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Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Colonial Esso: 1940 - November 1940. "City Hall after a snowstorm in Norwich, Connecticut." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. V...
3 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

The Queenhithe Mosaic - Queenhithe is a natural inlet of the Thames in the City of London, it means ‘Queen’s harbour’ and is named after Queen Matilda who granted a charter for th...
8 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Carolee Schneemann’s Kinetic Theater at Judson Memorial Church - The 1892 McKim, Mead & White Italianate Eclectic style Baptist church on Washington Square set the scene for some of feminist artist Carolee Schneemann’s m...
11 hours ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Liverpool loses UNESCO World Heritage Site designation: An example of tough choices for cash strapped governments - With the denouement of approval of the conversion of the Bramley-Moore Dock into a site for the new Everton football stadium, UNESCO has pulled the desig...
11 hours ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Voxel Bridge installation - The ‘Voxel Bridge’ installation under the Cambie Street Bridge is starting to take shape. This is being billed as a blockchain-based augmented experience t...
13 hours ago
Architect This City

Project Profile: 100 Franklin by DDG Partners and Palette Architecture - 100 Franklin is my kind of project. Developed by DDG Partners, 100 Franklin is a small boutique condominium project that was completed last year in New Yor...
20 hours ago
Pedestrian Observations

The Leakage Problem - I’ve spent more than ten years talking about the cost of construction of physical infrastructure, starting with subways and then branching on to other thin...
1 day ago
City Observatory

Selling Oregon into highway bondage - Borrowing billions to widen roads endangers the climate and finances It’s doubly wrong to burden future generations with the environmental costs of wider r...
1 day 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...
1 day ago
Changing Vancouver

54 East Cordova Street - Like the rooming house to the west, (more recently known as the Wonder Rooms) this building was designed by Hugh Braunton, in this case a year later in 191...
1 day ago
The South Fraser Blog

Crime Prevention Task Group: Download Business Flyer - Territoriality and Defensible Space - Langley City’s Crime Prevention Task Group has released its latest poster on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), focusing on businesse...
1 day ago
mssinenomineblog

Undelivered Speech to Vancouver City Council about Extreme Heat and Poor Air Quality Mitigation - It is beyond absurd for any member of any level of government in this country to say that our recent heat wave came as a complete and unexpected surprise.
2 days ago
TED Blog

Notes from Session Zero(!) of TEDMonterey - What’s Session Zero? It’s the first-ever special teaser session of a TED Conference! Ten days from now, on August 1, TEDMonterey kicks off in Monterey, Cal...
2 days ago
Urban Finland

The Rise of the Parklet - COVID-19 is helping parklets mushroom in Helsinki and other Finnish cities, ushering a quiet revolution in street space distribution.
2 days ago
Smart Growth America

SGA partners with North End community members to create equitable development plan - At the beginning of 2021, Smart Growth America began working with North End leaders and residents in Newport, Rhode Island with the goal of creating an equ...
2 days ago
Urban Demographics

The impact of public transport monetary costs on transportation equity - We have a new study *preprint* looking at “The impact of transit monetary costs on transport equity analyses”. The manuscript is currently under review,...
3 days ago
Home: Free Sociology!

Recent Sightings - A round-up of recent sightings on-line (cause where else am I gonna show up?) June through July saw me presenting at the Canadian Sociological Association ...
3 days ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

13 facts every Canadian economist needs to know - 1. Canada is a big country ...but not as big as one might think. Some maps show Canada as an enormous country, about twice the size of China or the US, sim...
3 days ago
Urban Springtime

The child in the city: an extensive summary - * In 1978 Colin Ward wrote the widely read and much quoted book 'The Child in the City'. The book is an attempt to explore the relationship between chil...
4 days ago
ATL Urbanist

Whether intentional or not, NIMBYs in hot neighborhoods (near jobs & amenities) will... - Whether intentional or not, NIMBYs in hot neighborhoods (near jobs & amenities) will artificially inflate their home resale values by creating a scarcity...
4 days ago
The Corner Side Yard

Changing Boundaries, Changing Perceptions - How do cities effectively counter new growth? If they can, they capture it -- one way or another. Source: videohive.net What if I told you that Chicago is...
4 days ago
Ephemeral New York

A tenement sign high up at the corner of First Street and First Avenue - The corner of First Street and First Avenue is roughly the borderline of the East Village. And what better than an old-school address sign like this one af...
5 days ago
Average Joe Cyclist

New Cycling Flask on KickStarter – Check it Out! - [image: This new cycling flask will fit neatly in your existing bottle cage]Here is news of a great new KickStarter run by the inventor of a new cycling ...
1 week ago
The Pop-Up City

Welcome to the ×-Minute City - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo garnered international praise when she launched her plan for the 15-Minute City. In her wake, similar but different concepts spran...
1 week ago
urban75 blog

In photos: Explore front rooms of the past at the Museum of the Home, east London - Formerly the Geffrye Museum, the Museum of the Home is located in the old Geffrye Almshouses on Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London. The free museum explo...
1 week ago
Meeting of the Minds

Digitally Connected Campuses Offer Enhanced Experiences - Following such a tumultuous school year where change was the only constant, perhaps there is no greater opportunity for colleges and universities to reima...
1 week ago
Lewis N. Villegas

Better Transit, Alright: But NOT Another Skytrain Extension!!! - Here is a H*I*N*T Mr. Trudeau: Better Transit = Affordable Housing. Guarantee Canadians Affordable Houses at the Next Election & you have my vote!
1 week ago
Urbanist.co

Looking To Make a Big Move? These Are The Best Cities in America for Generation Z - Each city has its own strengths and weaknesses. Some have fantastic nightlife and restaurants, some have a plethora of parks and activities, while others...
1 week ago
Market Urbanism

Book review: Last Harvest - In the standard urban growth model, a circular city lies in a featureless agricultural plain. When the price of land at the edge of the city rises above ...
1 week ago
Witold Rybczynski

FUNERAL BLUES - A friend sent me these lines from Auden’s “Funeral Blues”: . . . my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, Yes. The post ...
1 week ago
rethink urban

Art in the City - It seems a little strange that after a very long haul through the pandemic that we might actually be returning to some kind of normal this summer. We’ve be...
2 weeks ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Cities don't think - I listen to a few podcasts that cover issues of land use and transportation, and they tend to be heavy with urban planners. I also follow some urban plan...
2 weeks ago
Opticos Design

What’s Next for Downtown San Rafael? - The post What’s Next for Downtown San Rafael? appeared first on Opticos Design.
3 weeks ago
Stephen Rees's blog

We missed two-thirds of the COVID19 deaths - “The pandemic has exposed many uncomfortable truths about Canadian society, among them, the limits of our healthcare system, tragic flaws in long-term care...
3 weeks ago
This Big City

What People in the Creative Industries Need to Know About Urban Transformation - Can creativity transform urban design and planning? That was the question that drew me to the recent event Designing Sustainable and Creative Cities: A C...
3 weeks ago
Ciudad Saludable

No me canso de afirmar que el peatón es primero y que el gobierno en Ciudad de México está obligado a responder a la necesidad humana de caminar - La eficiente construcción de infraestructura es fundamental para la movilidad peatonal, ya sea como área de trayecto o como zona de estar. Esta acción de g...
4 weeks ago
The Mainlander

Alcohol Prohibition Never Ended in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. We See Another Way Forward. - The legalization of public drinking was top-of-mind for many in Vancouver in the wake of COVID-19 – but don’t be fooled. These “progressive” policies won’t...
4 weeks ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Retrofitting Makes Room for Residential - [image: allison] *By Allison Slonosky, Marketing Strategist* [image: arts d] As architects, designers, and urban planners, building great buildings and ...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Michael Geller's Blog

Father's Day - While I am looking forward to spending Father's Day with Claire and Georgia and their partners and children (well, actually just Harriet will be with us....
4 weeks ago
Real Estate Defined

Saint Petersburg – the City Built on Bones - A few weeks ago I watched a very interesting BBC documentary about the history of Russia called – Empire of the Tsars. The documentary speaks of a fascinat...
1 month ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

MGA and Katerra - MGA has some news to share about recent decisions from Katerra, a 5-year-old vertically integrated construction company. Since 2018 MGA has been a Design...
1 month ago
Geoff Boeing

Framework for Measuring Pedestrian Accessibility - I’m a co-author of a new article, “A Generalized Framework for Measuring Pedestrian Accessibility around the World Using Open Data,” which has just been pu...
1 month ago
Beasley & Associates

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1 month 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...
1 month ago
Frances Bula

As government money for social housing climbs, communities are in debates as they see proposals for new projects of a type they’ve never had before - My story in the Globe is here and also in text below. I’m also appending below the police statistics I got on calls to addresses of all the supportive-hous...
1 month ago
Architecture Tourist

The 2021 Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens the Last Day - I went to The 2021 Southeastern Designer Showhouse & Gardens on the very last day. Here's the program. I haven't been to a show house since before COVID,...
1 month ago
AuthentiCity

Go by Bike Week: A Selection of Bicycle-Related Photographs - It is that time of year when various organizations promote cycling to work and school, and this year we’re celebrating ...
1 month ago
Urban Workbench

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
1 month ago
Municipal Dreams

Book Review: Tjerk Ruimschotel, ‘Architectural Guide London’ - Tjerk Ruimschotel, Architectural Guide London (DOM Publishers, 2021) Firstly, an apology: new posts have been pretty sparse recently. Firstly, for … Conti...
1 month ago
Ryan Gravel

Gravel > all this talk of racist highways. - (ideas.work.) Much has been made recently of the fact that many of America’s highways are racist. It started when USDOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg told April...
2 months ago
Born to Walk

The power and potential of blue space - Chat Guenter, a firefighter and rescue instructor in Canmore, Alberta, stands six-foot-three, weighs 250 pounds, and is covered in tattoos. He has seen a l...
2 months ago
Howard Blackson

The Next New Urbanism - This Covid year has accelerated development patterns that have been shifting over the past decade, and as originally formulated by New Urbanist 20 years be...
2 months ago
Howard Blackson

The Next New Urbanism - This Covid year has accelerated development patterns that have been shifting over the past decade, and as originally formulated by New Urbanist 20 years be...
2 months ago
MetroVanWatch

International Noise Awareness Day, April 28: SILENCE! Today at 2:15 pm for one minute - Originally posted on CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions: Preamble: Many Vancouverites love their right to quiet. Surprise! Today is...
2 months ago
Ombú

Universita Luigi Bocconi Milan School of Economics/ University... - *Universita Luigi Bocconi* Milan School of Economics/ University Campus (Size: 45,000m2) By Grafton Architects
2 months ago
Klaustoon's Blog

The Man Who Would Be Rome. Albert Uderzo (1927-2020) - Click to enlarge Today would have been Albert Uderzo’s 94th birthday, had it not been for the unfortunate heart attack that took his life in March 2020, at...
2 months ago
Free Public Transit

By 2nd Law, growth is the problem. Cars promote sprawl and growth. - The negative impacts of past growth are already clear with accelerating climate change and environmental degradation. They will become particularly prono...
3 months ago
Come here to me!

The Bohemia Carnival - Published for the club’s centenary in 1990, Phil Howlin’s history of Bohemian Football Club refers briefly to a carnival held at Dalymount in 1938 and 1940...
3 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

LITTLE MOUNTAIN DISPUTE IN BC SUPREME COURT THIS WEEK - The next chapter in the 14-year long Little Mountain Social Housing dispute heads to BC Supreme Court on Thursday. The Court will hear the developer’s jud...
3 months ago
WorldWide Wickens

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
4 months ago
Cities Matter

In defence of NIMBYs - *Why? Not in my backyard! Or, w**hy not in my backyard? * NIMBYism is seen as a negative, the selfish *not in my back yard *reaction of residents to any...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
Restless Urbanist

Airbnb For My Yard - Simple idea: Airbnb for my Lawn, find a place to grow.
5 months 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...
5 months ago
BCRobyn

The Uncertain Future of Finn Slough: The Contemporary History of A Marginalized Society - I originally wrote this history of Finn Slough in March 2007 for my BC history class at UBC. I was 26. It was my first attempt at writing history. I grew...
5 months ago
Austin On Your Feet

Affordability Unlocked and Its Impact (Part 2) - Today, we continue with part 2 of our guest post about Affordability Unlocked by Brian Poteet. All of the projects we discussed in Part 1will make a dent i...
5 months 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 …
6 months ago
Blinking City

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6 months 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...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
myurbanist

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: The Digital Brochure - For the last two months, I’ve been finalizing the proofs for my new book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character, with the publisher, as well as heavi...
7 months 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 ...
8 months 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 ...
9 months ago
Reurbanist

Rethinking retail’s role in animating streets and public spaces - For decades, planners, urban designers, and policy makers have advocated for street-facing ground floor retail space as a means of animating streets and pu...
9 months ago
the republic of less

by the sea, by the sea - Living by the sea can be a swell thing. Where we live, the breezes are mostly mild and scented with salt, sea shells, and mermaids. People, lots of people,...
9 months ago
Thinking City

Memories of Manila: neighbourhood change through one woman’s eyes - “Eventually, the past has to give in to the present.” In Grounded, filmmaker Tapio Snellman takes us to the Malate neighbourhood of Manila, with its high-r...
1 year ago
This City Life

Vancouver wants children and youth to help shape the city’s future - Several months ago, the City of Vancouver launched Vancouver Plan, the first city plan in 100 years. It asks Vancouverites big, broad questions on what t...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Changing City Updates

Princess Carriage Coloring Pages -
1 year 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
1 year ago
Urban Food Revolution

Looking for seeds? - Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables
1 year 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...
1 year ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Mexico City and Washington DC – two capitals in comparison - Lukas Müller looks into Washington DC and Mexico City, and compares the two cities in terms of demography, socio-spatial inequality and global connectedness.
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Slow Streets

Protected: US-SSAI - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
All About Cities

Top Reasons To Hire Mobile Locksmith Services In Ottawa - If you had the experience of being locked out of your car or home, you will never ask for the reasons to hire a mobileRead More
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
OPEN: design collaborative

City Dreamers -
1 year ago
City Block

Two years of tracking my Metro trips - Two years ago, I started tracking my WMATA rides for extremely trivial reasons. After a while, my curiosity is now ingrained as a habit, a small bit of gam...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
Rebel Metropolis

The Earth Isn’t Dying, It’s Being Killed by Realtors - In 2013 the US was still reeling from the collapse of the housing market in 2008. While hundreds of thousands of Americans unjustly lost their homes, many ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
charly wilder

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2 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 →
2 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 Advertisements
2 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
2 years ago
City Beautiful 21

Lloyd Farm Is Only “Doing The Wrong Thing Better” And Should Be Voted Down - One of Canada’s leading urban planners, Brent Toderian, shares this slide with communities he consults in to spur discussion: As the Carrboro Board of Alde...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years 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 years ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
Urbanthinkers

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

The Vancouver Is Near Things Maps - From my presentation to the Vancouver City Council on Wednesday, November 29
3 years ago
PlannerDan

The Ins and Outs of Sidewalk Cafes -
3 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...
3 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, Ne...
3 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.
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
smalltownurbanism

The Parklet Project - The Parklet Project was a success! We set up 3 parklets on Main Street and blocked a section of street to create a pop-up plaza last Saturday. The 3 Main S...
4 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...
4 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
4 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...
4 years ago
Melissa Fong

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4 years ago
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5 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

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

1914 - World's First Traffic Light
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