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The Future Fix: Preventing Extreme Heat Disaster
THIS EPISODE: Preventing Extreme Heat Disaster With climate change leading to more frequent and more extreme climate events, predicting the next disaster...
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The Future Fix: Ending Energy Poverty
THIS EPISODE: Ending Energy Poverty Many people across the country struggle to make ends meet. In many cases, that means they experience energy poverty...
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Event: reGENERATE Ideas Challenge – City of New Westminster
The City of New Westminster is launching the reGENERATE Ideas Challenge to seek bold ideas for reimagining the residential neighbourhood around 22nd...
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Dense Confusion
Dense /dens/ (adjective) 1 marked by compactness or crowding together of parts 2 slow to understand: thickheaded The BC Government recently released its...
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Observations on Bill 47
The City of Vancouver image above summarizes the province’s intention to introduce 20 storey towers at the center of each concentric ring where transit...
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Why YIMBYs and NIMBYs Need Each Other
PREAMBLE I will continue to work hard to find new opportunities for what I refer to as “those left behind”. This drives me daily and why I will never give...
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PODCAST: Spacing Radio 073, Love Park and Love Letters
We meet Globe & Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic in the new Love Park on Toronto’s waterfront, to talk about good public space design...
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The Overhead: Community Land Trusts
THIS EPISODE: Community Land Trusts Last season, we talked to a group of people from the Kensington Market Community Land Trust (KMCLT) in Toronto as part...
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S101S: Describing Building Types: Formal and Use-Types
What are formal building types and use-types, and why is this differentiation important to planning? With a broad background on building types and it’s...
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Book Review – Urban Magnets: How Activity Subcultures Can Be a Catalyst for Rejuvenating Cities
Authors: Bruce Haden, Mark Holland and Bruce Irvine (Urban Magnets Press 2020) Urban Magnets: How Activity Subcultures Can Be a Catalyst for Rejuvenating...
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How Rainways Could Restore ‘Raincouver’
They buried the creek under St. George Street to make room for roads and houses. Little waterways like it, fed by rainwater, were once everywhere in...
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S101S – Describing Building Types: Why They Matter
Why is an understanding of building types important to urban planning and design? What aspects of planning are they connected to? Given that urban...
By Erick Villagomez