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WWW: Transit Transitions
Innovative on-demand bus service implemented in India The new service has faced legal and operational challenges but presents an interesting new...
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Book Review: POG – Pod Off-Grid
Author: Jason Pomeroy (ORO Editions, 2016) When people hear about the oceans rising due to climate change, their response is usually to shrug it off...
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WWW: Stories of urban infrastructure
Learning from the mistakes of the High Line Planners rethink and reassess how the design of New York City’s High Line park could have better served the...
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Why city issues are women’s issues
The 2016 Toronto International Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a documentary about the emergence of Jane...
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WWW: Unique ideas for navigating the city
Tricking traffic in Cambridge, England Does creating an artificial roundabout to confuse drivers slow traffic or simply cause an existential crisis? A...
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Book Review: City Builder – The Architecture of James KM Cheng
Edited by Trevor Boddy, The Images Publishing Group (2017) One cannot understand the architecture and urban design produced by JKMCA without...
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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...
By Sarah Yellin
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered