By Yuri Artibise
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Book Review: Soft City
Author: David Sim (Island Press, 2019) Bringing the soft back to cities Cities are often caricatured as hard and harsh. Concrete, steel, loud noises...
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Video: Halifax vs Vancouver: Round One “Cycling”
Via PLANifax: Halifax and Vancouver may be on different sides of the country, but that’s not going to stop us from some friendly competition. We...
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Book Review: Seeing the Better City
Author: Charles R. Wolfe (Island Press, 2017) In many cities, the process of planning and designing our communities has become separated from the...
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Book Review—Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Author: Robert Kanigel (Knopf , 2016) Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs is the first significant biography of the woman who changed the way many...
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Book Review: Where We Want to Live—Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Author: Ryan Gravel (St. Martin’s, 2016) It is not often that a graduate school project turns into a best selling book, let alone a transformative...
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VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities
Why some say driverless cars won’t just change the way we commute, but the way we live. (via CBC | The National)
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Going Wild in Vancouver
I recently met up with David Miller, the President & CEO of WWF-Canada, the Canadian division of the international World Wildlife Fund. Canadian urban...
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Book Review: Tactical Urbanism
Author: Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia (Island Press, 2015) tac·ti·cal adjective \ˈtak-ti-kəl\: “of or relating to small-scale actions serving a...
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Book Review: Urban Acupuncture
Author: Jaime Lerner (Island Press, 2014) Jaime Lerner is a living legend among urbanists. Often mentioned in the same breath is Jane Jacobs and William...
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Pop-Up City Hall: Exploring New Ways to Engage
In October 2012, Vancouver City Council approved forming a Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force to give recommendations on how to increase Vancouverites’ sense...
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Anne Golden, Part 3—Transportation: Lessons Learned
[EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 28, 2014, Anne Golden spoke at SFU Vancouver as part of the Rethinking Transportation: New Voices, New Ideas series...
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Anne Golden, Part 2—Building Transportation Trust
[EDITOR’S NOTE: On January 28, 2014, Anne Golden spoke at SFU Vancouver as part of the Rethinking Transportation: New Voices, New Ideas series...