Three generations of Vancouver planning leaders

3 generations of #Vancouver planning leaders; Spaxman, co-directors @LBeasleyyvr & McAfee, & me (plus @pricetags). pic.twitter.com/jy2HPONqPR

— Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian) October 31, 2015

From WIRED — 8 Cities that Show You What the Future Will Look Like

CITIES USED TO grow by accident. Sure, the location usually made sense—someplace defensible, on a hill or an island, or somewhere near an extractable resource or the confluence of two transport routes. But what happened next was ad hoc. The people who worked in the fort or the mines or the port or the warehouses needed places to eat, to sleep, to worship. Infrastructure threaded through the hustle and bustle—water, sewage, roads, trolleys, gas, electricity—in vast networks of improvisation. You can find planned exceptions: Alexandria, Roman colonial towns, certain districts in major Chinese cities, Haussmann’s Paris. But for the most part it was happenstance, luck, and layering the new on top of the old. Read more: 8 Cities That Show You What the Future Will Look Like | WIRED

From @MASNYC #SummitNYC — The City We Want!

A City of Possibilities A City by Design A Responsive City A Just & Equitable City http://t.co/qOQmamk2hT #SummitNYC pic.twitter.com/yNGiKZKAyc

— MASNYC (@MASNYC) October 13, 2015

#SummitNYC Tweets

Tweets from #Walk21Vie 2015

#walk21vie Tweets

From Bicycle Diaries / David Byrne — "Our cities are alive, just like us..."

Our cities are alive, just like us; they have both a deep intelligence that guides them and a physical presence. They’re...

Posted by The Sidewalk Ballet on Monday, October 19, 2015

From @CityLab — The Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs Opera Is Almost Here

The Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs Opera Is Almost Here @CityLab

Posted by The Sidewalk Ballet on Monday, October 19, 2015

Why bike? Here's 8 reasons

.@BrentToderian at #CanU7 "multimodal transportation gains due in part to evidence spread by social media". Agreed. pic.twitter.com/Xs8rMETDKm

— Tobi Nussbaum (@tobi_nussbaum) October 16, 2015

Council for Canadian Urbanism — Art and Science of Creating Meaningful Places

#CanU7 Tweets

Nov. 4th: #Victoria Walk the Talk with @BrentToderian @GVCC @VicPlacemaking

Pls join us Nov. 4th: Walk the Talk w @BrentToderian our fall #TransForm event w @VicPlacemaking #yyjevents pic.twitter.com/tiUtJ3FX2z

— GreaterVictoriaCycle (@GVCC) October 14, 2015

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#StreetoftheDay — Rue Alsace-Lorraine, Toulouse

Jenny Morris photo

Today my friend Jenny Morris, on her Toulouse morning walk turned a corner onto Rue Alsace-Lorraine and saw what she described as "a flotilla of umbrellas."

Jenny Morris photo