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Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Natchez at Nawlins: 1903 - The Mississippi River circa 1903. "Packet steamer *Natchez* at New Orleans." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

A proposal for a DCResidentCulturePass in DC - *This poster from the 1970s advertised free admissions nights at museums in New York City and was designed by Alan Peckolick, who recently died ("Alan Pec...
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Smart Growth America

Announcing the winners of the Safe Streets Academy - Scores of cities are eager to build safer streets for all of their residents, but many also quickly discover the plethora of barriers that make it diffi...
2 hours ago
AuthentiCity

Vancouver’s unbuilt leisure palace - While working on rehousing some of our map collection, I recently came across drawings from one of the more interesting unrealised development projects in ...
3 hours ago
Gordon Price

Mansplaining, Planning, and the Need for Gender Equity - New York Times Image-Mansplaining Statue Alissa Walker is a talented writer, Curbed.com’s Urbanism editor and lives in Los Angeles. … Continue reading →
3 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Throwback Thursday with Carole Teller’s Photos - You may know that every Thursday, social media (Instagram especially) is abuzz with #tbt. The […] (Visited 21 times, 21 visits today)
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Spacing Vancouver

EVENT: Heritage Vancouver Top 10 Tour & Talk – Chinatown, Aug 26th - Heritage Vancouver Top 10 Tour + Talk – Chinatown: Historic Urban Landscapes DATE: August 26th 2:00PM-4:00PM LOCATIONS: Chinese Cultural Centre Courtyard...
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Jak's View of Vancouver v.3

Image: Stairway To Heaven -
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ATL Urbanist

Buckhead master plan gets urbanism right - threadatl: Kudos to the authors of Buckhead’s new master plan! There are some very savvy, urbanist-y statements in it. Below are three good passages: 1....
5 hours ago
Changing Vancouver

31 West Pender Street - Here’s the Pender Hotel in 1977, although at that time it was called the Wingate Hotel. Today it has a new name, Skwachays Lodge, and it’s effectively a ne...
6 hours ago
The Pop-Up City

New Public Space On The Roof Of A Car Park - A public observation deck was recently opened on the roof of a multi-story parking garage in Peckham, South London. *Read more →*
7 hours ago
The South Fraser Blog

In Conversation: Third Annual Transit Report Card on BIV Radio - 2017 Transit Report Card of Major Canadian Regions Earlier this week, I chatted with Kirk LaPointe and Tyler Orton on Business In Vancouver Radio about t...
8 hours ago
John O'Callaghan

Towards a new busking policy for Sydney - The Council of the City of Sydney (The City) recognises the “life and colour buskers bring to the local area, from playing music, singing and dancing to al...
13 hours ago
Meeting of the Minds

Transportation Communications: No One Told Me It Would Be This Hard - As the leader of a transportation agency, there is no shortage of people ready to tell me how technology is going to revolutionize the way we do business...
14 hours ago
Free Public Transit

What is the true cost of cars and sprawl - Those infants with acute malnutrition at #alSabeen Hospital in Sanaa, #Yemen taken by Maad alZikry. February 8,2017. pic.twitter.com/XKEEKgjESq — AEJ خليل...
18 hours ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

BC Election priority: ending big money in politics (Elizabeth Murphy, Vancouver Sun, July 10, 2017) - (Here we post a revision of this article, with author’s permission.) By Elizabeth Murphy, Vancouver Sun, Monday, July 10, 2017 https://elizabethmurphyblog...
21 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

At Sandys Row Synagogue - Author and artist Rachel Lichtenstein writes about Sandys Row Synagogue, accompanying Morley Von Sternberg‘s photographs of one of Spitalfields’ magnificen...
22 hours ago
The Urbanist

Is Melbourne’s liveability gong mostly bullshit? - The media and politicians continue to give it credibility but they know the EIU's 'world's most liveable city' gong has little bearing on the life of res...
22 hours ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Removal of Railway Crossing Signals: Arbutus at 12th - I know that recently I read somewhere about the hopes of preserving the railway heritage of the Arbutus Greenway. It had a lyrical bit about nostalgia for ...
1 day ago
The Mainlander

Vancouver Mural Festival: The Present Is A Gift For Developers - [image: Thompson Square Park Riots, New York City, August 6, 1988. Photograph by Ángel Franco, The New York Times] Vancouver Mural Festival, at the core of...
1 day ago
Architect This City

A story about Toronto - Marcus Gee of the Globe and Mail recently published “a made-up story about Toronto that never appeared, but should.” It goes like this: *Toronto city ha...
1 day ago
Parksify: Exploring Public Space

Why Public Spaces Need to be More Diverse - Many of our public spaces look similar, here’s how we can fix that *Help fund Parksify **by **becoming a Supporting Member today** for just $5 a month. You...
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Michael Geller's Blog

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Born to Walk

I would walk 500 miles … - … although, with all due respect to the Proclaimers and the catchy 1988 hit from one of Scotland’s favourite bands, not to mention my obsesson with all thi...
1 day ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

The makings of a successful cycle street - The ‘cycle street’ concept is a familiar one to cycle campaigners – a street where, it is claimed, cycling has priority, and ‘cars are guests’, sometimes w...
1 day ago
urban75 blog

London Soho Square: The Hari Krishna guys go electric - They’ve been seen (and heard) percussin’ and chantin’ their way around Soho Square in central London for decades, but back in the day the Hari Krishna gang...
1 day ago
Pedestrian Observations

Infrastructure for Mature Cities - A post by Aaron Renn just made me remember something I said in the Straphangers Campaign forum ten years ago. I complained that New York was building too l...
1 day ago
Changing City Updates

2250 Yukon Street - This is another Mount Pleasant industrial/office project. It’s designed by Florian Maurer (of Penticton) for Fast+Epp, a noted local firm of structural eng...
1 day ago
mssinenomineblog

Time For A New Approach to Disability Policy in BC – Part One – Why - This is the first in a series about disability policy in BC. Part one is intended to deal with why we need a dramatic shift in approach. We have a new ...
1 day ago
City Observatory

Why we’re talking about Portland’s freeway widening proposal - Portland is a bellwether for transportation policy; is it going to take a giant step backward? Last month, the Oregon Legislature passed a $5.3 billion tra...
2 days ago
Come here to me!

‘Gentlemen Only – Ladies Served in Lounge’ - Following on from their excellent exhibition on Heffo’s Army and the phenomenon of Dublin’s 1970s GAA support, the Little Museum of Dublin is currently hos...
2 days ago
Real Estate Defined

Ontario hit peak auto sales in 2016; 2017 could be even higher… - Over 820,000 cars and trucks were sold in Ontario last year (2016), almost doubling total motor vehicle sales in 1981. The chart below shows total annual m...
2 days ago
Rebel Metropolis

Dodge Markets Their Cars to Sociopaths, It’s No Wonder Nazis Love Them - Last Saturday during a march against white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia, a man drove a Dodge Challenger into the crowd, killing at least one and ...
3 days ago
Market Urbanism

NIMBY Contradictions - Ever since zoning was invented in the 1920s, homeowners have argued that limits on density and on multifamily housing are necessary to protect property val...
3 days ago
Ephemeral New York

Identifying an eerie drugstore in a 1927 painting - The “eerie nocturnal view” of this corner apothecary painted by Edward Hopper in 1927 is easy to get lost in. At first glance, Silbers Pharmacy looks like ...
3 days ago
Average Joe Cyclist

Make Cycling Normal Again – What We Learned from Cycling in Paris - When we were kids, cycling was a normal part of everyday life. We just got on our bikes and started pedaling! These days, we have to dress up as if we ar...
4 days ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Thinking about Costs and Benefits of Immigration - I find this a useful way to organise my thoughts about the costs and benefits of immigration. It may work for you too. I start out with a neutral benchmark...
4 days ago
Urban Demographics

An R library to analyze and map John Snow's 1854 Cholera data - As many of you will know, an English physician called John Snow mapped the cholera outbreak in the Soho district of London in 1854. That map would later be...
5 days ago
Economics of Place

Detroit Art - Here are three newest paintings from yours truly. All are oil on canvas, 24×36. The place: Detroit. A city with personality makes a great subject.
5 days 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...
6 days ago
Thinking City

The Democratic Monument: rethinking Britain’s town halls - by Adam Nathaniel Furman What town halls are, their names, their forms, their programmes, and the way they relate to the public and the city has changed dr...
6 days ago
TED Blog

A sobering new video from Beverly and Dereck Joubert on World Lion Day - Documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert have worked to conserve wildlife in Africa for more than 30 years. Last year, I visited the Jouberts in o...
1 week ago
Urbanist.co

Walking or Biking? That is the Question - One of the most convenient things about living close to work is that you may not have to drive. Instead of sitting in morning or afternoon traffic, you c...
1 week ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Art of Ponics - Mediametic, a cultural institution in Amsterdam, has installed its very own urban agricultural system 'aquaponics'. A new standard for the future?
1 week ago
Modacity

On Sidewalk Cycling and the Democratization of Our Streets - *We're in the midst of a self-imposed hiatus from writing new blog material, as we're busy hustling behind-the-scenes on our first full-length book. But...
1 week ago
Museum of Vancouver

E. Pauline Johnson: Texts and Stories -
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An Urban Strategist's Musings

A Little Lost - I quickly got over the emotions of leaving Toronto. I never thought I would head to Alberta. Los Angeles was easy. Edmonton was a culture shock. Neverthele...
1 week ago
The Corner Side Yard

Detroit -- The Movie - Actors Will Poulter (left) and Anthony Mackie in a scene from "Detroit". Source: parlemag.comI guess there was always going to be a difference between th...
1 week ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Multimodal Transportation for Economic Freedom, Opportunity, and Security - Motor vehicles are expensive to own and operate. Many lower-income households spend more on transportation than they can afford due to a lack of affordable...
1 week ago
Mountain Doodles

Millennials Redux - Catching up with my local news reading last night I stumbled about another new report on millennials. The notion that millennials are fleeing Vancouver i...
1 week ago
Austin On Your Feet

How my cat is like a construction technology evangelist - I have been writing this blog on and off for 5 years or so. Coincidentally, that’s about the same amount of time I have shared a home with my feline life p...
1 week ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Strong fire-safety measures critical - [image: Brent B blog 1] *By Brent Bellamy, Creative Director and Architect* *Republished with permission courtesy of the Winnipeg Free Press. *In June, ...
2 weeks ago
Geoff Boeing

Isochrone Maps with OSMnx + Python - How far can you travel on foot in 15 minutes? Urban planners use isochrone maps to show spatial horizons (i.e., isolines) that are equal in time. Isochro...
2 weeks ago
Home: Free Sociology!

What we talk about when we talk about a “housing crisis” - What do we talk about when we talk about a housing crisis? People doing without any kind of housing? People living in inadequate housing? Crowding together...
2 weeks ago
Architecture Tourist

Tiny Church on 8th at Fielder Awaits Mixed Use-ification - I call it the Octane Coffee District and I have a secret parking spot when it's busy over there. I take 8th street down from the Marietta Street ridge and ...
2 weeks ago
Municipal Dreams

Growing up on the Speke Estate, Liverpool: a personal perspective - One of the most important aspects of this blog has been to give voice to the experience and views of … Continue reading →
2 weeks ago
Grandview Heritage Group

Grandview Database v 16 - We have today uploaded a new and updated version of the Grandview Database. This version incorporates more than 2100 new and amended data points since th...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
Yuri Artibise

Happy Birthday CHF BC! - I sit on the board of the Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia Today we are celebrating our 35th anniversary. Given my excitement about th...
2 weeks ago
Yurbanism

Happy Birthday CHF BC! - I sit on the board of the Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia Today we are celebrating our 35th anniversary. Given my excitement about th...
2 weeks ago
rethink urban

Placemaking – At the Heart of the Matter - Is it feasible that placemaking can be at the heart of everything we build? Of course it can – and, first we need to understand its importance and why it’...
3 weeks ago
This City Life

Come Visit Grandma’s House this Weekend in an East Vancouver Laneway - [image: image] *Kitsch, cookies and nostalgia with an East Van twist.* The Vancouver Public Space Network is transforming an East Vancouver laneway this S...
3 weeks ago
Urban Finland

Global warming is slowly changing life in Finnish cities - Fighting climate change is unavoidable to save the planet. But for everyday life, the future has already arrived in urban Finland. To soften global warming...
3 weeks ago
Past Tense

Guitar players with the 6th Field Co. Corp of Engineers... - Guitar players with the 6th Field Co. Corp of Engineers Somewhere in Vancouver between 1915 and 1917. I so wonder what they sounded like (though their a...
3 weeks ago
Urban Scrawl

Finding the Right Path for Transit in a Smaller Community - As many of our readers know, I currently work as a transportation planner for a Calgary-based firm called WATT Consulting Group. I'm based out of the compa...
3 weeks ago
Witold Rybczynski

COPYCATS - “Our lust for originality is wrecking the city, delivering a rash of formally new, but ultimately anti-urban hideous skyline baubles reducing city-making t...
3 weeks ago
Frances Bula

City puts on a big push to demo new programs for lower-cost housing: rentals geared to income, infills - The Vision council is using the slow summer months to push out lots of news on its planned “housing reset” — new policy aimed at trying to shape supply in ...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

SOLD OUT!!! - We are thrilled to announce that the first run of the Tall Wood Buildings book has been sold out! In this month’s issue of Canadian Architect, David Vall...
3 weeks ago
Livable Portland

UN Undersecretary-General: “Supply and demand are not sufficient to guarantee housing affordability” - The former chair of the UN’s Habitat III conference says, “If you leave the market alone, it’s going to be a spiral of prices.” Joan Clos, former Mayor of...
3 weeks ago
A Cartographic View

An RER Fantasy for Montreal - Montreal is home to Canada's most well-utilized heavy rail system, the Metro, which sees one-and-a-quarter million boardings on the average weekday - 30%...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

Buy American Sprawl - The American Action Forum recently released a critique of “Buy America” laws on the basis that they place undue hardship on transit agencies and set a ceil...
4 weeks ago
Own Your City

The Starter Home, Revisited - On the heels of a recent survey that found more than 50% of young professionals would like to purchase a home in Toronto, the Toronto Region Board of Trade...
5 weeks ago
Opticos Design

The Top Seven Things I Teach About Form-Based Planning and Zoning - Having taught form-based planning and zoning academically and professionally over the past ten years, there are a few key concepts I make it a point to t...
5 weeks ago
Buildings are cool

Architects Do It All Night Long - The nocturnal secrets of the mysterious architect are exposed in this tell-all tale.
5 weeks ago
City Block

WMATA’s Parking Concession - WMATA is facing a budget gap – not just for this year, but a systemic and growing fiscal deficit. Last year. the agency tested the waters for a long-term...
5 weeks ago
Urban Workbench

BC Wildfires 2017 - There’s a lot to consider with how quickly these wildfire grew and how communities and agencies are reacting and responding. The best news is that proactiv...
5 weeks ago
rjohnthebad

Arrrgh! How do we start a productive conversation about Inclusionary Zoning? (Part I) - I live in Portland Oregon. Moved here last December. Last year Oregon’s legislature removed a prohibition on Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) which now allows cit...
5 weeks ago
Lewis N. Villegas

Fireworks on the 4th of July - Ahead of the G20 Summit China ups the ante with surrogate Kim Jong Un firing an ICBM on U.S. Independence Day.
1 month ago
Beasley & Associates

Brampton searching for new vision after hire of urban planner | Toronto Star - An article about our plans for the city of Brampton: https://www.thestar.com/news/2017/06/26/brampton-searching-for-new-vision-after-hire-of-urban-planner.html
1 month ago
Guggenheim Blogs

“Sublime Rhythms”: Vivid Lithographs by Artist and Collector Katherine S. Dreier - [image: Detail: Page from Katherine S. Dreier’s 40 Variations (1942). Guggenheim Library Special Collections. Photo: Kristopher McKay] Inspired by two sig...
1 month 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 month ago
The Better Block

Exchange House: The First Four Months - We were gathered around a makeshift work desk. We had pulled out a few chairs to sit on. The house we were in, though renovated, was empty of any actual fu...
1 month ago
Howard Blackson

“Quotes of the Day…” - “The true value of urbanism occurs when are able to interact with each other. These physical connections will redefine our ability to both endure and thriv...
2 months ago
MetroVanWatch

Translink AGM and June Board Meeting, June 23, 2017 (Fri) - TransLink Annual General Meeting http://www.translink.ca/en/About-Us/Events-Calendar/2017/june/TransLink-AGM.aspx Jun 23, 2017, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. TransLink ...
2 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...
2 months ago
The Municipal Art Society of New York

MAS Comments to CB6 on the Proposed Rezoning of Sutton Place - Full Title: MAS Comments on East River Fifties/Sutton Place Text Amendment, Manhattan Community Board 6, ULURP No. N170282ZRM & CEQR No. 17DCP046M, Manhatt...
2 months ago
OpenCity Projects

Design for Diversity Toolkit - Our 32-page toolkit is a guide to help communities and city leaders create more inclusive public spaces for culturally diverse communities. It includes s...
2 months ago
the republic of less

Wizardly Stitchery - When you first come across a painting that turns out not to be a painting, but rather an arrangement of pieces of fabric sewn together, you might feel tric...
2 months ago
Just Sustainabilities

Call for papers: Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in North America - Call for papers: Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in North America Edited by: Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone, Tufts University. Overview ...
2 months 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 ...
2 months 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…
2 months ago
Ryan Gravel

Gravel > Our Mississippi Moment. - (ideas.) I think it is important we acknowledge that our current national crisis is playing out exactly as expected. Although shocking, the news from the ...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Tribeca Trust

Candidates Are Coming to Tribeca; Who Sells the Best Sourdough in Tribeca? - Do Democracy a Favor and Come Meet the Candidates for City Council Save the Date Next Wednesday, May 17 What: Candidate’s Forum for our District 1 City ...
3 months ago
OPEN: design collaborative

Barbicania -
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Ombú

Some days in MarrocosOwn photo by Andrea StingaOmbú Architecture - *Some days in Marrocos* Own photo by Andrea Stinga Ombú Architecture
3 months ago
WorldWide Wickens

Have Gardiner gridlock fears been ramped to the max? - By STEPHEN WICKENS On Monday, eight days after the end of the world, a Toronto TV newscast was still making a fuss about the shutdown of a Gardiner Express...
3 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

How to fund a Documentary Film - Welcome! I hope you are interested to know more about my upcoming documentary film, CHAMPIONS OF LITTLE MOUNTAIN. Since 2008 I’ve been producing and direct...
3 months ago
City Beautiful 21

Carrboro Parking Study Gathers Good Data, But We Need to Start Charging for Parking at ONE Lot - On Tuesday night, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen will take up a resolution to turn the recently completed Carrboro Parking Study into a plan for downtown p...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
myurbanist

how visual tools can guide the changing city - This week in Governing, I discuss how “photo-powered ‘urban diaries’ can give residents a powerful new way to contribute to the dialogue that shapes their ...
3 months ago
The Urban Observer

Copenhagen: Rooftops as an extension of the public space - The Danish capital Copenhagen (population 760,000) offers numerous inspiring examples of how to create a sustainable city. Currently it is developing a new...
4 months ago
planted city

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the..." - “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss...
4 months ago
Klaustoon's Blog

The [not so] Fine Line – A Conversation with Sophie Lovell - From left to right: Herzog & De Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Rafael Moneo, Alvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, PEter Eisenman, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Phi...
4 months ago
Urban Springtime

Governing Urban Diversity - *In the last decades cities have become more diverse than ever before. Individuals who at first sight appear to belong to a fixed group ma...
5 months ago
Mez Dispenser

Atlantic Uprising: How the east coast is leading the way on voting reform - Cross-posted on Huffington Post While we’ve all been distracted by the fallout of Donald Trump’s unexpected election as president, another important politi...
5 months ago
Urbalize

Finding Shelter in a Club - Architects do not enjoy themselves in a colorful bouncy castle, they celebrate in an inflatable club, shaped like an air-raid bunker and as black as the ni...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Slow Streets

Slow Streets is Visiting the Netherlands – 2017 - Slow Streets principal and co-founder Darren Proulx will be venturing across the ocean to the cycling capital of the world once again in 2017. Previously...
5 months ago
At the Helm of the Public Realm

KaBOOM! Charlotte Wins 3 Grants That Will Transform Our Public Spaces! - Keep your eyes on the Government Center Plaza, the Rail Trail, and bus stops on Beatties Ford Road over the next few months. Three applicants in Charlotte ...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
6 months 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.
7 months 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...
8 months 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...
8 months 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...
9 months ago
Rebuilding The Rust Belt

Anti-Trump march through North Philly neighborhood was more than cathartic - Wednesday 9 November 2016 was surreal and terrifying. After a day of struggling to focus at work, I felt the joyous relief of taking to the streets with m...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
City Motions

"When it comes to cities, because of the advances in engineering and construction technology in..." - “When it comes to cities, because of the advances in engineering and construction technology in recent decades, the process of deciding what to build and w...
10 months ago
City Love Blog

Designing Museums & Cities - “How does an urban designer end up running a dinosaur exhibition?!” This was definitely a question I had asked myself while working on the Lost Creatures e...
11 months ago
Cities Are Good For You

Summer, 1666 - ‘Certainly this year of 1666 will be a great year of action, but what the consequence of it will be, God Knows,’(1) Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary at the ...
11 months ago
Car Free Baltimore

Getting Around Baltimore, Car-Free! - When you are living in the city, having no car is a minor inconvenience, or is it? I come from Dallas, where you need a car to go anywhere. Every place i...
1 year ago
The New Urban

Ideal City: Laws of the Indies - Asunción Mita, Guatemala [video] - The Laws of the Indies, or *Las Leyes de los Indios*, dictated the Spanish colonies of the Hispanic Americas. These laws directives provided guideance as ...
1 year ago
Reurbanist

The Benefits of PokémonGo: Footfall, Draw & Leverage - Since the release of PokémonGo, there has been an influx of coverage in what many local business and retail centres are doing to capitalize on this increas...
1 year ago
5 Kids 1 Condo

Open House: A Video Tour of the Condo - Just last week the Georgia Straight – the main weekly arts and culture paper here in Vancouver – did a video interview with me as part of their “Open House...
1 year ago
Sean Bickerton

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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

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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