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Meeting of the Minds

Autonomous Vehicles and Roads: An Emerging Relationship - Is it out of the realm of possibility that the privatization that happened with other critical infrastructure in prior years in the US could also happen wi...
2 hours ago
Free Public Transit

Communists say beware of liberals - PLP : "While the likes of Putin and Viktor Orban—or Racist-in-Chief Donald Trump—are obvious harbingers of fascism, the greatest danger to the working clas...
3 hours ago
Smart Growth America

Local elected leaders in DC to boost the prosperity of First and Main - Yesterday a group of more than 30 elected local leaders from across the country carried a clear and unified message up to Capitol Hill on behalf of the F...
7 hours ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Mommy's Little Soldier: 1939 - February 1939. "In a carrot pullers' camp, Imperial Valley, California, near Holtville. Women from Broken Bow, Oklahoma." Medium format negative by Dorothe...
7 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

Bluebells At Bow Cemetery - With a few bluebells in flower in my garden in Spitalfields, I was inspired make a visit to Bow Cemetery and view the display of bluebells sprouting under ...
10 hours ago
Architect This City

Assortative mating at elite colleges - When demographers talk about how educated a city or place is, they often refer to the percentage of the population with a 4-year college degree. This may...
11 hours ago
Urban Demographics

When the deadline is close and you need to finish that manuscript - This is how I feel my PhD thesis looks like right now. image source: reddit
13 hours ago
TED Blog

Calling all social entrepreneurs + nonprofit leaders: Apply for The Audacious Project - Creating wide-scale change isn’t easy. It takes incredible passion around an issue, and smart ideas on how to move the needle and, hopefully, improve peopl...
13 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

When Was the Cornerstone Placed of St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church? - Standing diagonally on its lot at the intersection of East 10th Street, Stuyvesant Street, and 2nd Avenue, St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery is the oldest sit...
15 hours ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines - I took this photo back in 2009, when I lived in Richmond. Much more recently, we were checking out the improvements that have been made to the seawall arou...
15 hours ago
Gordon Price

Paul Wong and Occupying Chinatown - On April 22, the City of Vancouver formally apologized for the historical discrimination against Vancouver residents of Chinese descent. This … Continue re...
16 hours ago
Jak's View of Vancouver v.3

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16 hours ago
Urbium+Orbi

‘Rising’ Seafronts – climate change and human landscapes - I must confess that I have a morbid fascination for dystopian urban environments and fantasy architecture, even when I would rather not have to live in the...
19 hours ago
The South Fraser Blog

April 23, 2018 Council Meeting Notes: Downtown Saturday farmers market starting up, and redevelopment continues - Several groups presented information at Monday night’s Langley City council meeting. There were also several zoning bylaws that continued their progress ...
20 hours ago
urban75 blog

Newcastle photos: bridges, graffiti, bars, pigeon fanciers, night views and The Monochrome Set, April 2018 - I had the good fortune to be able to visit the grand citty of Newcastle earlier this month, and although the trip was exceedingly short, I still managed to...
1 day ago
The Pop-Up City

Floating Trashbot Turns River Cleanup Into An Online Game - Environmental startup Urban Rivers is building a river-cleaning trashbot that can be remotely controlled over the Internet by anyone, turning the cleanin...
1 day ago
Ombú

ATRIUM - JUSSIEU UNIVERSITYDesigned by Périphériques architectes... - *ATRIUM - JUSSIEU UNIVERSITY* Designed by Périphériques architectes - Jumeau + Marin + Trotin. Photos By Franck Bohbot and Archello
1 day ago
Come here to me!

Dublin Well Woman Centre picket (1978) - In January 1978, the Dublin Well Woman Centre opened its fifth clinic in the city at 63 Lower Leeson Street under the directorship of Anne Connolly. The ai...
1 day ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Arbor Day - http://www.alansfactoryoutlet.com/52-types-of-wood-and-the-trees-they-come-from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/11/price-urban-trees-chai...
1 day ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Are the returns to university education falling? - Prices are determined by supply and demand. The supply of university-educated Canadians, relative to the supply of college or high school graduates, is inc...
1 day ago
Pedestrian Observations

The MTA’s Bus Redesign Plan - Two weeks ago I wrote about the Brooklyn bus redesign I’m working on with Eric Goldwyn. The MTA, which is aware of our efforts, came up with its own plan. ...
1 day ago
City Observatory

Dow of Cities: Big data on the urban price premium - Zillow’s data tracking prices of tens of millions of US homes adds further confirmation to the Dow of Cities For some time, we’ve been talking about the Do...
1 day ago
rethink urban

Ten Voices: An Innovation Story of Downtown Victoria - This story is a creative output of an Applied Research Project submitted to Cape Breton University, the final requirement of a degree in Master of Business...
1 day ago
Guggenheim Blogs

“It Just Sparks Joy”: Things Children Can Tell You about Art - [image: "Student docents" eagerly volunteer to participate in role-playing exercises. Photo: Ian-Duncan Ball] Young students in the Guggenheim's Learning ...
1 day ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

Complacency - The Netherlands is a wonderful country to cycle around, with a dense cycle network made up of motor traffic-free paths, low motor traffic access roads, and...
1 day ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Developing the Inclusive City Centre: Frankfurt am Main - We are off on another adventure in our Frankfurt Urban Development series. After discussing the cycling infrastructure, car centered streets and the car sa...
2 days ago
Municipal Dreams

Nissen-Petren Houses: ‘Not obnoxious and the people would be delighted to pay an economic rent’ - If you’ve travelled along the A303 in Somerset, you may have noticed, like many thousands of others since the mid-1920s, … Continue reading →
2 days ago
Average Joe Cyclist

Garmin Edge 520 vs. Wahoo ELEMNT - [image: Garmin Edge 520 vs Wahoo Elemnt. Both the Wahoo ELEMNT and the Garmin Edge 520 are premium bike computers that offer an impressive range of featu...
2 days ago
Born to Walk

River race - I’ve always been a solo traveller. Whether walking, running, cross-country skiing or paddling, I typically prefer being out in nature alone with my thought...
2 days ago
Changing Vancouver

Richards and Davie Street – se corner - Here’s the north end of the 1200 block of Richards Street, which today houses the Choices supermarket – one of the earliest food stores to open in the old ...
2 days ago
Austin On Your Feet

Dockless scooters: the revolution is ours if we want it - We are on the verge of an urban revolution. A new device has revolutionized how we travel, making cars obsolete. Cities are going to re-architect themselve...
2 days ago
ATL Urbanist

atlantathecity: Downtown Atlanta’s Zero Mile Post offers a... - atlantathecity: Downtown Atlanta’s Zero Mile Post offers a chance to right some historical wrongs Other than basically keeping it standing, we haven’t ...
2 days ago
Ephemeral New York

Emptying the ash barrels on a tenement block - It was a dirty job, but someone had to do it. Sidewalks in late 19th century New York were lined with ash barrels—where people dumped the ashes from their ...
3 days ago
Witold Rybczynski

THE HIGH COST OF HIGH TECH - The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the Comcast Technology Center is running $67 million over budget. The 60-story Technology Center (Foster + Partners)...
3 days ago
Grandview Heritage Group

Meeting Notes: April 2018 - It was another lively meeting last Thursday, with a wide range of topics discussed. After introductions, Eric took us through a 1967 Beaver Kit houses broc...
4 days ago
Tribeca Trust

We’re back, with News from Tribeca Trust - In this issue: Update on our lawsuit The Chair of the LPC Resigns! Tribeca Trust Shrinks Cape Advisor’s Overgrown Building on West Broadway Save the Dates ...
5 days ago
AuthentiCity

On the hunt for 2116 Maple Street: A house history expedition – Part 3: City Directories - The final part of hunting for information about 2116 Maple Street, after looking at fire insurance maps, water records, building permit registers, and phot...
6 days ago
This City Life

This Earth Day, Let’s Put an End to Single-Use Plastics - [image: image] As Earth Day approaches, I have been thinking a lot about single-use plastic, specifically how I use it and how I can use less of it. Plasti...
6 days ago
The Corner Side Yard

CSY At Forbes: Maybe Chicago Doesn't Need Amazon's HQ2 - Source: chicagotribune.com *(Note: this was originally posted at my Forbes site in March. -Pete)* Amazon's search for its ultimate HQ2 location is drawing...
6 days ago
Market Urbanism

Up close and personal - One of the popular sports broadcasts I used to watch as a kid promised interviews with athletes that would bring them to you “up close and personal.” As ...
6 days ago
John O'Callaghan

‘Art and About Sydney’ Assessment Panel - At JOC Consulting we’re passionate about embedding creativity throughout our engagement and strategic projects. We’re also big advocates for urban explor...
1 week ago
Urbanist.co

How to stay cool in summer while still saving money - While we’ve had a wild batch of April weather in many parts of the country, it seems that spring may finally be here. Maybe. For the sake of this article...
1 week ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Will Councillor Hector Bremner recuse himself from vote on changes to liquor bylaws at April 17 (Tues) Public Hearing? Potential conflict of interest? - Who is he working for — Vancouver citizens? Or his corporate clients? City Councillor Hector Bremner is hoping to be chosen as the NPA’s mayoral candidate ...
1 week ago
Slow Streets

Prompt Your City For Better Physical and Psychological Well Being - By Darren Proulx The minute we walk out our front door we are influenced by a world that is too complex for our brains to handle. According to Daniel Kahne...
1 week ago
Economics of Place

Placemaking, Crowdfunding and Community Engagement - This is what we had in mind. A few years back my colleagues and I were asked by Chris Miller to shepherd a bill through the Michigan legislature that wou...
1 week ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Transmillennial NYC? - A while back I was arguing with someone about "Bus Rapid Transit," and they suggested that New York should emulate the system used in Bogotá. I was skeptic...
1 week ago
Livable Portland

A remarkable letter to the Oregonian - Portland developer John Russell challenges the city’s current “build, baby build” approach to the housing crisis — and the local media’s acquiescence — cl...
1 week ago
Real Estate Defined

What will your monthly mortgage payments be like in the future? - I like to think of the price of housing, not from the perspective of the purchase price, but from the perspective of monthly carrying costs – i.e., what yo...
1 week ago
5 Kids 1 Condo

Want To Help Me Run For City Council? Here’s How. - DUDE … after watching @kirstendirksen ‘s Vlog post last night how can you not be the wise choice for a sound and sustainable future for Vancouver. https://...
2 weeks ago
The Better Block

A Muenster Better Block Build at SXSW - We got a call from a friend, who said he had a friend who had a big idea and not a lot of time. Would we be interested in learning more? Always up for a ch...
2 weeks ago
Modacity

Women in Urbanism: Lisa Corriveau Finds Mobility and Meaning Through Family Biking - [image: Image: Modacity] Image: Modacity Ask around most family biking circles in Vancouver who they should talk to for advice on riding with kids, and y...
2 weeks ago
An Urban Strategist's Musings

The Housing Debate: Why can’t we all just get along and start building? - Last week, I left seething at someone who attended a recent Housing Matters event commenting that the National Housing Strategy was made for those on welfa...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Ryan Gravel

Gravel > Beltline Call to Action - (ideas.) This call isn’t only about transit. It’s a much wider call-to-action because without transit – soon and urgently – we won’t get the Beltline we’v...
2 weeks ago
Geoff Boeing

Network-Based Spatial Clustering - Jobs, establishments, and other amenities tend to agglomerate and cluster in cities. To identify these agglomerations and explore their causes and effect...
2 weeks ago
Changing City Updates

616 East Cordova Street - This is a development permit application for a replacement facility in the DEOD part of the Downtown Eastside. Designed by NSDA Architects, it will be a se...
3 weeks ago
Urban Workbench

Deep Work and Time Blocks - How do you schedule your work day?
3 weeks ago
The Urban Observer

Mexico City: bicycle brigades to the rescue - **This is a guest blog post, written by Cynthia Menéndez, manager of WWF’s Sustainable Cities programme in México, including México’s participation in WWF’...
3 weeks ago
Home: Free Sociology!

Visualizing Succession - After my talk at the Vancouver Historical Society, I’ve been playing around with some of the old fire insurance maps for Vancouver. As it turns out, fire i...
3 weeks ago
OpenCity Projects

Ryerson Prof Teaching How to Design for Diversity - OpenCity Projects recently sat down with Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, an architect-planner and Associate Professor in Ryerson University’s School of Urban and R...
3 weeks ago
Opticos Design

Why Form and Scale Matter in the Missing Middle Housing Conversation - The post Why Form and Scale Matter in the Missing Middle Housing Conversation appeared first on Opticos Design.
3 weeks ago
rjohnthebad

Deciding to become a developer can be attractive for some folks in public service - At every One Day Workshops I do with IncDev, there are always a few folks attending from the planning staffs of communities in the region. We also see...
3 weeks ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Parkade plan shows forward thinking - [image: Brent B blog 1] *By Brent Bellamy, Creative Director and Architect* *Republished with permission courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press. * There’s ...
3 weeks ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Brasilia: Life After Design -
4 weeks ago
Rebel Metropolis

Driverless Cars Will Be Allowed to Kill Us, Because Capitalism Is A Death Cult - As you likely already know, last week a ‘driverless’ Uber test vehicle made by Volvo struck and killed 49 year old Elaine Herzberg while she was walking he...
4 weeks ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Autonomous Vehicle Reality - Planners must be realistic. Autonomous vehicles will probably provide smaller net benefits, including safety benefits, than optimists predict.
4 weeks ago
Urban Finland

Contrasting Smart City Approaches: Dubai vs. Vienna - Go to any urban or regional development conference and you will be dazzled with whimsical “Smart City” visions. Usually, this covers a mix of presentations...
4 weeks ago
The Urbanist

Should cyclists and walkers be separated? - Conflict between cyclists and walkers on shared trails is a growing problem. The default should be separation, as recommended by Infrastructure Victoria ...
4 weeks ago
MetroVanWatch

B.C. undermines municipal tax base and affordability (Vancouver Sun, opinion, Elizabeth Murphy) – Provincial encroachment will cost owners and renters - Originally posted on CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions: B.C. Legislature This opinion piece appeared recently in the Vancouver Su...
4 weeks ago
Michael Geller's Blog

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4 weeks ago
The Mainlander

Chinatown Victory at 105 Keefer: VANDU Interviews Vince Tao - [image: IMG-0403] In November 2017, members of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) interviewed Vince Tao, organiser with Chinatown Action Grou...
5 weeks ago
The Little Mountain Project

Have you heard me talk recently on CBC radio? - If you heard me talk recently on CBC and want to know more about the release date of my feature documentary Champions of Little Mountain follow me on faceb...
5 weeks ago
Frances Bula

Top Vancouver developer teams up with former Toronto head planner for massive national project to build rental - No one will ever accuse Ian Gillespie of running short of ideas. The latest from the man who is building both Vancouver House (high-end, sold offshore, unu...
1 month ago
Urban Springtime

The Open City - *Nowadays we make cities to much as a closed system: segregated, regimented, and controlled. Instead of this 'Closed City' we need an 'Open City' where cit...
1 month ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
1 month ago
Spacing Vancouver

Vancouver demographics: brief overview - With over 2,400,000+ population Vancouver is one of the largest cities in North America. It is also one of the …
1 month ago
Yuri Artibise

Proud of my Housing Co-op - I’m proud to see my housing co-op featured in Vancity‘s latest campaign! Vancity has been a great community partner, of not only First Avenue Athletes Vi...
1 month ago
Yurbanism

Proud of my Housing Co-op - I’m proud to see my housing co-op featured in Vancity‘s latest campaign! Vancity has been a great community partner, of not only First Avenue Athletes Vi...
1 month ago
Klaustoon's Blog

Blog-os and Logos - Click to enlarge Old visitors of this blog (are there any?) will remember that at some point before we changed the layout, there used to be a header image ...
2 months ago
Architecture Tourist

Terry's #PhoenixFlies2019 Curation: Five Unseen Ponce de Leon Churches - *Phoenix Flies 2019 is only a year way. Here's are some places I'd enjoy seeing at the next #phoenixflies. To my knowledge they've never been on the tour.*...
2 months 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 ...
2 months ago
myurbanist

Reconciling the Sense-Based City - The city is an undeniably human creation, full of our emotions, impressions, and experiences. Yet the policy and regulatory processes that govern the city ...
2 months ago
Rebuilding The Rust Belt

How and where to access the Ben Franklin Bridge walkways - This post is a guide to reaching the south walkway. Another will be published around 1 March 2018 when walkway users are switched to the north walkway. Las...
2 months ago
City Beautiful 21

Chapel Hill Transit Proposes New System Maps – Scenario 3 Is The Best - The bottom line: in the past week or so, Chapel Hill Transit has released three potential service scenarios that could inform the transit service we have i...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
City Block

693,972 – new DC population estimates - Happy New Year to the very few people who swing by this blog… Ah, the benefits of living in a city-state – the only American city-state. You get your cit...
3 months 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 ...
4 months ago
Urbanthinkers

First blog post - This is the excerpt for your very first post.
4 months ago
A Cartographic View

The Vancouver Is Near Things Maps - From my presentation to the Vancouver City Council on Wednesday, November 29
4 months ago
At the Helm of the Public Realm

Suburbs may be getting cooler, but they will never, ever be as cool as the city - The suburbs may be getting cooler, but they will never, ever be as cool as the city. You might assume they are based on real estate trends and survey resul...
4 months ago
Beasley & Associates

Opinion: Reclaiming space for the community by giving the 13th floor to the people - Originally published in the Vancouver Sun. The 13th floor is always the ‘bad luck’ floor. As long as anyone can remember, residents have not wanted to live...
4 months ago
Lewis N. Villegas

UBCM 2017: Housing Crisis What Crisis? - The so-called ‘Vancouver Housing Crisis’ receives gasping responses from local and provincial politicians at Union of British Columbia Municipalities confe...
5 months ago
Small Homes BC Society

Communities and SHBC go small to address housing affordability and options - For immediate release — November 2017 Our current housing paradigm is facing challenges from a number of fronts. Local governments are dealing with issues ...
5 months ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

MGA ÉTUDIE LE FRANÇAIS - Along with celebrating our recent competition win in France, the MGA team is brushing up on our French! The Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris was a c...
5 months ago
PlannerDan

The Ins and Outs of Sidewalk Cafes -
6 months ago
Howard Blackson

An Ethical Approach to NIMBYism… - Due to today’s housing crisis, it seems west coast cities are taking on Not-In-My-Backyard (NIMBY) opposition that has stymied new projects and development...
6 months ago
WorldWide Wickens

My 2013 submissions to Metrolinx and Toronto’s “feeling congested” process - FEEDBACK PROVIDED IN 2013 FOR: – Toronto Planning’s “Feeling Congested” initiative (or why I circled only four of the 14 suggested funding tools instead of...
6 months 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 months 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, Ne...
7 months 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 months ago
the republic of less

Olafur Eliasson, any time, any place - Look, up in the sky… Look, there’s people. Up in the sky. Walking around and round inside a coloured ringDon’t worry, it is only–ONLY!–a work of art from...
7 months 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 ...
8 months ago
Parksify: Exploring Public Space

Latest podcast episode: Mariela Alfonzo on data analytics for better cities - Mariela Alfonzo, founder and CEO of State of Place discusses how data analytics can be used to improve walkability and make our cities safer *Help fund Par...
8 months ago
mssinenomineblog

Would More Time Have Made Bruce Pardy’s National Post Piece Against Accommodations For Disabled Students Any Less Awful? - On August 17, 2017, a few weeks before thousands of university students will head off to class, the National Post ran an opinion piece by Queen’s Universit...
8 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months ago
urbanSCALE.com - Resources for Vibrant Cities

29 Ideas to Activate Empty Spaces in Your Community - Do you have empty spaces in your community? Do you have forgotten buildings and corridors in your city? Does your downtown have areas that are sorely und...
9 months ago
Ciudad Saludable

Primer registro de puntos de reforestación y trasplante en la Colonia Industrial y sus colonias hermanas. - #ReforestaciónParticipativa Colonia Industrial, GAM, CDMX. Esta iniciativa ciudadana reconoce que el arbolado de la zona genera innumerables beneficios tan...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
Connecting Dots . . .

Integrating Urban Mobility Starts in Our Heads - For those of you keen on the next era of transportation, one more seemingly small but notable shift just happened. And it didn’t start on a city street ...
11 months ago
Restless Urbanist

Bike to Work Day - Bike to Work Day has two important goals: experience and awareness. First, it provides the opportunity for everyone to experience…
11 months ago
In public space we trust

Look upwards! Since 1995 Angie Hiesl has been recruiting people... - Look upwards! Since 1995 Angie Hiesl has been recruiting people aged 60-80 for her street performance *x-times people chair*. The idea is simple: th...
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Cities Matter

Auckland facing Hobson’s Choice: Expansion or Implosion? - *Choosing Auckland* In 1840, the first New Zealand Governor, William Hobson*,* sailed into Waitemata Harbour and chose Auckland as the country’s new capita...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
BCRobyn

What Americans need to know about driving in Vancouver - Many Americans are planning to visit Canada this year. For some, it’ll be their first visit to their northern neighbour. If you’re planning to drive up t...
1 year ago
YVR Housing

They are closer - In a previous post I had highlighted the change in population in the City of Vancouver from 2006–2011 and how areas with a high percentage of “single-det...
1 year ago
Urban Food Revolution

Richmond struggles to protect farmland from monster houses - A policy that was supposed to be protection for farmers has become a loophole for property owners building giant houses, sometimes operating them as illega...
1 year ago
Business of Heritage

King of Kitsch: So long Honest Ed’s - I decided to soak up the garish atmosphere one last time before the store closes for good on December 31, 2016. As usual, Honest Ed’s didn’t disappoint.
1 year ago
Blinking City

Barolism - Harvest Time in the Land of Barolo from Blinking City... - Barolism - Harvest Time in the Land of Barolo from Blinking City on Vimeo. Six producers of the famous wine tell the story of the Barolo during the harve...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Streets for Everyone

City of Vancouver Releases Commercial Drive Intercept Survey Results - Click here to view them: http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/commercial-drive-complete-street-display-boards-oct2016.pdf Some highlights: Over 80% of people surv...
1 year ago
BldgBlog

A Burglar’s Guide to TV - I’m finally back from several weeks of travel and wanted to post some recent news I was particularly thrilled about: my book, *A Burglar’s Guide to the C...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Urbanism Speakeasy

Seeing better cities through your urban diary, with Chuck Wolfe - More than street photography. Chuck’s latest book is Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space [pre-order on Amazon]. He l...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 i...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Reurbanist

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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

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