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Ephemeral New York

In praise of long-gone, one of a kind New York City restaurants like the Viennese Lantern - I’d never heard of the Viennese Lantern until I stumbled upon this postcard. But the colors and the sketches made me curious about an era when restaurants ...
5 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

Endurance & Joy At The Museum Of The Home - . This could never have happened without the astonishing generosity of the 500 people who contributed to the two crowd funds which made it possible. It has...
10 hours ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

BC community groups jointly urge candidates to prioritize treatment, recovery, and safety in policies (call4change.ca campaign) - In the context of the current BC Provincial Election (final voting day Oct 19), we are sharing this joint media release dated October 10, 2024, from these ...
10 hours ago
Architect This City

How much is development land worth? - As we have talked about many times before, the best answer to this question is that it’s worth whatever money is left in your pro forma once you’ve account...
16 hours ago
Pedestrian Observations

Amtrak Doubles Down on False Claims About Regional Rail History to Attack Through-Running - Amtrak just released its report a week and a half ago, saying that Penn Expansion, the project to condemn the Manhattan block south of Penn Station to add ...
1 day ago
ATL Urbanist

I love this building on Wylie Street next to the BeltLine in Reynoldstown. Look at the beautiful… - atlantathecity: I love this building on Wylie Street next to the BeltLine in Reynoldstown. Look at the beautiful brick details on the facade. It dates to...
1 day ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Boys & Coils: 1910s - The Philadelphia Pipe Bending Company, founded in 1880, is still in operation today. Here we see two workers standing inside some large coils with advertis...
2 days ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Business of the Month: Garber Hardware, 710 Greenwich Street - Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwi...
2 days ago
Smart Growth America

Now hiring: Senior Manager, Advocacy - Smart Growth America (SGA) is seeking a Senior Manager with 5-7 years of experience to advance policy solutions that will lead to more much-needed housin...
2 days ago
Witold Rybczynski

BACK TO THE FUTURE - A friend asked me what I thought of the design of the recently unveiled Tesla Cybercab. The BBC website called the car “futuristic-looking,” perhaps beca...
2 days ago
City Observatory

The Interstate Bridge Project’s Flawed Traffic Data - The Interstate Bridge Replacement Project simply can’t tell the truth about current traffic levels or recent growth rates. IBR reports inflate the current ...
2 days ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Death of former Washington Post columnist Roger Lewis - Roger Lewis was an architect and consultant on community design matters, and professor at the University of Maryland. The way most anyone has heard of ...
3 days ago
The Pop-Up City

Parking Spaces Reimagined: The Pop-Up Parking Service Brings Creative Parklets to Your Street - What would your street look like without cars, but with an outdoor cinema, a sauna, or even a playground? In Utrecht, RAUM is making this a reality with th...
3 days ago
The South Fraser Blog

October 17th, 10:17 am: The Great BC ShakeOut - [image: Drop!, Cover!, Hold On!] When I was in elementary school, I remember we had "earthquake dots." These dots were the direction we were supposed to ...
3 days ago
urban75 blog

A rainy night in London: South Bank brutalism, Covent Garden lights and central London in 30 photos - October has been producing plenty of rainy days and nights in London, and here’s a sequence of photos taken during a walk from the South Bank up through ...
4 days ago
TED Blog

The Audacious Project reveals its 2024 cohort - The Audacious Project supports big ideas to foster change around the world’s most urgent challenges. Today, this innovative funding initiative, housed at T...
4 days ago
Changing Vancouver

2409 Main Street - The Main Street part of this retail store and apartments (the part that’s in this image) were developed in 1910 by J B Mathers, who hired A J Bird to desig...
5 days ago
Klaustoon's Blog

Klaus: Chicago Tour 2024 - Click to Enlarge So, from today to next Sunday, I will be once again in Chicago, presenting ‘Welcome to Tribuneville’, my current video installation at the...
6 days ago
Urbanism Speakeasy

Ask uncomfortable questions knowing you might find unpopular answers - The louder the conformists sneer and heckle, the better you’re doing.
1 week ago
Municipal Dreams

Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part Two - Last week and this, I’m very pleased to feature this interview between my good friend Thaddeus Zupančič and the esteemed … Continue reading →
1 week ago
Meeting of the Minds

31.6% Efficient Perovskite Silicon Tandem Solar Cell by Fraunhofer ISE - The post 31.6% Efficient Perovskite Silicon Tandem Solar Cell by Fraunhofer ISE appeared first on Energy Theory.
2 weeks ago
The Mainlander

Trans Liberation & No More Drug War: Statement - None of us are free until all of us are free. At the core of our vision is […]
3 weeks ago
Howard Blackson

A City Hall Worthy of San Diego - Let’s Rethink City Hall… and put it back on our waterfront! Let’s show our civic pride in reconnecting the city to our great bay! And all of these IQHQ bui...
3 weeks ago
Howard Blackson

A City Hall Worthy of San Diego - Let’s Rethink City Hall… and put it back on our waterfront! Let’s show our civic pride in reconnecting the city to our great bay! And all of these IQHQ bui...
3 weeks ago
AuthentiCity

Just Encased: A Spotlight on the Conservation Treatment and Digitization of Cased Photographs - Cased photograph is a term used to describe a class of photographs popularized in the mid-19th century that includes daguerreotypes, ...
4 weeks ago
Opticos Design

Over a Decade of Work in Hawai’i - [image: Kauai General Plan Strategy] Reflecting back, we’ve compiled a history of our work in Hawai’i and the impact it has had on current residents and co...
4 weeks ago
Michael Geller's Blog

Designing for pets. Designing with plants. Making balconies more delightful. Vancouver Sun September 7, 2024 - This past weekend, the Vancouver Sun featured an article I wrote about a forthcoming design competition being sponsored by a non-profit organization kno...
4 weeks ago
Ciudad Saludable

The generation of healthy public space in Mexico City: two case studies of citizen management for walkability - The decline of health in public space in Mexico City (CDMX) includes a lack of walkability in sidewalks; the pedestrian mobility is poor. Enduring decay, t...
4 weeks ago
Mid-Rise Mixed-Use

These sticky sesame wings are a delicious blend of sweet and savory flavors, perfect for a party… - These sticky sesame wings are a delicious blend of sweet and savory flavors, perfect for a party appetizer or a satisfying dinner. The sticky glaze made ...
5 weeks ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

TEDxVictoria: The True Cost of Construction - Michael Green’s latest TED talk at TEDxVictoria explores the far-reaching effects of construction on our communities and how we need to rethink how we calc...
5 weeks ago
mssinenomineblog

I ❤️HandyDART Drivers – Why We Need Both HandyDART and Accessible Public Transit - This post was originally published many years ago – 2014 I believe. I am republishing it in solidarity with HandyDart drivers and Amalgamated Transit Union...
5 weeks ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

AirBnb can be really useful sometimes - [image: A quiet residential street in Northampton, Massachusetts with wooden 2 and a half story houses along it] In the past several years I've seen a num...
1 month ago
This City Life

Urban Renewal: How Simple Acts and Third Spaces can Reconnect Our Communities - Hi everyone! It’s been a while, but I’m back with a new post to launch the Urban Renewal...
1 month ago
Home: Free Sociology!

Distributional effects of adding housing - Co-authored with Jens von Bergmann and cross-posted at MountainMath Who would benefit from dramatically expanding the supply of housing in the market? How ...
1 month ago
Urban Demographics

Finalist in the Academic Jabuti Award - The Jabuti award is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Brazil. The award includes a broad range of categories, and this year they have creat...
2 months ago
Average Joe Cyclist

Traboulay PoCo Trail in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada - [image: Complete bike training plan - You will find this plan easy to follow - and along the way, you might just have some great experiences!]The Traboul...
2 months ago
MetroVanWatch

Info tracker on B.C. housing legislation (Bills 44, 46, 47): Responses and impacts in Metro Vancouver and beyond - [Published 11-Jul-2024. This page will be updated regularly.] MetroVanWatch is launching this info tracker page as a public service to help readers access ...
3 months ago
BCRobyn

Why British pub culture doesn’t exist in Vancouver - There is no British pub culture in Vancouver. There never has been. I’m not saying Vancouver lacks pubs that look like English pubs and serve English foo...
3 months ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Slot The Tweety House: Menangkan Besar dan Rasakan Serunya Bermain! - Converseshoes.in.net – Slot The Tweety House hadir untuk memberikan pengalaman bermain slot yang mengasyikkan dan..
3 months ago
City Beautiful 21

Carrboro to Charge for 21% of Downtown Parking Spaces: 79% to Remain Free - Downtown Carrboro has over 3,600 parking spaces. The Town owns roughly 700 public spaces, and this week the town released plans to begin charging for parki...
3 months ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Alaska, Washington Tribes condemn BC’s flawed consultation policy - This blog post will be a copy of the Press Release received today from prnewswire. The release is too long to be cut and pasted into a thread on Mastodon, ...
4 months ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Architecture’s role in empowering LGBTTQ+ community - By Brent Bellamy, Senior Design Architect and Creative Director Earlier this month, an emotional groundbreaking ceremony was held in Ottawa for Thunderhe...
4 months ago
Geoff Boeing

OSMnx 2.0 Beta - OSMnx v2.0.0 is targeted for release later in 2024. This major release includes some breaking changes (including removing previously deprecated functionali...
5 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

Mayor Ken Sim’s press conference at Little Mountain on April 25, 2024 - Here’s Ken Sim’s PR about Little Mountain as shared on the City of Vancouver’s web site: https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/groundbreaking-on-little-mounta...
5 months 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'...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
7 months 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 ...
7 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...
8 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...
8 months ago
Rebel Metropolis

무료로 유튜브 영상을 다운로드 하는 간단한 비법 소개 - 아래에서는 무료로 유튜브 영상을 다운로드할 수 있는 간단한 비법들을 알려드리겠습니다.
8 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...
9 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...
11 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...
11 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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.
3 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...
3 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
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Urban Workbench

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
3 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...
4 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
4 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
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...
5 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

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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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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 ...
7 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.
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
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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...
7 years ago
planted city

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the..." - “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss...
7 years ago
Business of Heritage

King of Kitsch: So long Honest Ed’s - I experienced the garish atmosphere one last time before the store closes for good on December 31, 2016. As usual, Honest Ed’s didn’t disappoint. Read more
7 years ago
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...
7 years ago
Melissa Fong

When your friend is a rapist/ someone you know is accused of sexual assault - In response to the open letter penned/signed by many public intellectuals/writers on the Steven Galloway case…. (see here for story) and my general disappo...
7 years ago
Short-term Consequences

Link to my thesis: Short-term consequences: Investigating the nature, extent and rental housing implications of Airbnb listings in Vancouver - I defended my thesis on September 8, 2016 and have now uploaded the document to the SFU Library, where it is available online. Short-term Consequences: Inv...
7 years ago
South End Community Association

Termimal Nicol Re-Imagined - Over the past year we’ve had an opportunity to hear from many community members during the Terminal Nicol Re-imagined process. Thank you to everyone who h...
7 years ago
Streets for Everyone

City of Vancouver Releases Commercial Drive Intercept Survey Results - Some highlights: Over 80% of people surveyed on Commercial Drive sidewalks arrived on foot, bike, or transit (11% biked and 44% walked) People walking, c...
7 years ago
CitySpot

THE CASE FOR HOMELESSNESS - Homelessness is a widely misunderstood and stigmatized concept. Most understand homelessness to be unkempt people, often men, living on the street. The bro...
8 years ago
City Motions

"When it comes to cities, because of the advances in engineering and construction technology in..." - “When it comes to cities, because of the advances in engineering and construction technology in recent decades, the process of deciding what to build and w...
8 years ago
Cities Are Good For You

Summer, 1666 - ‘Certainly this year of 1666 will be a great year of action, but what the consequence of it will be, God Knows,’(1) Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary at the ...
8 years ago
Car Free Baltimore

Getting Around Baltimore, Car-Free! - When you are living in the city, having no car is a minor inconvenience, or is it? I come from Dallas, where you need a car to go anywhere. Every place in ...
8 years ago
The New Urban

Ideal City: Laws of the Indies - Asunción Mita, Guatemala [video] - The Laws of the Indies, or *Las Leyes de los Indios*, dictated the Spanish colonies of the Hispanic Americas. These laws directives provided guideance as ...
8 years ago
Reviewanew

Sing Street: a guest movie review! - Reviewanew has been mainly about cities. But it was always intended to review anything, so this one is about a [...] Read more.
8 years ago
Michael Mortensen | Plan the Liveable City

Should AirBNB and VRBO homes be eligible for Capital Gains Exemptions? - The impact of online daily home booking websites like AirBnB and VRBO on Vancouver’s tight residential rental market appears to be significant and has attr...
8 years ago
the city

Download Clash of Clans Mod - Clash Royale Hack is very popular in the world of mobile phones among the players. The game is available on the Internal Control Department and Android p...
8 years ago
Active Transport for Cities

10 Tools to Tackle Most Any City’s Downtown Traffic and Parking Problems - This post is taken from a discussion given at The Last Stand Neighborhood Forum on Transportation and Affordable Housing on June 9, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at th...
8 years ago
City Drawings + Stories — Drawn to cities

Unique Homes - Influential Apartments and Townhouses, Melbourne - Some of Melbourne's unique apartments and townhouses have shaped the way in which we think about housing, and the Robin Boyd Foundation's open day on Sun...
8 years ago
Absolute Bollards

Kodi Download : Computer, iOS Devices & APK Android - Kodi App Download : You might own been told of showbox iphone app to see videos and television set displays internet. Kodi iOS Download For Android os us...
8 years ago
Carnegie Community Action Project

BC housing announcement mostly spin and little substance - Yesterday, Feb 12th 2016, the BC government announced that it would spend $355 million over the next 5 years to build up to 2000 “affordable” housing units...
8 years ago
OpenCity Projects

Shepard Fairey’s Earth Crisis - Shepard Fairey unveiled his latest street art installation, dubbed “Earth Crisis.” The large sphere dangling between the first and second floors of the Eif...
8 years ago
Human Transit

Christchurch: A New Transit Hub - It's almost five years since Christchurch, New Zealand was devastated by the February 2011 earthquake. A new downtown is under construction in the blocks j...
8 years ago
Canadian Institute of Planners

Imagining a Bigger Role for CIP by Glenn Miller FCIP - A few years I ago I prepared a brief for the Fellows on the American Planning Association (APA). At the time, I suggested that CIP could benefit from the...
8 years ago
JA Studio

Ja Architecture Studio’s Presentation at Pechakucha | Vol. 34 - This is our presentation for pechakucha volume 34, City Builder’s event. What they asked ask, “What have you done for Toronto lately?”
8 years ago
Narrow Streets SF

Paseos de San Francisco - If you’re into people-centric streets, this year’s mayoral election has an interesting candidate in Reed Martin. On his website Grand SF he lays out a vi...
8 years ago
This Old City

Drexel engineering professor breaks out scare tactics on Open Streets PHL - As the groundswell of public and official support for Open Streets PHL continues to build, the Philadelphia Inquirer publishes a new article putting Philly...
9 years ago
Nolan Gray

Video Game Urbanism: What can we learn from virtual cities? - On any given day, millions of people across the globe leave work and rush through real cities on their commute home only spend Continue reading →
9 years ago
City Breaths

The Haussmannisation of Amsterdam - [image: image] *In the midst of central Amsterdam’s gentrification wave a luxury department store has been given the name of the ruthless 19th century Pa...
9 years ago
urban studies / Francisco Mota

exotericenvironmentalism: Cars: Do they provide... - exotericenvironmentalism: Cars: Do they provide personal/societal freedom or dependency? Sourced from an Analysis of Public Policies That Unintentionally...
9 years ago
Per Square Mile

When all Japan's a Tokyo suburb - Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, reporting for the Guardian: The bullet train has sucked the country’s workforce into Tokyo, rendering an increasingly h...
9 years ago
Urban Reality

Cycling Lessons Learned From Amsterdam That No One Talks About - I recently had the honour of visiting Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a city where 48% of all trips made in the city centre are made by bicycle. A total of 78% of ...
9 years ago
Live Small, Think Small, Build Small

A Small Sanctuary in Point Grey – Our Latest Modern Home - Our latest project is a modern build, perched amid the expansive hills of Point Grey. Sleek, elegant and crowning what is usually one of Vancouver’s more...
9 years ago
Stroad to Boulevard

A view of northbound E Street on Tuesday, December 23, 2014... - A view of northbound E Street on Tuesday, December 23, 2014 after the sbX bus system was installed in San Bernardino, Ca. (Photo by Micah Escamilla/The S...
9 years ago
Streetmixology

A graphical update! - Today, we’re excited to be rolling out some graphical tweaks to Streetmix that have been in our queue for quite some time now. First up: the width of our...
9 years ago
At Home in Providence

Neither Fall nor Winter - New England is blessed with four distinct seasons, each so beautiful it’s hard to pick a favorite—although our autumns are particularly spectacular. Even t...
9 years ago
Urban Studies SFU

Teaser: Democracy, Governance, and Metro Vancouver - With a municipal election in the recent past, the implications of returning or newly elected leadership at the local government level is still top of mind ...
9 years ago
66 Feet

Building Subways has Never Been Easy - Toronto is currently undergoing a tumultuous debate about the future of its transit network. Council has debated, approved, and reviewed decisions on Trans...
9 years ago
Switchboard: NRDC — Kaid Benfield's Blog

New guide from ASLA highlights urban green, literally, in Portland - Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions, Washington, DC: As many readers know, I am a huge fan of the American Society of Landscape Architects...
9 years ago
StreetTalk

When One Story Makes Sense - Most sustainably great places started with one story buildings. This example comes from Portland, OR. A quiet crisis is emerging in our building practice...
9 years ago
Walkable Dallas-Fort Worth

Misdirection - If perhaps today at some point you type in walkabledfw.com and it pings you somewhere else, that's because for the foreseeable future this blog will be on ...
10 years ago
NoMeanCity — Contemporary Architecture and Design

Hiatus - This blog has been on hiatus for a while now – essentially since I became The Globe and Mail’s architecture critic last year. I will continue to write fo...
10 years ago
Volgens Leonie

Thema 5: Amsterdam; magneet voor handelaren & hipsters - Amsterdam is bezig met het herprofileren van de stad op de internationale markt. Enerzijds als toeristische bestemming, anderzijds als vestigingslocatie vo...
10 years ago
Hastings-Sunrise, Vancouver

The adventures of Procrastination and the spiral of doom (plus tips and tricks to overcome it) - Talkin’ bout procrastination. Maybe it’s the season. As summer ends and the weather gets cooler and shittier, we are reminded of our goals yet to be accomp...
10 years ago
City Fabrick

Walking the Walk - Recently, the City of Long Beach received a grant from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority [LA Metro] to develop a pedestrian mast...
10 years ago
Flâneur To Planner

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED! - Please go to Serendipcity, where the site has found a new home. Thank you!
10 years ago
Visiopolis

Visiopolis getting new! - Visiopolis is getting new! Our blog activity is being expended in the hands of corresponding urban planners, urban designers, architects and academicians i...
10 years ago
Andrew Trevor Jones

Main Street Station Redesign – June 2014 - I was interviewed this week for ‘On The Move’, a weekly column featured on CBC Early Edition, about the renovations Continue reading →
10 years ago
polis

A Tramway Arrives in Casablanca - *by Cristiana Strava* As Morocco’s largest city and business center, Casablanca suffers from infernal traffic congestion, related air pollution and insuffi...
10 years ago
UrbanPeek

Pop Icons Placed into Vintage Ads - David Redon, art director from Paris, France, mixed some great old American advertisement with modern singers and musicians under title “Ads Libitum”. His ...
10 years ago
Vancouver Public Space Network Blog

We’re moving over to the new VPSN website! - …and lift-off! After lots of meetings, oodles of design discussions and lots and lots of coding, writing and all-around tinkering, our brand-new VPSN websi...
10 years ago
Ignite Nanaimo

Team #1 and the $100 Startup: Conclusion - We missed our team mates that couldn't make it, but 5 of us had more great conversation at Fibber McGees. Now that we have all finished reading the book...
10 years ago
Walkable and Livable Communities Institute

‘No Finer Place for Sure’ – Go Downtown - Posted on 01/16/2014 by The Livable Communities Team | AARP Education and Outreach GREAT PLACES If you’re a baby boomer, the word “downtown” — and espec...
10 years ago
Rebar Design Studio

SOAK hits Kickstarter – you can get a piece of the action - First let’s get to the big news: a Rebar design that has been under wraps for over a year is now public and it’s on Kickstarter. (It’s the first Rebar proj...
10 years ago
MapGrapher

Estimating Tree Canopy Cover for Two Urban Neighborhoods in Louisville - We’ve been thinking about trees a lot in Louisville recently, especially in light of recent research highlighting Louisville as a city experiencing signifi...
10 years ago
SUNN: Vancouver Historic Quartiers

Communities Join Together - City Hall is applying the wrong planning paradigm in Norquay, DTES, Mount Pleasant, Marpole, Granview-Woodland, and West End according to the neighbours. T...
11 years ago
chasing home

designing with a tree inside - At our cottage, there was a hope and a dream to honour a canoe birch (paper white birch) by installing it within the interior. The tree was miraculously fo...
11 years ago
Urban Submarine

Transitional Christchurch - Public Art - So as you are all probably well aware I am doing my planning thesis on the transitional temporary uses that have happened in Christchurch in response to th...
11 years ago
Feargus O'Sullivan

‘Get Lost, You Little Bastard’: Brussels and Paris Locked in a Hilarious Insult Throwdown - Is the capital of the EU really just Europe’s capital of ugly? French writers say yes; Brussels fires back.
11 years ago
Community Builders Group

Community Builders Development - Community Builders Network (CBN) houses 250 at-risk persons in four privately-funded Whole Life Housing SROs in Vancouver. Whole Life Housing is cost-effe...
11 years ago
From BK to BXL

From BK to BXL to Sound Bite City - If you came to this URL, you’re probably looking for “"From BK to BXL." All of the content previously found on From BK to BXL can now be found at Sound ...
11 years ago
SurreySide

Surrey transportation: Two tweets of serious interest - Two items of note from today’s Metro Vancouver transportation committee, both delivered via twitter. 25% diversion from Port Mann Bridge to Pattullo accord...
11 years ago
Street Roots

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11 years ago
Fine Young Urbanists

Hipsterzines - Looking for fresh thoughts on architecture or graphic inspiration? Archizines is a collection of...
11 years ago
PlaceShakers and NewsMakers

Happy Labor Day - Placemaking begins with hearts and minds, but is never actually realized without the toil of human hands. Today we rest, honoring the back-breaking labor t...
12 years ago
Belonging Community

Gentrification signifiers: A story of one neighbourhood - When two grandmothers stopped on my street recently to tell me their adult children had bought a nearby house, I didn’t tell them why the young family who ...
12 years ago
Vancouver Street Stories

Discover Vancouver’s Past & Present - A group of neighbours have put together a unique celebration of their community’s history. Vancouver Street Stories has begun as…
12 years ago
Mental Planners

Spatial Planning in DIT - I recently made this brochure for my course, spatial planning, with the purpose of highlighting what the course is and why someone would want to do it or g...
12 years ago
Frances Bula

Province funds new winter-shelter beds — but not the ones city asked for - Another strange winter of tussling between the city and province over funding winter-shelter beds. As my story here outlines, the province is going to open...
12 years ago
Daring To Be Seen | Sandra Maxey

On Mere Belonging, Tricksters and Jon Cropper’s Ghost: Reflections on the First #DisruptU Chat - “I’m blown away by the numbers who are in similar boat. And it’s all over headlines, disrupting Wall St, uprisings in Middle East, I feel like a fractal… ”...
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Reading LIst

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

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Exciting New Public Space at the
New Strip Mall in Downtown Nanaimo

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