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Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Policeman's Ball: 1942 - February 1942. "Weslaco, Texas. Saturday afternoon baseball game at Mercer G. Evans FSA camp." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administrati...
1 hour ago
Spitalfields Life

Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl - Pamela Cilia The reputation of the Truman’s bottling girls has passed into legend in Spitalfields. In the course of my interviews, so many people have rega...
2 hours ago
Gordon Price

SFU City Conversation: On Vancouverism – Jul 18 - Planner Larry Beasley’s book *Vancouverism*, about our city’s transformation, has just been published. What does it say about Vancouver’s design, its pla...
4 hours ago
Smart Growth America

Cities subsidizing sprawl will miss out on the benefits of walkability - Our new *Foot Traffic Ahead* report shows that walkable neighborhoods are in high demand in all of the country’s biggest metro areas but also massively ...
6 hours ago
TED Blog

One great way to celebrate Pride Month: Document LGBTQ history before it’s lost - June 28, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, when LGBTQ people and allies fought back in a six-night riot against a police raid on ...
6 hours ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Eastern Market's business issues are more complicated than street closures on weekends - [image: Amazon Prime grocery delivery, about two blocks from Eastern Market] Amazon Prime grocery delivery, about two blocks from Eastern Market. (Bad phot...
10 hours ago
The South Fraser Blog

June 24 Council Meeting: RCMP 2020 Contract Policing Budget Approved in Principle. Camping Banned at Rotary Centennial Park. - While Langley City council approved the 2019 municipal budget only three months ago, and property owners still have until July 2nd to pay this year’s pro...
11 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Stanford White’s Murder and the “The Trial of the Century” - Architect Stanford White designed many of New York City’s most beautiful Gilded Age buildings, including the Washington Square Arch and Judson Memorial C...
11 hours ago
The Pop-Up City

How Thessaloniki’s Residents Turn Their Plastic Waste Into Street Furniture - Residents of Thessaloniki, Greece can now upcycle their plastic waste into 3D printed street furniture for the neighborhood. *Read more →*
11 hours ago
Great Streets San Diego

San Diego Lebanese Festival 2019 – Teens | Part 7 - Song: Badna Nwala il Jaw – Nancy Ajram More info on San Diego Lebanese Festival 2019 – Teens | Part 7
17 hours ago
Meeting of the Minds

5 Ways to Improve the Delivery of Road Projects - A study of more than 20 national and sub-national road-infrastructure delivery systems across the world was undertaken, to uncover root causes and improv...
18 hours ago
Municipal Dreams

The Dursley Housing Scheme, 1912, Part II: ‘No Better Housing Scheme’ - I’m very pleased to host this second post by Chas Townley, a follow-up to his article last week which looked at … Continue reading →
18 hours ago
Architect This City

A new approach for inclusive growth - Sidewalk Labs just released its draft Master Innovation and Development Plan (“MIDP”) for Toronto’s eastern waterfront. It’s called Toronto Tomorrow: A New...
22 hours ago
Pedestrian Observations

Assume Nordic Costs: London Edition - A month ago I made maps proposing some subway and regional rail extensions in New York and noting what they would cost if New York could build as cheaply a...
23 hours ago
City Observatory

Valuing Walkability - A new report confirms the growing market for walkable places George Washington University and Smart Growth America have a new report on the economic value ...
1 day ago
mssinenomineblog

Removal of Sign Celebrating Cecil Rhodes - Your job is to teach Vancouver students how to learn from history not how to memorialize and preserve the worst of it. Vote tonight to remove the slab of s...
1 day ago
Changing Vancouver

West Cordova from Abbott (2) - We saw a view westwards from Abbott along Cordova from 1889 in an earlier post. That was the south side of Cordova – here’s the north side seen in a more r...
1 day ago
Free Public Transit

Plenty of excitement about Auckland, NZ fare-free day - Discounted or fare-free public transport moves have gained momentum in Auckland this year to try to accelerate patronage, which is already rising at near...
1 day ago
Ephemeral New York

The Grand Street bus cruising 1970s New York - This is Park Row and Broadway in 1972. John Lindsay was the New York’s mayor; that year, he launched a short-lived quest for the Democratic presidential no...
1 day ago
Grandview Heritage Group

Historical House Prices in Grandview - At the most recent GHG meeting, I presented some preliminary research on house prices in Grandview from 1918 to 1946. Select graph for a better view. The d...
3 days ago
Average Joe Cyclist

Garmin’s New Game-Changing Bike Computer: the Garmin Edge 530 – What’s New? - [image: Garmin’s New Game-Changing Bike Computer: the Garmin Edge 530 – What’s New?]With the launch of the Garmin Edge 530, choosing a premium bike compu...
3 days ago
Urban Demographics

Who pollutes and who gets exposed to road traffic-related air pollution in the UK - In 2003, Gordon Mitchell and Danny Dorling published "An environmental justice analysis of British air quality", a widely cited paper that became a key ref...
4 days ago
Witold Rybczynski

THE KING JAMES VERSION - While James Holzhauer was making his impressive run on Jeopardy I read several articles that suggested that his aggressive and risky mode of play had chang...
5 days ago
ATL Urbanist

“On today’s episode of The Next Mile podcast, we’re talking... - “On today’s episode of The Next Mile podcast, we’re talking about urbanism and its relationship to transportation, with The ATL Urbanist, Darin Givens. H...
5 days ago
urban75 blog

New York street art and signs – SoHo and the Bowery in forty photos - I was back in New York earlier this year, and took this series of forty photographs showing some of the street art and scenes around Soho and the Bowery. T...
5 days ago
Home: Free Sociology!

Checking in with CHSP - With some new data out from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), it’s time to check some of my past work! Let’s see how it holds up. First off, ...
6 days ago
Market Urbanism

A Desire for Density - Desire for Density is a new framework explaining how market prices form a desire path showing where the market could deliver more affordable housing than...
6 days ago
AuthentiCity

A summer of Pride with the City of Vancouver Archives - The Archives is very excited to be a community partner for Pride this year, and would like to thank the Vancouver Pride Society who has invited us to sever...
6 days ago
Urbanist.co

How Clean You Are Based on Your Zodiac Sign - Of course, everyone likes to consider themselves relatively clean. But in reality, it’s impossible to keep your house spotless 24/7. When you visit a fri...
6 days ago
Michael Geller's Blog

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1 week ago
Born to Walk

River surfing - Growing up in Ontario, Mark Scriver paddled anything that floated. He started canoeing with his family as a kid, then drifted into kayaking, progressing ...
1 week ago
The Urbanist

Is labelling the outer suburbs as ‘job deserts’ helpful? - Fringe suburbs have historically always had fewer jobs than workers. What policy makers should focus on is providing good transport links to the more cen...
1 week ago
The Better Block

Better Block Announces a New Spin on a Design Competition - In partnership with Spin, we are launching an open call for designers, urbanists, architects, citizens and anyone who cares about safe and livable streets,...
1 week ago
All About Cities

How Should You Find The Best Property Management Company? - The real estate company is facing a boon, as it promises a good return on investment, people are investing in residential properties. But being aTour Details
1 week ago
Livable Portland

56th International IMCL conference in Portland: “A Healthy City for ALL” - From June 17 to 21, 2019, International Making Cities Livable (co-host of this blog) will host its 56th conference at the Sentinel Hotel in Portland, “A He...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
the republic of less

shadows: flat, black, and cool - Two dimensional, monochromatic, and featureless, shadows only exist because something else exists. They are totally dependent on it, the mothership, the ...
1 week ago
This City Life

Out Today! A Comprehensive Book on Building Child-Friendly Cities - [image: image] By 2030, an estimated *six out of every ten people living in cities willbe under the age of 18. *That is, the majority of city residents wi...
1 week ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

KEVIN NYHOFF JOINS MGA - MGA | MICHAEL GREEN ARCHITECTURE is pleased to announce that Kevin Nyhoff has joined the MGA team as a Principal alongside Michael Green and Natalie Tele...
1 week ago
Frances Bula

Two-thirds say our housing crisis the result of “basic flaws of capitalism,” others say cheaters; critics say false choice - Okay, 361 people voted in my silly little poll asking if our housing crisis is the result of “basic flaws of capitalism” or cheaters taking advantages of a...
1 week ago
In public space we trust

Do you know what San Francisco’s popos are? Privately owned... - Do you know what San Francisco’s popos are? Privately owned public open spaces: located on rooftops, entrances, halls, rooms, they can be found all ...
2 weeks ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Opinion: Vancouver growth targets don’t add up (Elizabeth Murphy, Vancouver Sun, 7-Jun-2019) – Crucial motion coming June 12 - Reprinted here, with permission. Elizabeth Murphy writes in a Vancouver Sun op ed challenges the City’s numbers. Excerpts: Vancouver’s housing strategy is ...
2 weeks ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Automobile Dependency in Action - These examples illustrate how biased planning favors longer-distance, motorized travel over shorter, active, affordable, energy efficient, less polluting, ...
2 weeks ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Do we really want driverless buses? - A consortium has been formed of US transit agencies who want to try out driverless buses. The idea is that the cost of getting into this new technology wil...
2 weeks ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Transit should be controlled by transit riders - I was listening to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Ben Kabak's new podcast, promoting his proposal to transfer control of the New York City subways...
2 weeks ago
Come here to me!

Swimming with Anna Livia: The Liffey Swim at 100 - This year, the 100th edition of the Liffey Swim will take place in Dublin. The event was famously captured by Jack B.Yeats in 1923,a year when the press re...
2 weeks ago
Opticos Design

How to Get By-Right Zoning Right - The post How to Get By-Right Zoning Right appeared first on Opticos Design.
3 weeks ago
BCRobyn

How to bike to Granville Island from Stanley Park - It’s super easy to ride your bike to Granville Island from Stanley Park; it’s probably the most enjoyable way to get there. Here are the three ways you c...
3 weeks ago
Guggenheim Blogs

Robert Mapplethorpe: Framing a Sexual Revolution - [image: Installation view, Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 25–July 10, 2019. Photo: David Heald] How ...
3 weeks ago
Ryan Gravel

Collective Knowledge > “you’re seeing something that I’m not seeing.” - (press.videos. ) I enjoyed sitting down with Gail O’Neill and Felipe Barral for their show Collective Knowledge. Our wide-ranging conversation is captured...
3 weeks ago
Real Estate Defined

What is a better investment – Toronto Real Estate or the S&P 500? - This is a question my friends and I have long discussed and debated over. In this article, I will attempt to once and for all solve this age old mystery. ...
4 weeks ago
Beasley & Associates

Special Offer on Vancouverism-expires August 1 - As a special introductory offer, UBC Press is offering 20% off of Vancouverism for my friends and colleagues. About the book: Until the 1980s, Vancouver ...
4 weeks ago
rethink urban

A New Path Forward – Full Spectrum CPTED - Our Victoria-based company is dedicated to improving safety, well-being and quality of life in communities. It’s always a pleasure sharing our expertise be...
4 weeks ago
WorldWide Wickens

Choice REIT’s plan for Woodbine and Danforth needs to go back to the drawing board - The following is an as-brief-as-possible note on BA Group’s “urban transportation considerations” report, prepared for Choice Properties REIT and pertainin...
4 weeks ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Reflections on Westeros - Well, it is the May long weekend and a celebration of Queen Victoria but this year it has also coincided with the end of Game of Thrones and its own set of...
5 weeks ago
Lewis N. Villegas

My 2-cents on Climate Change, ‘Smart’ Cities and Global Warming - Show Me the Money (stupid!)
5 weeks ago
Howard Blackson

Why Design (still) Matters! - I have running dialog (troll) with a pessimistic friend about the value of our jobs and which of us is cumbersome to this world (yes, I’m listening to Rock...
5 weeks ago
Ciudad Saludable

Reforestación Participativa: la iniciativa ciudadana que lleva árboles a banquetas grises. - Las banquetas son lugares obvios de trayecto de miles de peatones. No debemos aceptar que su rehabilitación por la administración pública las transforme en...
5 weeks ago
Streets for Everyone

Guide For Finding The Perfect Landscaping Company - Landscaping companies often offer specialized services to clients, mainly to meet specific needs and be more competitive. Before hiring a landscaping com...
1 month ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Rio de Janeiro and Rome in pursuit of tourism - City authorities take increasingly agressive measures aimed at attracting tourists and hiding urban poverty from visitors. How do Rome and Rio compare?
1 month ago
myurbanist

why urban history [still] matters - [Republished five years after original posting, upon today’s visit to Edinburgh from London. This post was named The Guardian Cities‘ web article of the we...
1 month ago
The Corner Side Yard

CSY Repost: The Gentrification Management Program - A view of Lake Street in Oak Park, IL. Source: city-data.com *(Note: This post, originally published on January 29, 2015 and again on February 7, 2016, ou...
1 month ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

No, cycling infrastructure in London is not creating a ‘race track’ mentality - TLDR – the fact that there are people cycling fast on cycling infrastructure in London does not mean that the infrastructure is ‘creating’ or ‘causing’ fas...
1 month ago
MetroVanWatch

Public hearings for Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project – May 14 to June 24, 2019: Schedule and reading - Here is an excerpt of an e-mail from the Review Panel Secretariat for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project, followed by a special independent supplement in ...
1 month ago
Modacity

Women in Urbanism: Shoni Madden Proves Communities do have the Power to Create Change - [image: Shoni Crop 2.jpg] *Just before our book launch started in August of 2018, Melissa took time to interview her then colleague, Shoni Madden for a Wo...
1 month ago
Thinking City

Keeping makers in cities: how do we safeguard urban studios? - As cities like London become ever-more unaffordable, studio space for makers and crafters gets harder to protect amid the sprawl of luxury development. But...
1 month ago
Ombú

Making Of Shentel Power House / TV CommercialI Made the 3D model... - *Making Of Shentel Power House / TV Commercial* I Made the 3D model and the adaptation of it to the camera tracking. After that tigrelab make the magic ...
2 months ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Heritage designations are not something to fear - [image: Brent B blog 1] *By Brent Bellamy, Creative Director and Architect* *Republished with permission courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press. * "Buildin...
2 months ago
Economics of Place

Podcast 8: Framing messages to boost community engagement -
2 months ago
Austin On Your Feet

Six Reasons Austin Should Go Big On Small Apartments - Coming up on Thursday, the 2019 version of the Austin City Council will start deliberating on one of the biggest decisions of this year: where to go now th...
2 months ago
Geoff Boeing

AAG Transactions in GIS Plenary - I am giving the Transactions in GIS plenary address at the AAG conference this afternoon. I’ll be reflecting on urban science, spatial networks, and tool...
2 months 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 months ago
Klaustoon's Blog

Quotidian (T)errors: Hyperbole, Caricature, Deformation and Other Catalysts of Invention – Article for Bitácora Magazine - Click to enlarge As a way to celebrate this year’s anniversary (the 10 years of Klaustoon’s Blog, I mean, not the advent of Blade Runner’s 2019), the next ...
3 months ago
Urban Workbench

Sidewalk Design Parameters -
3 months ago
The Mainlander

Stranger Than Kindness: Allyship Versus Support in the DTES - Over the last decade, the BC government has shifted to a model of “supportive” housing for low-income communities in Vancouver and across the province. The...
3 months ago
The Original Green | Steve Mouzon

2019 - A New Proposal for Preservation *search** the Original Green Blog* Origins The core problem that led to the modern preservation movement had bee...
3 months ago
Urban Springtime

Bicycle urbanism: know the ropes - *Recently the Island Press released two books about bicycle urbanism. Two informative books that provide insight into the myths and advantages of this act...
4 months 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...
4 months ago
charly wilder

Photo -
5 months ago
City Block

Missing a chance to create a great transit hub – New Carrollton - If you were to rank Metro station areas by some abstract measure of ‘potential,’ New Carrollton would have to be at the top of your list. It’s not in Washi...
5 months ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Didi Contractor – Marrying the Earth to the Building -
5 months ago
Slow Streets

Slow Streets AI Closed – AWS - By Darren Proulx Slow Streets has shut down, we thank everyone for their support. The following was a blurb that was written about how to conduct observati...
6 months 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 months 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
6 months ago
Cities Matter

Amalgamation and Streamlining City Governance: the Auckland Experiment So Far - *The performance of the Super City – so far, so so* Previous posts indicate that amalgamating local government in Auckland has not yielded efficiencies. Cat...
7 months ago
Yuri Artibise

Hey Neighbour! Field Trip - Last month, I was part of diverse group of stakeholders from the housing, public health, municipal, private and non-profit sectors who were invited by th...
7 months ago
Yurbanism

Hey Neighbour! Field Trip - Last month, I was part of diverse group of stakeholders from the housing, public health, municipal, private and non-profit sectors who were invited by th...
7 months 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
7 months ago
5 Kids 1 Condo

Virtual Reality Tour of the Condo - One of the more frequent requests I get from readers of my 5kids1condo.com blog is for video tours of the condo. The Georgia Straight did a video tour a co...
7 months ago
Changing City Updates

Eventide – Beach and Bute - Deecorp are usually commercial owners and agents for retail and office space Downtown, so a residential building is a bit of a departure from their usual a...
7 months ago
Restless Urbanist

City Building Exchange - I am off onto another adventure in my restless pursuit of urbanism. Over the next three days, I will be…
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Spacing Vancouver

What can you do in Vancouver for a day? - Vancouver is a large metropolis in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the densest and culturally diverse cities in …
8 months 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 ...
8 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

Shooting an ending to the film with OneCity and David Chudnovsky - On the cusp of Vancouver’s 2018 civic elections I am recording conversations with two of the central characters of “Champions of Little Mountain” — Ingrid...
8 months 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...
8 months ago
YVR Housing

[Elephant entering the Hotel Vancouver as part of a publicity stunt] - City of Vancouver Archives - [Elephant entering the Hotel Vancouver as part of a publicity stunt] - City of Vancouver Archives:
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Tribeca Trust

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...
9 months ago
Rebuilding The Rust Belt

Wife fucks other women at home - We get along so much better now that it’s out there. Poaching has a possible deep, evolutionary origin which humans adapted for certain reproductive or sur...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
New Urbanism Blog

最適な税理士の選び方 - いざ税理士を見つけようと思ってもどこで探せばよいのか迷う事も多いのが現状です。手数料はいくらかかるのかも気になります。インターネットが普及していることで、ネットでも税理士情報を得る事ができます。まずは国税庁のホームページ
10 months ago
Parksify: Exploring Public Space

Finding A Reliable Supplier Of Gaffa Tape - Gaffa tape has a wide array of uses. It’s most commonly used by photographers, but it can also be used by production crews that work in film or live shows....
10 months ago
Urban Finland

The Power of DIY Urbanism: How a Group of Skateboarders Changed the City - There’s a lot of talk nowadays (this blog included) about how bottom up movements have become more important in shaping and solving problems of the 21st ce...
11 months ago
Vancouver Not Vegas

The German Report should be followed by a full public inquiry into money-laundering - June 2018 has seen a return of public interest in casino corruption thanks to the efforts of the BC government and Attorney General Dave Eby, and the repor...
11 months 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
1 year 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.*...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Urbanthinkers

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

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

The Ins and Outs of Sidewalk Cafes -
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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.
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Andy Boenau

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

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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
Car Free Baltimore

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2 years ago
The New Urban

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2 years ago
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2 years ago
Michael Mortensen | Plan the Liveable City

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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
Carnegie Community Action Project

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3 years ago
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3 years ago
This Big City

Play! A Bottom-Up Design Process in Lebanon - Joana Dabaj updates us on their project to enhance public spaces in refugee camps in Lebanon.
3 years ago
Canadian Institute of Planners

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3 years ago
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
This Old City

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3 years ago
Fine Young Urbanists

Car seats - Livu Square in Cesis was recently converted from a street into a pedestrian zone, guarded by massive...
3 years ago
Nolan Gray

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3 years ago
City Breaths

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3 years ago
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3 years ago
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4 years ago
Urban Reality

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4 years ago
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4 years ago
Stroad to Boulevard

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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
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THIS BLOG HAS MOVED! - Please go to Serendipcity, where the site has found a new home. Thank you!
4 years ago
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4 years ago
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5 years ago
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SUNN: Vancouver Historic Quartiers

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6 years ago
From BK to BXL

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6 years ago
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7 years ago
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7 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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