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How Planning Institute Fees are Holding Us Back
Students conducting an active transportation audit. From @APA_Planning/Twitter Some believe that Canada’s provincial and national urban planning...
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WWW: Changing various urban spaces to better serve residents and businesses
How a rural town rebuilt its main street economy from the bottom up With small towns falling on tough economic times, one Mississippi town successfully...
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Book Review – Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
We popularly tend to think of cities horizontally—as entities that blanket the terrain. This perception has been fostered by the...
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WWW: Designing the just and accessible city
Examining the gendered nature of public transit Recognizing the tremendous impact that traditional gender roles have on how individuals use transit...
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WWW: Cycling and the city — the bold, the bad, and the beautiful
Innovative new ideas for bicycle parking As cycling becomes an increasingly popular mode of urban transportation cities are experiencing a serious...
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WWW: Rethinking and redesigning every day consumerist objects
France to ban disposable cutlery by 2020 In an effort to reduce the production and consumption of unnecessary disposable goods, France is enacting a ban...
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Book Review – People Cities: The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl
Written by Annie Matan & Peter Newman, (Island Press, 2016) Over the last 50 years, Jan Gehl has changed the way we think about architecture and city...
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Parks as natural places for engagement across difference
Ahead of Park People’s first national city parks conference in Calgary this coming March 2017, Park People’s Jake Tobin Garrett caught up with keynote...
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WWW: Rethinking affordable housing
Floating shipping containers as affordable housing A Copenhagen design firm has created new affordable housing units out of refurbished shipping...
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Book Review: Where Are the Women Architects?
Author: Despina Stratigakos (Princeton University Press, 2016) The title says it all. In this poignant, frank, and succinct volume, University at Buffalo...
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LORINC: Be very wary of Canada’s Trump-lite politicians
What kinds of thoughts, I wonder, were skittering through the minds of Conservative leadership hopefuls Kellie Leitch and Kevin O’Leary when they tuned in...
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WWW: Improving the viability of bike sharing infrastructure
The high cost of bike shares vs. public transit How can we readjust the pricing of bike shares to be more accessible and economical for public transit...
By Sarah Yellin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered