Monday, July 28, 2014

From CBC Radio — Ideas with Paul Kennedy
Witold Rybczynski: Art We Live In

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We love and hate them, but we can't escape them either - we're all obliged to live and work in buildings, and we all have strong f...
Friday, July 25, 2014

From Sustainable Cities Collective: #VisionZero — Traffic Deaths:
Sweden: 3/100,000 USA: 11.4/100,000

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Photo by the NYC Dept of Transportation / Flickr. Countries like Sweden have taken ambitious, holistic steps to improve traffic safety a...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Patrick Condon in The Tyee – Vancouver's
'Spot Zoning' Is Corrupting Its Soul

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Photo by  hradcanska   Why is Vancouver a place where developments increasingly spark conflicts, where frustrated developers must gamble...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

From @LeanUrbanism —
Lean Sprawl Repair – Mall Retrofit

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The past decade has seen the demise of hundreds of shopping centers and malls. Out of roughly 1,000 enclosed malls in the US, approximatel...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

Helsinki's plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 yrs @guardian

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Post by SFU Certificate Program for Community Economic Development .
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Big Ideas:
How do you fix a city in the 21st century?
@TorontoStar Via @PPS_Placemaking

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Post by Project for Public Spaces .

ICYMI: Don Cayo in The Sun —
Congestion may signify better productivity, not worse @LitmanVTPI

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More roads or cheaper-to-use roads — ones without tolls, for example — lead to less productivity, not more, a recent study concludes. If y...