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Changing Vancouver

Richards Street – 1300 block, east side - Today there are two newly completed residential towers on this block in Downtown South. There are now very few remaining commercial and warehouse buildings...
20 minutes ago
Great Streets San Diego

San Diego Plumber – How to Avoid Plumbing Scams - How to Avoid Plumbing Scams San Diego C Home How to Avoid Plumbing Scams San Diego CA Black Mountain Plumbing 9909 Hibert Street Suite E San Diego, CA 9213...
2 hours ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Tehran and Amsterdam: A Comparison of two opposites? - Tanja Gerum discusses some of the similarities between Amsterdam and Tehran, addressing some of the on-going socio-spatial identity struggles in both cities.
6 hours ago
Meeting of the Minds

3 Key Lessons from Encouraging Communities to Generate Change - Instead of looking around and thinking to one’s self about what could be done to make a certain place better, our program urges folks to share their idea...
7 hours ago
Ephemeral New York

All the ways to get around Brooklyn in 1915 - I count six transportation options Brooklynites had in 1915, according to this rich and detailed postcard of Flatbush Avenue. There’s the elevated train, o...
9 hours ago
Pedestrian Observations

Stop Spacing and Route Spacing - Six months ago I blogged a model for optimal stop spacing on an urban transit route. These models exist in the published literature, but they assume that t...
11 hours ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

About that EKOS poll - A recent EKOS poll found "the incidence of [Canadians] thinking there are too many visible minorities is up significantly and no longer trails opposition t...
11 hours ago
ATL Urbanist

‘No’ votes that killed MARTA expansion came from white, wealthy parts of Gwinnett This... - *‘No’ votes that killed MARTA expansion came from white, wealthy parts of Gwinnett * This is sad. In the failed vote for Gwinnett County to join MARTA last...
12 hours ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Harlem Barber Shop: 1939 - November 1939. "Barbershop on Hillsboro Street. Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
12 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

Alie Touw’s Life In Britain - In the final of three stories published over the holiday, Alie Touw speaks of her life in Britain Centenarian Alie Touw has lived in this country for over ...
16 hours ago
Urban Demographics

Message of the Day - Hat tip to Alberto Texido
21 hours ago
Architect This City

Young people are driving a lot less - As a kid growing up in the suburbs, I got my driver’s license the day I turned 16. Being able to drive was a big deal. But we know that this desire to driv...
23 hours ago
TED Blog

In Case You Missed It: Highlights from TED2019 - Twelve mainstage sessions, two rocking sessions of talks from TED Fellows, a special session of TED Unplugged, a live podcast recording and much more amoun...
1 day ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Learning the wrong lessons from risk management: GFC, Boeing (+ deregulation) - The piece, "Town-City Management: We are all asset managers now," discusses how elected officials and other community stakeholders need to take a longer te...
2 days ago
Free Public Transit

City planners must oppose fare-free urban transit - People looking for solutions to climate and energy can be easily attracted to radical-sounding proposals or comments from city planners. The actual path ba...
2 days ago
urban75 blog

In photos: Extinction Rebellion protests at Oxford Circus, Marble Arch and Waterloo Bridge. Day 5: Friday 19th April 2019 - Today marked the fifth day of the major Extinction Rebellion climate change protests in London. In the blazing sunshine, I went along to three sites at Oxf...
2 days ago
Witold Rybczynski

IT OUGHT TO BE GOTHICK - The organizers of the competition to design a replacement spire for Notre Dame Cathedral, “even more beautiful than before” in President Macron’s words, m...
2 days ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts - It may come as little surprise that many people prefer the vibrancy of a historic neighborhood over the sterile monolithic towers and gargantuan chain st...
2 days ago
Gordon Price

Still Time to Give Feedback on Surrey-Langley Skytrain - TransLink sums it all up in two conveniently tweet-able sentences: Public engagement is a key component of rapid transit planning. We value your feedback...
2 days ago
The Better Block

Meet FD19’s Bus Stop Builders: Harkensback - Harkensback, winner of FD18, has returned for another year. Julie McCollough and Mike Arreaga are business partners and locals of the Bishop Arts District ...
3 days ago
Home: Free Sociology!

UBC Talk: Planning, Building, Dwelling - There’s a talk at UBC Sociology here in Vancouver this week that’s right up my alley! Honorary Research Associate Martin Fuller will be speaking to his re...
3 days ago
rethink urban

Land is Power - Comments to Victoria City Council, April 11, 2019. Four minute read. I’ve lived downtown for 10 years in a condo I was lucky enough to buy when I moved he...
3 days ago
Real Estate Defined

The State of the Resale Housing Market in the GTA - Following up to a post from January of last year, I wanted to publish an updated article covering the state of the resale housing market in the region as o...
4 days 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...
4 days ago
The South Fraser Blog

Video: Discovery Langley City's Parks and Trails - Learn about two of my favourite places in Langley City: The Pleasantdale Creek Trail and Sendall Gardens. These places provide an escape from the busyne...
4 days ago
The Pop-Up City

Turning Empty Rooftops Into Cinemas - The Rooftop Cinema Club transforms urban rooftops across the United States and London into temporary neighborhood cinemas. *Read more →*
4 days ago
Stephen Rees's blog

A Message from the Future - You might recall that Guy Duancy wrote a book on the same theme. This is mainly aimed at the US readers who need to know about the Green New Deal. Everythi...
4 days ago
All About Cities

Window Buying Pitfalls to Avoid at All Costs - Investing in your replacement windows Barrie project isn’t very easy on the pockets. So, it is best if you don’t have to pay a heftyTour Details
4 days ago
Market Urbanism

High-Rises and Street Life - One common argument against tall buildings is that they reduce street life, because the most expensive high-rises have gyms and other amenities that caus...
4 days ago
In public space we trust

It’s called tactical urbanism: with a scarce amount of money and... - It’s called tactical urbanism: with a scarce amount of money and a temporary approach, the aim is to quickly transform squares, streets, blocks with few ...
5 days ago
Come here to me!

Feeding the people: when the Irish Volunteers commandeered pigs on the streets of Dublin - Reading the Bureau of Military History Witness Statements, it is striking just how much of an impact the popular memory of the ‘Great Hunger’ had on Irelan...
5 days ago
City Observatory

Everything that causes gentrification, from A to Z - Gentrification: Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame When bad things happen, we look around for someone to bla...
6 days ago
Grandview Heritage Group

Next Meeting Thurs April 18th! - Our next Grandview Heritage Group meeting is Thursday, April 18th. We meet in the Britannia Board Room at 7:00 p.m. and will have our usual wide-ranging an...
6 days ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Press release on synthetic turf on school fields and parks, public access and health impacts: Park Board decision tonight 15-Apr-2019 (Mon) - As a public service, here we publish a press release and materials relating to turf in parks. For background, please see our February 11, 2019 post, “Petit...
6 days ago
Yuri Artibise

More than Just Homes: Resilience Through Community - We are exploring the range of homes created within a context for affordability, community and for environmental reasons.....or all three. Including tiny ...
6 days ago
Yurbanism

More than Just Homes: Resilience Through Community - We are exploring the range of homes created within a context for affordability, community and for environmental reasons.....or all three. Including tiny ...
6 days ago
Born to Walk

Rideau River rapids! - Three and a half years. That’s how long I’ve been working as a writer at Carleton University — and how long I’ve been looking at the rapids on the Rideau R...
1 week ago
Smart Growth America

Smart Growth America tapped to help determine the future of the Buffalo Skyway - Like a number of other 1950's-era, aging elevated highways that are (or have already) reached the end of their designed lifespans, the elevated Buffalo ...
1 week ago
Frances Bula

Squamish plan for massive development by Burrard Bridge gets a surprisingly warm welcome - So my big story for the week was the news that the Squamish are moving ahead with plans to create a huge new development by the Burrard Bridge. My story wa...
1 week ago
Modacity

Reflections On Our New Dutch Life - [image: Photo: Mitchell Reardon (@MitchellReardon on Twitter).] Photo: Mitchell Reardon (@MitchellReardon on Twitter). *The following post was written by ...
1 week ago
Economics of Place

Podcast 8: Framing messages to boost community engagement -
1 week ago
The Corner Side Yard

CSY At Forbes: The Urban Growth Debate: Cities, Suburbs, Exurbs - A view of downtown San Jose, CA. Is it the nation's tenth largest city, or the largest "suburb" of the Bay Area? Source: theregistrysf.comEver since citie...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
The Urbanist

Is Labor serious about electric vehicles? - Labor's policy on electric vehicles (EVs) is probably good politics but it offers little substance in support of its optimistic targets. And there's a lo...
2 weeks ago
Average Joe Cyclist

Last Chance to Have Your Say on BC’s Active Transportation Strategy - [image: Riding a bike to work will keep you healthy, and also cut down on your carbon footprint. In this post, we have 7 tips for new bike commuters]Last ...
2 weeks 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 weeks ago
AuthentiCity

Property tax assessment maps now available - With a nod to international Records and Information Management Month, we’re pleased to announce an addition to the always-popular tax assessment records: t...
2 weeks ago
Michael Geller's Blog

In celebration of wood. Vancouver Sun March 30, 2019 - A few years ago, I was having a conversation with an acquaintance regarding The Lagoons, a condominium development at the entrance to Granville Island. He ...
2 weeks ago
mssinenomineblog

Facing Facts and Asking For Help - Charity is a dirty word in my world. My world meaning my particular life which includes but far exceeds my experience of being a disabled poor woman. Chari...
2 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Book Review: Stewart and Lynch, Environmental Health and Housing: Issues for Public Health - Jill Stewart and Zena Lynch, Environmental Health and Housing: Issues for Public Health (Second edition), Routledge, 2018 Environmental health policy … Co...
2 weeks ago
Ryan Gravel

National Geographic > “not what the future wants.” - [press.] Robert Kunzig’s cover story for National Geographic’s April issue was this hot take on the future of cities: “These five cities are taking bold st...
3 weeks 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 ...
3 weeks ago
Thinking City

Hong Kong designers reimagine the city’s pocket parks - In a megacity where public space is scarce, local parks are often called ‘three-cornered shit pits’. Now a group of Hong Kong designers is hoping to make t...
3 weeks ago
WorldWide Wickens

And, incredibly, it’s still not too late for Ford to look like a genius on the Scarborough transit file - By STEPHEN WICKENS “To offer riders a more convenient route and alleviate potential budget pressures …” Leading with those words, provincial transit agency...
3 weeks ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

Global Architecture & Design Awards: The Dock Building - The Dock Building has won an international Architecture, Construction and Design Award in the Commercial category, selected from over 400 entries origina...
3 weeks ago
Urbanist.co

These Cities Were Hit the Hardest by Winter This Year - As of this week, Winter 2019 is officially in the books. And with all the snow and rain we got this year, that’s not such a bad thing. Especially if you’...
4 weeks ago
Livable Portland

National Geographic: Cities of the future are about connected people, not segregated machinery - “The purpose of cities is to bring people together. In the 20th century, we blew them apart.” Why are we still stuck in the bad old Modernist mindset? “Th...
4 weeks 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 ...
4 weeks ago
MetroVanWatch

Time to rethink Tsawwassen road access before more development in Southlands and downtown (by Peter van der Velden) - Intro: In this article Peter Van der Velden points out density, and transportation challenges facing Tsawwassen as big new proposals come forward for resid...
5 weeks ago
Urban Workbench

Sidewalk Design Parameters -
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Opticos Design

Enable Missing Middle Housing in Your Town - The post Enable Missing Middle Housing in Your Town appeared first on Opticos Design.
5 weeks ago
Ombú

Covered market and exhibition spaceSchiltigheim •... - Covered market and exhibition space Schiltigheim • France By Dominique Coulon & Associés Photos via: hic arquitectura
1 month ago
This City Life

Robson Square Plaza is a go! - [image: image] Last Wednesday, Vancouver City Council, by a vote of 8-3, approved funding for a permanent makeover to Vancouver’s only central public squar...
2 months ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Seeing the Urban Forest for the Trees - It is important to focus on forests rather than individual trees when evaluating trade-offs between infill and sprawled development.
2 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...
2 months ago
Beasley & Associates

Coming May 1st: Vancouverism - On May 1st, @UBCPress will be releasing Vancouverism, my new book. It will discuss the urban planning practices that reshaped Vancouver into one of the wor...
2 months ago
Lewis N. Villegas

The Housing Crisis and the Vancouver Subway Fight - UBC TODAY | UBC + SUBWAY (LNV Webbimage, 2019) Fifty-two years ago Council Meetings in Vancouver were loud and raucous affairs as people poured into Counci...
2 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...
2 months ago
Howard Blackson

A Better Transit Network in San Diego - (Original Post: https://sandiego.urbdezine.com/2019/01/26/walkable-transit-san-diego/) At last week’s State of the City address, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faul...
2 months ago
Guggenheim Blogs

See and Be Seen: Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photography at the Guggenheim - [image: Robert Mapplethorpe, Candy Darling, 1973. Four dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroids), in painted plastic mounts and acrylic frame, 9.5 x 7.1 c...
2 months ago
charly wilder

Photo -
2 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...
3 months ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Didi Contractor – Marrying the Earth to the Building -
3 months ago
the republic of less

Only Available in Black + White - So here at the end of the year/beginning of the year, we find ourselves thinking about what matters most/what matters least. Through all the buzz, all the...
3 months ago
BCRobyn

5 Things to do in Vancouver for New Year’s Eve - Finding yourself in Vancouver this New Year’s Eve? Whether you want to party or take it easy, here are five ways to ring in 2019 in this west coast city....
3 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...
4 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...
4 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
4 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...
4 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
5 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...
5 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...
5 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…
5 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...
6 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 …
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 months ago
myurbanist

An Expatriate’s Primer on an Urban View - In Gordon Cullen’s epic early-1960s work, The Concise Townscape, he described the visual experience of townscape views through an emphasis on “serial visio...
6 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:
6 months ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

A rebuilt gyratory that is still putting people in danger - The gyratory system around Victoria station in Westminster has been a genuinely horrible place to cycle for as long as I can remember. Getting to and from ...
6 months ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Did the Atlantic Ticket accomplish anything? - In June the Long Island Railroad instituted an "Atlantic Ticket" for people traveling on weekdays between southeast Queens and stops along Atlantic Avenue ...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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
8 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....
8 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...
8 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...
9 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 ...
10 months 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 ...
10 months 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 ...
10 months 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...
11 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...
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
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...
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...
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
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

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...
2 years ago
South End Community Association

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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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