The Sidewalk Ballet: Mike Klassen in the Courier — Give Neighbourhoods the Tools for Change

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Mike Klassen in the Courier —
Give Neighbourhoods the Tools for Change

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Artful Nudging: Ideas for Overcoming Resistance to Change - Much thanks to all those who commented and provided additions to my 10 Principles of Great Transit Planning post. One interesting response that came in ...
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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Short-term Consequences

Response to the City of Vancouver’s proposed approach to regulating short-term rentals - Below are the written remarks I gave today at city hall – actually a slightly longer version because I crossed out a few things just before speaking in ord...
8 years ago
Business of Heritage

Remai Modern promises an authentic community-building experience - What does the Remai Modern have in common with the nearby Farmers' Market? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Read more
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
City Love Blog

Designing Museums & Cities - “How does an urban designer end up running a dinosaur exhibition?!” This was definitely a question I had asked myself while working on the Lost Creatures e...
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
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
BldgBlog

The Sky-Math Garden - [image: espy] [Images: Via Peter Moore’s piece on “dueling weathermen” over at *Nautilus* ]. As mentioned in the previous post, I recently had the pleasure o...
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
Cities Are Good For You

The difference between observing and measuring the City - One way to divide up the sheep and goats of the Urbanist community is to divide them up between those who learnt the city by observation, watching the city...
8 years ago
The New Urban

- Before cars mothers would let their children outside to play in the city. I saw this painting for sale and it reminded me that my great-grandparents use...
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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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?”
9 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...
9 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
Planned Densification

SEEKING THE MARKET - By Mark Smith – Fundamental cause missing in sprawl literature – – Fixed assets in changing markets – – Chronic sprawl is in part market inefficiency – –...
9 years ago
PlannerDan

Greetings From Fresno! - *(Source: Fresno Bee)* Hello, Internet! I'm still alive! If you follow this blog, you may be wondering why I abruptly stopped writing. Well, after my l...
9 years ago
CitySpot

ON COMPLETE STREETS - The road is frequented by a variety of users – drivers, public transit vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians. However, as each of these users, there are many...
9 years ago
Richard Campbell

Batemyth Busters: 40 Centuries to Fund Mayors Transportation Plan with CTF Waste - Brad Cavanagh has done a great job of shredding a key premise of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s slick expensive looking new website notranslinktax.ca ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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
polis

A Space That Is Not the Battlefield - *by Patrick Sykes* The dust is settling on Shura City, yet not a single brick has been laid. Since this proposal for a drone-proof city emerged, its creato...
10 years ago
Vancouver Not Vegas

Success! Adriane Carr’s Casino Motion B4 passes unanimously! - Wednesday July 23 was a great day for us at Vancouver City Council! Councillor Adriane Carr (Greens) achieved something really substantial in getting her c...
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
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
Municipal Dreams

Keeling House, Bethnal Green: ‘We loved living in our crumbling tower block’ - A few weeks ago, Keeling House in Bethnal Green featured in BBC2’s Great Interior Design Challenge. Its presenter Tom Dyckhoff paid due homage to the buil...
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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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
Fine Young Urbanists

Local Shift - Old news, but good news — we’re accepting applications to this year’s summer school «Local Shift»....
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

Please visit us at news.streetroots.org - We have moved to http://news.streetroots.org –please come visit us at our new home. Sincerely, Street Roots Dec. 21, 2012 Advertisements
12 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
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...
13 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… ”...
13 years ago
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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