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Spitalfields Life

So Long, Pamela Freedman - Pamela Freedman died on Monday at the fine age of ninety-seven Pamela Freedman at Sandys Row Synagogue by Jeremy Freedman Pamela Freedman was a West End gi...
5 hours ago
Beasley & Associates

The Benefits of 15-Minute Cities: How Canada’s Urban Areas Stack Up - Vancouver may not totally be the “paradise city” that the Globe called us, but it is true to say that almost three-quarters of residents enjoy the benefits...
7 hours ago
Todd Litman / Planetizen

Smarter Transportation Pricing, Please! Responding to Criticisms of Road Tolls and Parking Fees. - Many transportation problems are virtually unsolvable without efficient road and parking pricing. When people say "I oppose road tolls," they are really sa...
9 hours ago
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Following Backlash, City Drops Plan for Hotel Special Permit Requirement South of Union Square – Push for Real Protections - Following a huge backlash from neighborhood residents, the City has withdrawn its much criticized rezoning plan to require special permits for new hotels i...
9 hours ago
Gordon Price

Brussels Belgium Skipped Apartments, Went to “Maisons de Maitre”. - Bloomberg’s Feargus O’Sullivan has been writing an interesting series on housing in world cities. He took a look at Brussels Belgium where instead of opt...
9 hours ago
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints

Night Game: 1950 - June 30, 1950. "Cleveland Municipal Stadium during Cleveland-Detroit night baseball game." Photo by Carl McDow. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs ...
11 hours ago
mssinenomineblog

Statement on Bill C-7, An Act to Ammend MAID - My name is Gabrielle Peters. I am disabled. I am poor. I am poor because I am disabled. Picking who will be poor is a function of society. Bootstrap is a l...
11 hours ago
The South Fraser Blog

November 23 Council Meeting: West Country Hotel proposed redevelopment to include below-market rental and expanded Michaud Park - Early this year, the West Country Hotel shut its doors for good. On Monday night, Langley City council gave first and second reading to a zoning bylaw to...
14 hours ago
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

What should a domestic Marshall Plan/21st Century New Deal look like? - A number of Midwestern mayors wrote an op-ed published in the *Washington Post*, "Eight mayors: We need a Marshall Plan for Middle America," about the ne...
20 hours ago
Municipal Dreams

Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part I: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’ - I’m delighted to feature the first of two new posts by Steven Robb. Steven contributed an earlier post providing an … Continue reading →
21 hours ago
Pedestrian Observations

More on Station Costs - Talking to Marco Chitti about the history of Italian construction always feels me with hope. He’s been gathering data about metro construction in Milan and...
1 day ago
Architect This City

Vancouver is probably getting transport pricing - Earlier this month, Vancouver City Council approved a plan that will have staff developing a “transport pricing” strategy for the city’s core. (Transport p...
1 day ago
CityHallWatch: Tools for engagem...

Protest shuts down intersection at Clark and Hastings - A demonstration was held at the intersection of Clark and East Hastings on Monday, November 23, 2020. Clark Drive is one of the main entrances to the Port ...
1 day ago
Changing Vancouver

Vancouver General Hospital - This 1900s postcard shows the original buildings of the Vancouver General Hospital. The City’s first hospital buildings were in Downtown, but the activity ...
1 day ago
urban75 blog

The blues and browns of Finsbury Park in the autumn sunshine – 34 photos - One of the first of the great London parks laid out in the Victorian era, Finsbury PRK park borders the residential neighbourhoods of Harringay, Finsbury P...
1 day ago
Ephemeral New York

Don’t forget New York’s other November holiday - It’s been a good century or so since New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day. But in the late 18th and 19th centuries, this holiday—on November 25—was a majo...
1 day ago
TED Blog

An update on allegations about a TED speaker - It has come to TED’s attention that the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office is investigating sexual assault allegations against TED2016 speaker Adam ...
3 days ago
Smart Growth America

Helping communities face the difficult challenge of nuclear plant closure - Smart Growth America’s new Nuclear Closure Communities Technical Assistance program is supporting communities that are making the difficult transition wh...
4 days ago
AuthentiCity

Researcher Spotlight: Jennifer Chutter - Jennifer Chutter is a PhD candidate in the interdisciplinary cohort of the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Simon Fraser University. ...
5 days ago
Great Streets San Diego

Business Report: San Diego At Risk For New COVID-19 Restrictions - Health experts warn new restrictions are possible on businesses as COVID-19 case rates rise, the latest jobs report shows another drop in the unemployment ...
5 days ago
rethink urban

Welcome Dr. Trevor Hancock - I remember meeting Trevor a few years ago following a lecture I did at UVIC, and I even got to enjoy a piece of cake to celebrate his retirement. Since th...
5 days ago
Market Urbanism

yes, minimum parking requirements do limit development - I and many other scholars have argued that minimum parking requirements increase the cost of housing (by taking up land for parking that could be used fo...
6 days ago
ATL Urbanist

I 💕 this tweet.The lack of parking options in West Buckhead... - I 💕 this tweet. The lack of parking options in West Buckhead ended up foiling far-right protestors who wanted to surround the governor’s mansion and com...
6 days ago
The Corner Side Yard

CSY Repost: Cities, Idealism and Reality - A store looted in Chicago's Loop as seen August 10, 2020. Source: time.com *(Note: Exactly three months ago to the day, I posted this piece below that ...
6 days ago
MetroVanWatch

Petition: Say “No” To Roberts Bank Container Terminal Two (RBT2) in Delta (by Dec 2) - We are sharing this poster from Against Port Expansion with our readers. If you care, take action to oppose Terminal 2 by signing the petition to the House...
1 week ago
The Mainlander

Defund VPD: Divesting from the police, investing in the people - Defunding the police seems to be the topic for the last few months. Everyone is wondering: should it be done, or should it not be done. In my view it’s the...
1 week ago
Real Estate Defined

Ildefons Cerdà’s formula and the Barcelona Superblocks - A few months ago I read a fascinating article from Harvard on Ildefons Cerdà’s 1860 Plan for the Urban Expansion of Barcelona, and specifically, how and wh...
1 week ago
City Observatory

More cynical greenwashing from the highway industry - There’s no shortage of cynical greenwashing to sell climate-killing highway widening projects GeorgiaDOT and AASHTO have a new PR gimmick to promote the sa...
1 week ago
This Big City

The Wrong Kind of People? Managing a Refugee Crisis in Europe’s Most Densely-Populated Country - The Southern European island nation of Malta is generally considered to be either a single urban region home to two major cities or one of the world’s mo...
1 week ago
Michael Geller's Blog

Looking toward Lillooet Vancouver Sun Westcoast Homes & Design November 14th, 2020 - Real estate: Looking toward Lillooet The Fraser Canyon town is attracting city dwellers with an active lifestyle and affordable housing Author of the art...
1 week ago
Average Joe Cyclist

The Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide for Cyclists - In this gift guide for cyclists we offer gift suggestions for cyclists, grouped into price ranges. Whether you are looking for a Secret Santa gift under ...
1 week ago
The Pop-Up City

How a Remote Town in Japan Became a Waste-Free Example for the World - For almost two decades, Kamikatsu has led the way in becoming free of waste.
1 week ago
Urban Demographics

The history of humankind is the history of urbanization - The history of humankind is the history of urbanization. Few images speak to this phrase so well as these maps showing how the spatial distributional of...
2 weeks ago
Witold Rybczynski

PARISIAN PUZZLE - Every time I leave the Larkin Building in downtown Philadelphia, where we live, I admire the office building across the street. It’s a French Renaissance p...
2 weeks ago
Meeting of the Minds

Optimization Tools to Help Transit Agencies Recover - I spoke last week with Krishna Desai from Cubic Transportation, and we discussed three big problems facing transportation, and the ways that Cubic is appr...
2 weeks ago
Klaustoon's Blog

¿Por qué la Arquitectura se sigue dibujando? / Why is Architecture still being drawn? - Click to enlarge Next Saturday, November 14, I will be giving a two-hour seminar in the course ‘¿Por qué la Arquitectura se sigue dibujando? – Ocho Experie...
2 weeks ago
Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Presidents: do you get what you pay for? - In 1915, Woodrow Wilson earned $75,000 per year, or $1.9 million in 2018 dollars, for serving as President of the United States. The current incumbent of t...
3 weeks ago
Geoff Boeing

Off the Grid… and Back Again? - My article “Off the Grid… and Back Again? The Recent Evolution of American Street Network Planning and Design” has been published by the Journal of the Ame...
3 weeks ago
As Easy As Riding A Bike

Being reasonable - It was entirely predictable that the recent review of the Highway Code, which includes a rephrasing of the advice on ‘two abreast’ cycling, would provide f...
3 weeks ago
Howard Blackson

COVID-19 Cities… - Will COVID-19 ma
4 weeks ago
Howard Blackson

COVID-19 Cities… - Will COVID-19 ma
4 weeks ago
New Urbanism Blog

Small Farmhouse Sunrooms: Bright, Beautiful and Relaxing Ideas - There are many different ways in which you can still keep the charm of warm summer months alive in your home. Some do it by turning to styles like coastal ...
4 weeks ago
Blog - Number TEN: architecture, planning, design in Winnipeg & Victoria

Re-inventing School - [image: gregpic new] *By Greg Hasiuk, Partner + Practice Leader* The digitization of our world has led many to question whether we really need physical s...
5 weeks ago
Stephen Rees's blog

Internet Images of Old Trains - “You can now head over to a new collection at Flickr and search through an archive of 2.6 million public domain images, all extracted from books, magazines...
5 weeks ago
Home: Free Sociology!

BC Housing Platforms! - It’s election time in BC! And housing is back on the agenda, even if not quite as centrally as in past elections. Here I want to provide a quick basis for ...
5 weeks ago
Restless Urbanist

- A successful design requires the collaboration, participation, and consensus of many. In the public sector you have to get in…
1 month ago
the republic of less

by the sea, by the sea - Living by the sea can be a swell thing. Where we live, the breezes are mostly mild and scented with salt, sea shells, and mermaids. People, lots of people,...
1 month ago
Opticos Design

An Agile, Cost-Competitive, Alternative Approach to Class A Multifamily Living Using Missing Middle Housing, Part 2 - Case Study: Bungalows on the Lake at Prairie Queen, Papillion, NE The post An Agile, Cost-Competitive, Alternative Approach to Class A Multifamily Living...
1 month ago
Andy Boenau

One screen playing two movies - Scott Adams, the brilliant creator of Dilbert, has written a lot about persuasion. One of the concepts he talks about quite a bit is that two different pe...
1 month ago
Come here to me!

Colourful account of gay social spots in Dublin from an English visitor (1968) - George Lucas (born George Quirke) (1926–2014) was an English civil servant who documented his gay social life in a series of detailed personal diaries from...
1 month ago
Frances Bula

A “new generation of homeless people with brain injuries” means that just housing won’t be enough, say some mayors - The issue of what to do about the growing prevalence and size of camps or clusters on the street of homeless people is one that is turning into a top issue...
1 month ago
Urban Finland

Did the Virus Kill Helsinki? I Don’t Think So. - Debating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cities has occupied the urban discussion airspace across the globe. Finland is no exception. The mainstream...
2 months ago
Free Public Transit

Why we should say "Fight Racism" not "Black Lives Matter" - To achieve any progress for poor and working people anywhere, first we must be united. In the US the protests against racist police brutality have been g...
2 months ago
Ciudad Saludable

Safety 2016 World Conference – Tampere, Finland. - 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion The main theme for Safety 2016 was “From Research to Implementation”, experts in injury pre...
2 months ago
myurbanist

Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character now available for pre-order - This book will complete the trilogy that began with Urbanism Without Effort and Seeing the Better City. For those who seek an urbanism of distinctiveness...
2 months ago
MGA | Michael Green Architecture

MGA welcomes Mark Busse as new Director of Brand, Culture, and Community - Monday, August 31, 2020 (Vancouver, BC) – MGA | Michael Green Architecture is pleased to announce that Mark Busse has joined the firm as the new Director...
2 months ago
Ryan Gravel

Gravel > what’s an “appropriate” Confederate memorial? - (ideas.) Following my op-ed in The Guardian about an idea for what to do with the Confederate carving at Stone Mountain, I connected with a growing and di...
2 months ago
Lewis N. Villegas

The West Coast Charrette - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland called the post-Covid recovery 'Our Moment to Change the Future for the Better.' The West Coast Charrette explores 5 she...
3 months ago
Thinking City

Memories of Manila: neighbourhood change through one woman’s eyes - “Eventually, the past has to give in to the present.” In Grounded, filmmaker Tapio Snellman takes us to the Malate neighbourhood of Manila, with its high-r...
4 months ago
This City Life

Vancouver wants children and youth to help shape the city’s future - Several months ago, the City of Vancouver launched Vancouver Plan, the first city plan in 100 years. It asks Vancouverites big, broad questions on what t...
4 months ago
Urbanist.co

Ranking Cities to Ride Solo - A New Study Reports the Best Cities to Live Alone The past few months have been a lonely time for everyone. Due to social distancing regulations, the s...
4 months ago
Cities Matter

Preparing for a Post-Covid19 Economy: capacity building or building capability? - *We seem to have the pandemic under control - what next?* Now that community transmission has been eliminated in New Zealand and some rigour brought to bor...
4 months ago
5 Kids 1 Condo

We Won! Common Sense Prevails in ‘Bus Dad’ Case. - Today, the BC Court of Appeal released their reasons for judgment in my case against BC’s Ministry of Children & Family Development. In short, the Court al...
4 months ago
Changing City Updates

Princess Carriage Coloring Pages -
4 months ago
The Urbanist

Is public transport the future of our cities? - The pandemic might've reduced the competitiveness of public transport, but it hasn’t altered the main game appreciably – that still remains civilising cars
5 months ago
Livable Portland

Guardian (UK): The real cause of the housing crisis? - Profile of a new book that describes “…numerous actors in a complex network of landowners, housebuilders [developers], financial backers, professional bodi...
6 months ago
Austin On Your Feet

E-bikes and Families: an interview with Mary Pustejovsky - With the ongoing pandemic, the normal fare for this blog has been shut down. So we’re branching out into a new kind of content: an interview with Mary Pu...
6 months ago
Urban Food Revolution

Looking for seeds? - Find local (B.C.) organic varieties here, available by mail order: https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/collections/vegetables
7 months ago
Parksify: Exploring Public Space

Where To Learn Yoga Online - Yoga can be found all over nowadays, especially online on website like yogaburnreviewed.com/. However, this often also means there are lies and a lot of in...
7 months ago
ProtoCity - Prototyping the City

Mexico City and Washington DC – two capitals in comparison - Lukas Müller looks into Washington DC and Mexico City, and compares the two cities in terms of demography, socio-spatial inequality and global connectedness.
7 months ago
Grandview Heritage Group

GHG Zoom meeting on Thursday, April 16th, 7:00 - Hi dear GHG people, We’re going to try doing a GHG meeting on Zoom this Thursday. If you would like to participate, please send an e-mail to grandviewherit...
7 months ago
BCRobyn

Can I travel around BC during the COVID-19 pandemic? - Until this pandemic is over, we'll all need to stay at home and postpone our explorations for later.
7 months ago
Ombú

CIEN HOUSEBy PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSENvia divisare - *CIEN HOUSE* By PEZO VON ELLRICHSHAUSEN via divisare
7 months ago
Architecture Tourist

February 7, 2009: 1st Westside Arts Distrct Art Walk Terry's Tiny Review - Artists and galleries featured in these pictures: Kessenich Contemporary not active, Veronica Kessenich, Atlanta Contemporary (Art Center), Amy Pleasant, B...
8 months ago
Slow Streets

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9 months ago
Cap'n Transit Rides Again

When to go negative - Recently I wrote about how, in the nineties and early 2000s, discussions about transit advocacy were short on hope and full of negativity. Any positive on...
9 months ago
The Little Mountain Project

“The Last Word” at Little Mountain - So I was out in a snowstorm (at 33rd and Ontario St.) minding my own business when Mike McCardell of CTV walked by. Go to takebackthemountain.com to find o...
9 months ago
Yuri Artibise

Co-op Housing Lease Renewals in Vancouver - After years of waiting, the City announced the launch of a discussion paper on co-op housing lease renewals. The paper proposes four scenarios that "aim ...
9 months ago
Yurbanism

Co-op Housing Lease Renewals in Vancouver - After years of waiting, the City announced the launch of a discussion paper on co-op housing lease renewals. The paper proposes four scenarios that "aim ...
9 months ago
Modacity

Fortune Favors the Brave - [image: 1 copy.jpg] *First it was *Ghent*. Then *Birmingham*. And now *Auckland*. 2020 just might be the year of the Traffic Circulation Plan, a policy in...
9 months ago
Economics of Place

Podcast 15: The Community-Shaping Potential of Ride-Sharing Services - At the Michigan Municipal League’s Policy Forum on technology, smart cities, and big data, I sat down with Lilly Shoup, senior director of transportation a...
9 months ago
All About Cities

Top Reasons To Hire Mobile Locksmith Services In Ottawa - If you had the experience of being locked out of your car or home, you will never ask for the reasons to hire a mobileRead More
9 months ago
Guggenheim Blogs

Guggenheim Conservator Jeffrey Warda on Zarina and Her “Drawings Made of Shadow” - [image: Zarina, Untitled, 1977. 20 needle-pierced sheets of laminated paper, approximately 66 x 50.2 cm each. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purc...
10 months ago
Born to Walk

The year in SUP - Last weekend, I had planned to go for what would perhaps be my final paddle of 2019. Then, on Saturday night, the day-long rainfall that raised the river l...
11 months ago
Urban Springtime

Soft City: building density for everyday life - *Due to their increasing popularity cities are under pressure. To accommodate the influx of people, more and more buildings are being built in higher dens...
11 months ago
WorldWide Wickens

We need to get serious about getting the Ontario Line right - Heavy-handed bias in the project’s Initial Business Case undermines the credibility of the report and the project’s proponents, in government and at Metrol...
1 year ago
Tribeca Trust

2 – 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...
1 year ago
The Better Block

Reflections on the Burtonsville Placemaking Festival - The Burtonsville Placemaking Festival was a recurring dream for one particular resident of Montgomery County; in fact, co-Block Captain Sara Jensen could p...
1 year ago
In public space we trust

From security infrastructure scattered in the urban landascape... - From security infrastructure scattered in the urban landascape to urban design in the streets of Beirut: how to take public spaces back by repurposin...
1 year ago
OPEN: design collaborative

City Dreamers -
1 year ago
City Block

Two years of tracking my Metro trips - Two years ago, I started tracking my WMATA rides for extremely trivial reasons. After a while, my curiosity is now ingrained as a habit, a small bit of gam...
1 year ago
BldgBlog

Have Clock, Will Travel - [Image: From *The Hunt For Red October*, via Quora]. There’s a throwaway line in *The Hunt For Red October* where a submarine navigator jokes, “Give me a s...
1 year ago
Reurbanist

Rethinking retail’s role in animating streets and public spaces - For decades, planners, urban designers, and policy makers have advocated for street-facing ground floor retail space as a means of animating streets and pu...
1 year ago
Streets for Everyone

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

Sidewalk Design Parameters -
1 year ago
The Original Green | Steve Mouzon

2020 - The Tuscaloosa Astonishment (And What It Means For Towns All Over) *search** the Original Green Blog* I came to Tuscaloosa, Alabama on a gig 16 mo...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
charly wilder

Photo -
1 year 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
1 year 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
2 years 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...
2 years 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 …
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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:
2 years 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 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Vancouver Not Vegas

The German Report should be followed by a full public inquiry into money-laundering - Cartoon on BC casinos and money-laundering by Olson in the Courier, 2011 June 2018 has seen a return of public interest in casino corruption thanks to the ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Urbalize

How to lead change in Your City - The Barr Foundation, based in Boston-Massachusetts is one of the most inspiring innovative and active urban change makers we met at the Urban Future Confer...
2 years ago
OpenCity Projects

Ryerson Prof Teaching How to Design for Diversity - OpenCity Projects recently sat down with Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, an architect-planner and Associate Professor in Ryerson University’s School of Urban and R...
2 years ago
Museum of Vancouver

Spring Break Animation Workshop for Kids! - Photo: R2R Film Festival
2 years 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 ...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 years ago
Urbanthinkers

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

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

The Ins and Outs of Sidewalk Cafes -
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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.
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Gehl Architects / making cities for people ...

15 motivos para você agradecer por ser baixinha - 1. Quando você é uma pessoa baixinha, pode ver o copo meio vazio ou meio cheio. Até porque em um copo inteiro você pode se afogar. Brincadeirinha. 2. O mun...
3 years ago
smalltownurbanism

The Parklet Project - The Parklet Project was a success! We set up 3 parklets on Main Street and blocked a section of street to create a pop-up plaza last Saturday. The 3 Main S...
3 years ago
planted city

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the..." - “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss...
3 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.
3 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...
3 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...
4 years ago
Melissa Fong

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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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