#Placemaking Comes to Vancouver Via @PPS_Placemaking @CityRepair

Post by Project for Public Spaces.

From The Atlantic Cities —Robert Moses Vs Jane Jacobs: The Opera

The legendary 1960s struggle pitted planning czar Robert Moses against neighborhood activist Jane Jacobs. Moses wanted to make the city easily navigable by car. During his reign, hedisplaced half a million people with highways. But the powerful planner met his match when he proposed an expressway through Lower Manhattan. Though she had little institutional support, Jacobs built a citizen coalition that ultimately defeated Moses. Read more: Robert Moses Vs. Jane Jacobs: The Opera - Amanda Erickson - The Atlantic Cities

From Shorpy — Detroit circa 1907Woodward Avenue from City Hall

Post by Shorpy Higginbotham.

Fighting Traffic with Rapid Transit

Post by Todd Litman.

Jane Jabobs in Fortune, 1958 — Downtown is for People

Jane Jacobs laid it all out in 1958! Republished Fortune article Downtown is for People @PPS_Placemaking http://t.co/F3irR2c0Id

— TheSidewalkBallet (@1sidewalkballet) April 21, 2014

David Suzuki in The Georgia Straight —Is it Time for a Real War on Cars?

Because many people, especially North Americans, can’t conceive of a world without cars for everyone, we overlook major problems caused by our private automobile obsession. We’re rightly outraged when a company like General Motors ignores faulty ignition switches in some of its vehicles, thought to have caused 13 deaths over 13 years. The massive recall that followed was justified and necessary. But as a headline on Treehugger’s website argues, “It's time for a bigger recall of a seriously defective product: The Car.” Read more: David Suzuki: Is it time for a real war on cars? | Georgia Straight, Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

City Manager Says: Stop Sprawl? — Eliminate the Urban Containment Boundary

In 2008 as part of a 10 Year Official Community Plan Review then Nanaimo City Manager Gerry Berry explained to Council that the elimination of the Urban Containment Boundary would halt sprawl by stemming low density development in the Regional District. Seriously. Listen to the logic and urbanist sounding jargon he offers to make his case...

"Increasingly Council is called upon to act on some very complex issues, and it's an organized complexity - so often effects in one area aren't necessarily linear and they're felt elsewhere." — Nanaimo City Manager Gerry Berry, 2008 appropriates some Jane Jacobs speak. What the hell he means by this still escapes me...