Jillian Glover is a communications advisor who specializes in urban issues and transportation. She is a former Vancouver City Planning Commissioner and holds a Master of Urban Studies degree from Simon Fraser University. She was born and raised in Vancouver and is very interested in how people in urban environments engage in their cities. In her spare time, she writes about urban issues at her blog, This City Life – which you can visit at www.thiscitylife.tumblr.com.

Cities For People

13 ways to create baby-friendly cities

Since having a baby, I have been experiencing my city through a new lens. Before parenthood, I could move through the city relatively... Read More

Cities find new ways to use old infrastructure

What if your local telephone booth was also an electric vehicle charging station? Or construction scaffolding became a fun place to... Read More

Converting Alleyways to Livable Laneways and Country Lanes

As a kid growing up in Vancouver, I spent a lot of time playing with neighbourhood kids in the alleyway outside our family home off... Read More