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Behind the Curtain: Rethinking the Role of the City Manager
The unelected administrator who shapes your city—without ever needing your vote
By Erick Villagomez -
PODCAST: Episode 91, Talking Transit 2025
In this episode: TTC reliability, competing projects, the federal budget, and the car is still king.
By Spacing Radio -
UCS #77: Fireworks
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Despite...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate -
The Big Brutal Breakfast
Posttension Postmatch via Brutalist Broadcasting Corp
By Derek DeLand -
When did we start describing opioid addiction as “delinquent” behaviour?
Contrary to the claims of some pundits and many homeowners, the City's accelerating encampment response is not in fact being driven by progressives
By John Lorinc -
How many more highway lanes?
On the 20th anniversary of the Greenbelt, the Ford government's highway building plans turn back the clock
By Michel Nayrouz -
The Costs We Don’t See
Vancouver’s 2026 Budget and the Politics of Austerity
By Erick Villagomez -
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy
The City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail
By John Lorinc -
UCS #76: Does Zero Mean Zero?
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Cost of...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate -
Treading Lightly on the Mountain: SFU’s New Gibson Art Museum
Located at the east end of the SFU mountaintop campus and sitting beside a mature stand of trees lining its central promenade, visitors can appreciate how...
By Sean Ruthen -
UCS #75: Planning Department Disposals
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver’s...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate -
Notes from Nice and London
In 1864, Fydor Dostoevsky wrote his seminal Notes from Underground, a novella exploring existentialism and alienation in a large city – in his case...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered