeared in the Globe and Mail this week that offer an interesting study in contrast. The first, by Alex Bozikovic, explores the new Residenti...
6 years ago
Next City

A Teenage Throwdown Against Evictions, the Graphic Novel... - A Teenage Throwdown Against Evictions, the Graphic Novel Version No Small Plans follows the neighborhood adventures of teens in Chicago’s past, present a...
6 years ago
The Outlaw Urbanist

MORESO | The Vitruvian Oath - A ‘Hippocratic Oath’ for every person (architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, economists, engineers, developers, political leaders, p...
6 years ago
Urban Forum Associates / Lance Berelowitz

The New Paris? - A visit to Paris last year revealed a much-changed city from that which I lived in as a much younger man. Of course, you may say. But, while change itsel...
6 years ago
Geoff Meggs

Rejection of 105 Keefer opened the door to new future for Chinatown, but will anyone walk through? - Yesterday’s 8-3 council vote to reject Beedie Group’s proposal to build a 12-story project at 105 Keefer ended the longest public hearing in a decade, a pr...
6 years ago
Gehl Architects / making cities for people ...

15 motivos para você agradecer por ser baixinha - 1. Quando você é uma pessoa baixinha, pode ver o copo meio vazio ou meio cheio. Até porque em um copo inteiro você pode se afogar. Brincadeirinha. 2. O mun...
6 years ago
smalltownurbanism

The Parklet Project - The Parklet Project was a success! We set up 3 parklets on Main Street and blocked a section of street to create a pop-up plaza last Saturday. The 3 Main S...
6 years ago
planted city

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Ryerson Faculty of Community Services

Making Room for Nature: Eco-villages and the Room for the River Projects, Wet Infrastructure Planning Course, Day 4 - By Andrew Sgro and Christopher Yuen Andrew Sgro and Christopher Yuen are students in their final year of Ryerson’s Master of Planning program. Andrew is f...
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Melissa Fong

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Short-term Consequences

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Streets for Everyone

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Cities Are Good For You

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The New Urban

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Michael Mortensen | Plan the Liveable City

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Mid-Rise Mixed-Use

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Absolute Bollards

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Carnegie Community Action Project

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8 years ago
OpenCity Projects

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Human Transit

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8 years ago
Canadian Institute of Planners

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8 years ago
This Old City

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8 years ago
Nolan Gray

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City Breaths

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8 years ago
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8 years ago
Urban Reality

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9 years ago
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9 years ago
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10 years ago
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Community Builders Group

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SurreySide

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Street Roots

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12 years ago
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America / Vishann Chakrabarti
A Pattern Language — Towns, Buildings, Construction / Christopher Alexander
Accidental City — The Transformation of Toronto / Robert Fulford
Arrival City — The Final Migration and Our Next World / Doug Saunders
At the World's End — Curt Lang's Vancouver 1937-1998 / Claudia Cornwall
Barcelona / Robert Hughes
Barcelona — The Great Enchantress / Robert Hughes
Bicycle Diaries / David Byrne
Cities and the Wealth of Nations — Principles of Economic Life / Jane Jacobs
City Making in Paradise — Nine Decisions That Saved Vancouver / Mike Harcourt & Ken Cameron with Sean Rossiter
Dark Age Ahead / Jane Jacobs
Dream City — Vancouver and the Global Imagination / Lance Berelowitz
Genius of Common Sense — Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Glenna Lang & Marjory Wunsch
Happy City — Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design / Charles Montgomery
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Close Encounters With Addiction / Gabor Maté, M.D.
Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino
Jane Jacobs — Urban Visionary / Alice Sparberg Alexiou
Makeshift Metropolis — Ideas About Cities / Witold Rybcznski
Rebel Cities — From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution / David Harvey
Staphanger — Saving Our Cities and Ourselves From the Automobile / Taras Grescoe
Startup Communities — Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City / Brad Feld
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck
Systems of Survival — A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics / Jane Jacobs
The Battle for Gotham — New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jabobs / Roberta Brandes Gratz
The City After the Automobile — An Architect's Vision / Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn
The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
The Economy of Cities / Jane Jacobs
The Great Reset — How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity / Richard Florida
The Metropolitan Revolution — How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy / Jennifer Bradley, Bruce Katz
The Nature of Economies / Jane Jabobs
The New City — How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation / John Lorinc
The Power Broker — Robert Moses and the Fall of New York / Robert A. Caro
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs / edited by Sonia Hirt and Diane Zahm
The Warhol Economy — How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City / Elizabeth Currid
Thoughts on Building Strong Towns (Volume 1) / Charles L. Marohn, Jr. PE AICP
Triumph of the City — How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier / Edward Glaeser
Urban Nation: Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong / Alan Broadbent
Urban Planning For Dummies / Jordan Yin
Walkable City — How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time / Jeff Speck
Walking Home — The Life and Lessons of a City Builder / Ken Greenberg
Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller — Oil and the End of Globalization / Jeff Rubin
Wrestling with Moses : How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City / Anthony Flint

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Childhood Memories of the Downtown Eastside

Childhood Memories of the
Downtown Eastside