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Book Review – Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
By Jeremy Senko
Author: Jeff Speck (Island Press, 2018) When I reviewed Walkable City, the precursor to this book by Jeff Speck in 2013, I was in a... Read More
Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle
By sylviagreen
E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer... Read More
Did the Sidewalk Labs plot just thicken, or is the story coming to an end?
By Bianca Wylie
A series of exposés in recent days, in both The Toronto Star and the National Observer, revealed that Sidewalk Labs has retained a... Read More
Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?
By patrickcondon
I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway... Read More
The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series
By Ulduz Maschaykh
As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in... Read More
Acton Ostry Architects: 25 Years Young
By Sean Ruthen
While an architecture student at UBC in 1998, our class was asked to go out around Vancouver and photograph examples of ‘weather... Read More
Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’
By scothein
Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family... Read More
Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
By Erick Villagomez
Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more... Read More
Guest Op-ed: Building a Waterfront City in Toronto
By Spacing
OP-ED: By City Councillor Joe Cressy Revitalizing our waterfront is the largest and longest-lasting project that we will leave for... Read More
A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’
By Christopher Cheung
On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set... Read More