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Great Streets San Diego

Travel With Me | Northern California Roadtrip - Little weekend getaway up to Mount Shasta with a stop in Redding to see the Sundial Bridge. More info on Travel With Me | Northern California Roadtrip
1 hour ago
ATL Urbanist

This video is probably giving us a glimpse at what a... - This video is probably giving us a glimpse at what a shared-autonomous-car future looks like, where everyone is getting dropped off at offices at the sam...
1 hour ago
Gordon Price

Taking an Election Break — 3 - It looks like a carefully curated theme, but really, there are just so many families with kids out there in the world of people who ride bikes. They jus...
2 hours ago
The South Fraser Blog

October 15, 2018 Council Meeting Notes: Old Yale Road Seniors District - Last night was the last council meeting before the general election. The final meeting of the current council will be on October 29th, with the new counc...
3 hours ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

Brief comment on e-scooters: "personal mobility" versus "mass mobility" versus "mass transit" - [image: Adult e-scooter users carrying children in the vicinity of the National Mall] charlie in a comment on another thread asked: I'd be curious on your...
3 hours 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...
4 hours ago
urban75 blog

London street views: Discarded knickers, bins, signs and details, October 2018 - Here’s some things that caught my eye while walking around central London a couple of days ago. Above: shoes, Hills Place, Oxford Circus. Bins, Ramilies Pl...
8 hours ago
Meeting of the Minds

How Homeownership Builds Individual and Community Wealth - The importance of property ownership is older than our nation itself. And although (thankfully) owning property is no longer a requirement for voting, ho...
10 hours ago
Frances Bula

NDP has some things to fix with civic-election campaign law when this is all over - One of the big issues in this campaign season has been the discovery of holes and glitches in the province’s new campaign-finance law for local elections. ...
14 hours ago
Architect This City

Japan’s solution to housing affordability - [image: image] There’s a debate among urbanists as to the full impact of housing supply on overall affordability. But it should make intuitive sense that...
14 hours ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Shenandoah: 1938 - Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1938. "Shenandoah. House fronts in a mining town." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
16 hours ago
Livable Portland

What does Jane Jacobs still offer to Portland for its current challenges? - A free showing of a new film on Jacobs’ life and ideas will explore the question and its answers (Friday October 19th, 7-10 PM) The urban champion Jane Jac...
17 hours ago
TED Blog

Remembering Paul Allen - What’s an appropriate second act after co-founding Microsoft? When Paul Allen left the massive software company, sure, he bought a sports team or two, foun...
17 hours ago
Michael Geller's Blog

CBC The National 'Putin's paradise': How Russia is revamping Moscow to be one of Europe's most vibrant cities - While CBC television rarely attends my SFU Lectures, it did attend my talk at the Strelka Institute in Moscow. Chris Brown, who heads up CBC's Moscow Burea...
18 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

Lew Tassell At Charles & Diana’s Wedding - We join Detective Constable Lew Tassell on duty on the roof of Ludgate House for the wedding of His Royal Highness Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer on 2...
18 hours ago
Howard Blackson

Same as it Ever Was… Same as it Ever Was. - We live in the south end of North Park, San Diego. The community has been experiencing an urban development renaissance over the past 25 years. Our city’s ...
23 hours ago
Jak's View of Vancouver v.3

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1 day ago
The Mainlander

From “Escaping Vancouver” and YIMBYism to Fighting Back Through Collective Action - The various iterations of the “Escaping Vancouver” narrative share a core unexamined underpinning: the idea that I, a hard-working, usually white, middle ...
1 day ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Gay Activist Alliance Headquarters Bombed - On October 15, 1974, the Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse, located in SoHo at 99 Wooster Street, was bombed. One of the most highly influential LGBT grou...
1 day ago
Changing Vancouver

Helmcken Street – 400 block, north side - This is one of our favourite images of Downtown Vancouver in the Archives collection. Shot over 50 years ago, in 1966, the residential nature of much of th...
1 day ago
Changing City Updates

988 West Broadway Office - Blue Sky Properties submitted their development application for a 10-storey office to sit on the south-east corner of Broadway and Oak (to replace an agein...
1 day ago
Urban Demographics

On the road - This blog and my Twitter will be less active in the next few days. I'm on my way to California to have a few weeks off from work and celebrate. My partner ...
1 day ago
Ephemeral New York

A motorized fire engine draws a crowd in 1910 - “New motor propelled fire engine” reads the caption of this 1910 postcard, which shows off what appears to be the Fire Department’s newest piece of equipme...
1 day ago
Free Public Transit

#climate to sharply increase poverty - ...the world faces extreme weather events, food shortages, wildfires, dying coral reefs, droughts, floods and poverty for hundreds of millions. To avoid t...
2 days ago
Pedestrian Observations

Port Authority’s LaGuardia Rail Link Study - Two days ago, Port Authority put out a study about a rail link to LaGuardia, which became Governor Cuomo’s top transit priority a few years ago. The PDF fi...
3 days ago
Sean Bickerton

Hibiscus - Hibiscus: Acrylic on canvas (18″ x 24″) If any evidence of alien visitation on Earth were needed, the Hibiscus provides it. The colours of the flowers are ...
3 days ago
Average Joe Cyclist

How Protein Helps your Post Bike Ride Recovery - [image: To succeed in cycling, you may have to think about increasing your protein intake]Protein is a nutrient that’s typically associated with gym rats...
3 days ago
5 Kids 1 Condo

We’re Going to the BC Supreme Court! - I’m Adrian Crook, a single father of five kids living in a condo in downtown Vancouver and an Independent Vancouver City Council candidate in this October’...
3 days ago
The Pop-Up City

On The Future Of Urban Living - Based on a two-year research, we created a publication on the future of urban living. You can download the PDF for free. *Read more →*
4 days ago
Market Urbanism

The land price argument and why it fails - One common argument against all forms of infill development runs something like this: “In dense, urban areas land prices are always high, so housing pric...
4 days ago
AuthentiCity

2010 Olympic Torch Relay Photographs Now Available - The Archives is pleased to announce that over twelve thousand photographs from the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay (OTR) – showing virtually every torchbearer tha...
4 days ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Vancouver voters: Think about the city you want before you vote (Elizabeth Murphy in Vancouver Sun) - We have paraphrased the title, but here is the full text of a op ed in the Vancouver Sun on October 9, 2018. Very timely, as the civic election is on Octob...
4 days ago
Smart Growth America

How cities can reduce traffic instead of just ensuring more of it - A new approach to addressing the potential transportation impacts of new development in urban areas, outlined in a new report by our State Smart Transpo...
5 days ago
Home: Free Sociology!

A Very Imby Election - Vancouver’s heading into an exciting municipal election! Yes, yes, it’s exciting in all the normal ways elections are exciting: rah, rah, I really want my ...
5 days ago
Ombú

Zaha Hadid, was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize,... - *Zaha Hadid*, was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize, in 2004. Here my wooden interpretetion of *The Richard and Lois Rosenth...
6 days ago
Come here to me!

The Tenants Leagues of 1930s Dublin - At night we lie in filthy beds Scratching our aching lousy heads. Broken by the thought of rent For a room in a stinking tenement. -excerpt from ‘The Workl...
6 days ago
Urbanist.co

Bright Lights, Big City: Solar Power in the Urban Sprawl - Ultimately the point of green technology is to help us coexist with Mother Nature instead of intruding all over her backyard, flattening it, and putting ...
6 days ago
Thinking City

Inside the decline of London’s youth clubs - Marcus Lipton Youth Club is one of London’s few remaining centres amid exclusionary regeneration and government cuts to youth services. Writer and youth wo...
1 week ago
Municipal Dreams

Council Housing in Thetford before 1939: No ‘borough as small had done more’ - Often in London I shall think of Thetford and wonder if it is still alive … No one would notice … Continue reading →
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Economics of Place

…about my trip to Oklahoma to talk Flint Water and Michigan’s broken municipal finance system - Dan Gilmartin to Deliver SaveMICity Messaging in Oklahoma
1 week 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:
1 week ago
City Block

More charts from my obsessive Metro trip tracking - After fiddling with my spreadsheet full of tracking the individual metro railcars I’ve ridden, I’ve got a few more charts to show my year-plus worth of M...
1 week ago
Lewis N. Villegas

The Transit Pyramid Network - One of the reasons to build a Regional Transit Nework is to solve transportation problems. Another is to open up new opportunities when supplies are runnin...
1 week ago
rethink urban

This Story has a Process… all it needs is a Cast (An Essay on CPTED Community of Practice) - Lately, intensifying crises of homelessness have been feeding several major conversations in Greater Victoria and elsewhere in Canada. Angry social and ne...
1 week ago
City Observatory

Does your neighborhood help kids succeed? - The Opportunity Atlas: Stunning neighborhood maps of economic opportunity Some of the most important research findings of the past decade have come from th...
1 week ago
The Corner Side Yard

Curated Diversity in Chicago - From a citywide perspective, Chicago does indeed look like this. At more local levels, it doesn't. Source: prweek.comI came across a very intriguing pre...
1 week ago
Witold Rybczynski

LOOKING NORTH - I attended McGill University, which is sometimes described as “the Harvard of the North.” After reading Ross Douthat’s column on the Ivy League in today’s ...
1 week ago
The Better Block

New Ideas in Euclid - NOACA, the Metropolitan Planning Organization for parts of Ohio, is trying something a little new. They are creating a library of supplies and tools so tha...
1 week ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Vancouver Public Library: New Roof Garden - Underwhelmed
1 week 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 ...
1 week ago
Guggenheim Blogs

Photographer and Witness: A Q&A with Artist Akram Zaatari - [image: A still from Akram Zaatari's video Her + Him, showing photographic portrait of a young woman] Van Leo, one of the last studio photographers of his...
1 week ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Win-Win Solutions for Climate Protection and Health - The Call to Action on Climate and Health is an ambitious plan to achieve both global climate and health goals. Planners can help identify win-win solutions...
2 weeks ago
Small Homes BC Society

Summit Speaker: September 25, 2018 - In case you missed our September 25 newsletter, here it is: https://mailchi.mp/d20d679186c9/summit-speaker-save-50-be-a-presenter-more. Stay informed, sign...
2 weeks ago
Slow Streets

Why Public Spaces Work in Montreal - This essay examines Montreal, QC and how the city has successfully created public space where people want to spend their evenings, weekends, and free time....
2 weeks ago
Cities Matter

Supersize my City: Super for Some - Is it the growth we want? I have been thinking about the increasing cost of Auckland Council. Is it simply a sign of growth, or is it something to do with...
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks ago
Geoff Boeing

New Article: Complexity in Urban Form and Design - My article, Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design, is now in-press for publication at Urban Design International. Cities are complex systems ...
2 weeks ago
rjohnthebad

Return On Brain Damage -the small developer’s key metric - There’s an old joke. Where does wisdom come from? Experience. Where does experience come from? Lack of wisdom. Real Estate Finance has a lot of technic...
2 weeks ago
WorldWide Wickens

Has the SmartTrack plan left the station at Coxwell? - The following post illustrates potential flaws in the SmartTrack and Regional Express Rail planning and assessment process by looking at the case of an alm...
2 weeks ago
Austin On Your Feet

Three-month returns for CapRemap look very positive and what is happening to the UT shuttle? - A few months ago, Austin revamped its bus system, making a sweep of changes to routes known as CapRemap . The new system made a number of bus routes run mo...
3 weeks ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Design Canada -
3 weeks ago
Modacity

Women in Urbanism: Catarina Gutierrez Brings Inclusivity to Aotearoa’s Cycling Community - [image: Credit: RAD Bikes] Credit: RAD Bikes *The following is a guest post by **Emma McInnes** from **Women in Urbanism Aotearoa** and Sustainable Trans...
3 weeks ago
This City Life

Your Local Government Elections are Coming! Get Informed - With many local mayors not seeking re-election, numerous independent candidates, and a referendum on electoral reform, this year’s civic elections on Oc...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Ryan Gravel

Atlanta Business Chronicle > “Gravel [called] it a sham.” - (press.) It’s a time-tested strategy to make sure community engagement delivers the recommendations you want. MARTA’s project evaluation, handful of meetin...
4 weeks ago
Grandview Heritage Group

Next GHG Meeting: 20th September - After our usual summer break, the Grandview Heritage Group will commence its next series of monthly meetings this coming Thursday, 20th September, at 7:00p...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
The Urbanist

Is Melbourne’s promised loop rail line justified by jobs growth in suburban centres? - There's very little reason to think the Andrews government's promised suburban loop rail line will catalyse jobs growth in suburban centres on a scale th...
5 weeks ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Why do we care about the labour share of income? - And by 'we', I mean 'Canadians'. A lot has been said and written about the decline in the labour share of income, usually calculated as total employee comp...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

The Cities of Central China: Urban Development Case Studies in Wuhan - Researchers Carl Hooks and Allison Sherlock reflect on trends in urban development on the high streets of Wuhan, China.
1 month ago
mssinenomineblog

Vancouver’s Curb Cuts – Nothing to Brag About. - “You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.” – Joseph Helle...
1 month ago
Rebel Metropolis

Our Cities Need Socialism - Remember in 2016 when the McResistance told us that fighting for progressive causes was getting put on hold while all effort would be focused on blocking T...
1 month ago
Real Estate Defined

Comparing homicide trends in US and Canadian Cities - Following up to my earlier post about crime trends in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, I was curious to see how the three biggest Canadian cities compare t...
1 month ago
Born to Walk

Paddling Newfoundland - Stand-up paddleboarding is usually associated with places defined by warm waters. Like, say, Belize. Newfoundland, where the Atlantic Ocean off the east co...
1 month 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
1 month ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Shedding light on Portage and Main - [image: Brent B blog 1] *By Brent Bellamy, Creative Director and Architect* *Republished with permission courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press. * For 40 y...
1 month ago
Beasley & Associates

Brampton 2040 Vision: Community Engagement - Urbanism is nothing without community involvement, and the Brampton 2040 vision is proof. Here are two videos that show how Bramptonians shaped a vision fo...
2 months ago
Connecting Dots . . .

Cranking Up Connecting Dots Again - Well THAT took long enough. Forgive the egregiously long time between posts, dear readers, but I just wanted to let you know that the hiatus is over. I’m...
2 months ago
City Beautiful 21

Meetings on The 203 Project – Library & ArtsCenter Space – TODAY! - Just a quick note to everyone this morning- the Town of Carrboro has been pushing the word out that there are not one but TWO meetings being held TODAY, Au...
2 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....
2 months ago
Urban Workbench

Prototype Small Scale Solutions - As a resort community, Revelstoke sees a lot of tourist traffic in the downtown, both pedestrians and vehicles. Additionally, as a community to over 7,500 ...
2 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...
2 months ago
the republic of less

Caught in the Rain - Summer has arrived in our part of the world–long days, heat on your back, first morning coffee on the front step, dinner out on the back deck–so let’s talk...
2 months ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

Congratulations to Natalie Telewiak - Michael Green Architecture (MGA) is pleased to announce the promotion of Natalie Telewiak from Senior Architect to the newest Principal at the firm. Wit...
3 months ago
Urban Springtime

Playable cities: summary - *Children's daily lives are affected mostly by decisions made by parents, teachers and urban planners. Together they influence where, how and how long chi...
3 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...
3 months ago
BCRobyn

How big is Vancouver Island? - How big is Vancouver Island? It’s big. Bigger than entire countries, states, and provinces. It’s so big, you could spend several weeks exploring Vancouv...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 months 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 months 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.
4 months 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 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 months ago
Yuri Artibise

Community Land Trusts: Building Homes We Can Afford - Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a largely “uncharted” vehicle with the potential to retain much needed affordable housing, and finance future sustainabl...
6 months ago
Yurbanism

Community Land Trusts: Building Homes We Can Afford - Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a largely “uncharted” vehicle with the potential to retain much needed affordable housing, and finance future sustainabl...
6 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 ...
7 months ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
7 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 …
7 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.*...
7 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 ...
7 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 months ago
Urbanthinkers

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

The Vancouver Is Near Things Maps - From my presentation to the Vancouver City Council on Wednesday, November 29
10 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...
10 months ago
PlannerDan

The Ins and Outs of Sidewalk Cafes -
11 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...
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
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
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
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...
2 years ago
CitySpot

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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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