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Architect This City

We’re new here. Find your home. - A simple registration page is now live for our upcoming Junction House (condo) project. We also got this neat sign made: Of course, eventually there will...
41 minutes ago
Witold Rybczynski

A CALM IN THE STORM - “Modernism wasn’t just a style—it was a way of thinking, a way of life,” expounds Jessica Todd Smith in a video on the Philadelphia Museum of Art website. ...
56 minutes ago
Great Streets San Diego

EJ Wilson – “God is on your Side” – San Diego, Gaslamp Area - EJ Wilson, Recording Artist and Street Performer in San Diego, CA in the Gaslamp Section. This is a song he wrote entitled, “God is on your Side”. This is ...
1 hour ago
Gordon Price

Discussion: Is Vancouver Truly ‘Making Room’ for More Affordable Housing for All? - Amidst the ongoing housing affordability crisis in the Vancouver region, and just four months before municipal elections, City of Vancouver … Continue read...
1 hour ago
Smart Growth America

100+ local elected leaders join together to boost the prospects of America’s rural places, smaller towns and midsized cities - The First & Main coalition of local elected leaders sent a letter this week to Congress and the Trump administration urging them not to cut or eliminate ...
2 hours ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Semmes City: 1926 - Washington, D.C., 1926. "T.A. Cannon Co. truck at Semmes Motor Co., Florida Avenue N.E." Dealer in Dodge Brothers cars and Graham Brothers trucks. National...
3 hours ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Why does google scholar hinder open access? - Canada's major funding agencies now require all grant-holders to provide "green" open access to any funded publications: any peer-reviewed journal publicat...
4 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Historic Photo Mystery Solved! - As we add images to our Historic Image Archive, we try to provide as much identifying information as possible on each one. Sometimes the images come to ...
5 hours ago
The Pop-Up City

Escape The City In Asif Khan’s Urban Forest - The fast pace of urban life is a growing threat to well-being of those who live in big cities. London-based studio Asif Khan created a temporary soothing...
6 hours ago
Free Public Transit

Oil wars, this is why we have them. - This is the front line of the oil wars and the struggle to save the biosphere. This should be the main topic on all media. But we get distraction instead. ...
18 hours ago
Changing City Updates

888 West Broadway - This is already the location of a hotel; The Park Inn. This rezoning proposal would see two new buildings, one replacing the adjacent Fairview Pub, and one...
20 hours ago
Average Joe Cyclist

Announcing the Winner of the Totem Pole Bike Rack - [image: John Marc, the winner of the Totem Pole Bike Rack, with his wife Alyssa and their three children]We are delighted to announce the winner of our s...
21 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

So Long, Len Hoffman - Today we publish a tribute by Professor of Criminology Dick Hobbs to Len Hoffman, a widely-loved Table Tennis Coach who died last week aged ninety-four Len...
21 hours ago
ATL Urbanist

Interstate 75/85 through Atlanta. Yeah, that was just a bad... - *Interstate 75/85 through Atlanta.* Yeah, that was just a bad idea. We shouldn’t have done this to Downtown Atlanta. This is why it feels like kind of a...
22 hours ago
Urban Demographics

On my way to Dar es Salaam - The blog has been quiet lately because I've been trying to finish my PhD thesis I've been saying this for over a year now but here are two quick updates...
23 hours ago
Howard Blackson

Whose City? Podcasting the San Diego urban experience. - A great group of people and organizations are sponsoring a new podcast on San Diego Urbanism. Me and SDSU Professor Larry Herzog are co-hosting with the in...
1 day ago
Jak's View of Vancouver v.3

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1 day ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

More sports: sports-anchored entertainment districts and LA Live - *Construction near L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles as seen from the rooftop of Hotel Figueroa. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)* The *Los Angeles Times...
1 day ago
Changing Vancouver

Seymour Street – 1000 block, west side (2) - Here’s the southern end of the western side of the 1000 block of Seymour Street in 1981. We looked at the mid-block and the northern end, and the Penthouse...
1 day ago
The South Fraser Blog

426 hectares of sensitive ecosystem lost in Metro Vancouver core over last five years. - Metro Vancouver completed a sensitive ecosystem inventory in 2013. Sensitive ecosystems include areas such as old and mature forests, waterways, estuarie...
1 day ago
Meeting of the Minds

How the Next Generation of Mobility will Affect Cities - Mobility is not about a car or a bus, it’s about accessing the resources we need in a timely manner or being in contact with people we want to interact w...
1 day ago
Pedestrian Observations

Massachusetts Sandbags the North-South Rail Link - Boston has two main train stations: South Station, and North Station. Both are terminals, about 2 km apart, each serving its own set of suburbs; as a resul...
1 day ago
The Corner Side Yard

Welcome To Ashburn (via WBEZ) - Source: thechicagoneighborhoods.comOthers in the "Welcome To" Series: Welcome To South Chicago Welcome To Mount Greenwood Welcome To Rosemont Welcome To Th...
2 days ago
Grandview Heritage Group

Next Meeting: Thursday 21st June - My apologies for the lateness of this posting. The next meeting of the Grandview Heritage Group will take place at 7:00pm on Thursday 21st June at the Brit...
2 days ago
Come here to me!

‘His Lowness, Prince Hackball’ - In eighteenth century Dublin, much like more recent times, ‘street characters’ of sorts emerged among the populace. Sometimes these people were well-known...
2 days ago
TED Blog

TEDx talk under review - Updated June 20, 2018: An independently organized TEDx event recently posted, and subsequently removed, a talk from the TEDx YouTube channel that the event...
2 days ago
The Mainlander

Battle for 58 West Hastings: Broken Promises and Co-optation, 2016-2018 - [image: 58 pic 1 [emily vance twitter]]For years, an empty lot at 58 West Hastings has been at the centre of a fight for social housing in the Downtown Eas...
3 days ago
City Observatory

Profiles of Diverse, Mixed Income Neighborhoods - Our new CityReport dives deep in data; but what does a diverse, mixed income neighborhood look like? As we explained in our new report–America’s Most Diver...
3 days ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

Westminster Bridge bus stop bypass, revisited - In case you had forgotten, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust spent over £10,000 of NHS funding in an attempt to prevent ‘floating’ bus stops being built on We...
3 days ago
Municipal Dreams

Nottingham’s Council Housing by Bus and Tram - A few weeks ago, I was in Nottingham to give a talk on my new book to the good people … Continue reading →
3 days 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 days ago
The Urbanist

Is Melbourne the new New York? - The Age's comparison of the density of Melbourne's CBD with the density of New York City might massage the prejudices of its readers, but it's rubbish Th...
3 days ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Preview for week of June 18, 2018: City Council, Park Board - The City of Vancouver administration and City Council are going to be in overdrive for the next several weeks leading up to the annual summer hiatus, which...
4 days ago
Lewis N. Villegas

Vancouver to Calfornia …in a Tesla - SUPER CHARGING AT A TESLA DEALERSHIP NEAR GRANTS PASS, OREGON What about this: drive my car to California, electric ‘super’ charging TOTALLY free… That was...
4 days ago
Urbanist.co

All Your Questions About Solar Power for the Home, Answered - Solar energy is a wonderfully effective and cost-efficient addition to most any home, and yet only 3% of American households use it. So what’s up? Maybe ...
4 days ago
Ephemeral New York

All that remains of a now-defunct Bronx hospital - With their many rooms and spacious lobbies, many hospitals from early 20th century New York City have been repurposed into co-ops and condos. Think St. Vin...
4 days 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 ...
4 days ago
rjohnthebad

Biblical Precedent for Traffic Calming and restoring sanity to street design - I have purposefully cherry picked two street in Charleston to compare. The Crosstown/US17 which most folks hate and Church Street which is one of the mo...
5 days ago
Michael Geller's Blog

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5 days ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Arbutus Greenway - The greenway is really showing how well the plan is working now. The start of sunny weather and car free days in Vancouver is bringing people outside. We w...
5 days ago
urban75 blog

Early Hip Hop culture photographed: Beat Positive at the Getty Gallery, London - It’s quite a small exhibition, but there’s some cracking images to be seen at ‘Beat Positive,’ a photographic celebration of early hip hop culture at the G...
6 days ago
MetroVanWatch

Port of Metro Vancouver: Land Use Plan amendments (land acquired + divested). Open houses in June 2018 - For public attention. The Port of Metro Vancouver (@PortVancouver) is an important player and land holder in this region. It is acquiring and divesting of ...
1 week ago
Livable Portland

Is ONI – er, OCCL — still broken? - New director Suk Rhee brings in refreshing values of diversity — but basic principles of geographic representative democracy seem to be lost in the shuffle...
1 week ago
AuthentiCity

Tea, Talk and Treats: An Exclusive Summer Evening in Vancouver’s Chinese Garden - The City of Vancouver Archives is the repository for the early records of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Society and on July 5, at 6pm, the Friends of the Vanc...
1 week ago
Home: Free Sociology!

How to Become a Resort City - I think many people are concerned that Vancouver is turning into a “resort city” – a playground for the rich – rather than a diverse and thriving city for ...
1 week ago
Real Estate Defined

What is a good way to spot a “Housing Bubble”? - One simple and effective way of spotting a housing bubble is to compare the % change in house prices to the % change in incomes. The chart below shows Year...
1 week ago
Economics of Place

Podcast 4: Building an Inclusive Community with Melanie Piana - In this episode of the Economics of Place podcast you can listen to Ferndale councilwoman Melanie Piana and her thoughts on what it takes to be a truly inc...
1 week ago
the republic of less

Small matters - As everything around us seems to be getting bigger, we are feeling the pinch and reminded of the inherent virtues of smallness. Doing more with less conti...
1 week ago
Klaustoon's Blog

Cook-ing - Sir Peter Cook -the man, the myth, the ringmaster- points at Peter Cook, the comic book character during a dinner in Porto. Anyone who’s thrown even a casu...
1 week 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 week ago
The Better Block

Slavic Village Better Block Kickoff - For the past four years, the Rooms to Let program in Slavic Village in Cleveland has been temporarily reimagining vacant single-family homes as art install...
1 week ago
Ombú

Renzo Piano, an italian architect and engineer, who won the... - *Renzo Piano*, an italian architect and engineer, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998. This is my wooden interpretation of the...
2 weeks ago
Opticos Design

Rebuilding for Those in Need: Opticos Designs for Wildfire Cottage Initiative - The post Rebuilding for Those in Need: Opticos Designs for Wildfire Cottage Initiative appeared first on Opticos Design.
2 weeks ago
Frances Bula

Vancouver’s centre-right party settles on a (surprise) winner, left agrees on council-slate numbers for parties - Well, it was another exciting week in Vancouver civic politics, as the Non-Partisan Association, after weeks of roller-coaster drama, chose its mayoral can...
2 weeks ago
Geoff Boeing

Estimating Daytime Density in RSRS - My short article “Estimating Local Daytime Population Density from Census and Payroll Data” is out now in the latest issue of Regional Studies, Regional ...
2 weeks ago
mssinenomineblog

Curiosity: Vancouver’s Straw Ban – Another Barrier and Another Excuse For Non-Disabled People to Shame, Marginalize, Interrogate and Demonstrate They Don’t Care About Discrimination Against Disabled People - On May 16, 2018, the City of Vancouver, BC voted unanimously to proceed with a ban on single-use plastic straws. They did so despite the fact they are ne...
3 weeks ago
Market Urbanism

Ch. 1 What is a City?: Concluding thoughts & works cited - Viewing cities as spontaneous orders and not as works of art helps to explain the tradeoff between scale and order, as well as the role of time in soften...
3 weeks ago
Modacity

Women in Urbanism: Kristen Jeffers Addresses a Glaring Representation Gap with "The Black Urbanist" - [image: 13411862_1116070058449299_6250543459511917872_o.jpg] Every urbanist has a story that helps shape the passionate person they become over time. A li...
3 weeks ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

MGA, A Katerra Company: Frequently Asked Questions - Michael Green Architecture (MGA) is pleased to announce that the firm will become a Katerra company. Below are some commonly asked questions about MGA, ...
3 weeks ago
This City Life

Be a Life Saver: Join First Ever Mass CPR Training Event in Vancouver - [image: image] Earlier this year, a close friend of mine suffered a heart attack while playing hockey. His heart stopped for several minutes, but he was sa...
3 weeks ago
Guggenheim Blogs

“The Impossibilities of Language”: Artist Shaun Leonardo on Why Words Can Divide Us - [image: Artist Shaun Leonardo working with participants during a rehearsal at the Guggenheim for Primitive Games. Photo: Ed Marshall © SRGF] Artist Shaun ...
4 weeks ago
Austin On Your Feet

Does transportation serve people or do people serve transportation? - No big city has solved either of two problems: making car traffic flow smoothly or making parking simple and cheap. The issue isn’t that governments in eve...
4 weeks ago
Ryan Gravel

FAQ > what do you think about the More MARTA plan? - (faq.) A year and a half after the November 2016 referendum, MARTA released its draft plan for how to spend $2.5 billion of City of Atlanta taxpayer money...
4 weeks ago
rethink urban

Why does NIMBY still look blurry? - Why does NIMBY still look blurry? I try to keep an open mind and heart when it comes to NIMBY issues. But some days I struggle. For instance, I love the fa...
5 weeks ago
The Urban Observer

Cities must move to fossil-free and car-free for a healthy future - Clean air and clean water are the main things citizens want for their health and well being as residents in a sustainable city, according to a recent globa...
5 weeks ago
Beasley & Associates

Brampton 2040 Vision: Executive Summary - Brampton2040Vision.ExecutiveSummary.2018May7 Advertisements
5 weeks ago
Thinking City

Could self-build help tackle homelessness in the UK? - by James Andrew Cox A lack of affordable, good quality housing in the UK is affecting everyone; thousands of people are being priced out of their homes eve...
5 weeks ago
Born to Walk

Walking, paddling & driving in Scotland - The narrow highway is flanked by a pair of mist-shrouded mountains. Hairpin turns descend to the head of a long freshwater loch. As we pull over to behold ...
1 month ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Understanding Location-Efficient Affordability Impacts - A recent study suggests that families save little by moving to location-efficient neighborhoods. There are good reasons to be skeptical of that conclusion.
1 month ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Relics of the Future -
1 month 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 month 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...
1 month 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 ...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Urban Workbench

Deep Work and Time Blocks - How do you schedule your work day?
2 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

Have you heard me talk recently on CBC or CITR radio? - If you heard me talk recently on CBC or CITR and want to know more about the release date of my feature documentary Champions of Little Mountain follow me ...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
3 months 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 …
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 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.*...
4 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
6 months ago
Urbanthinkers

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

The Vancouver Is Near Things Maps - From my presentation to the Vancouver City Council on Wednesday, November 29
6 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...
6 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 ...
7 months ago
PlannerDan

The Ins and Outs of Sidewalk Cafes -
8 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...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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.
9 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 ...
9 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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…
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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
Andy Boenau

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

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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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