By johnatkin
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Good Intent and Design Fail in Chinatown
Inserting new structures into older urban environments can be tricky. The rhythm of the street and its storefronts, sidewalk width, building height etc...
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Book Review: The Container Guide
By: Tim Wang and Craig Cannon (Self published, 2015) Living in a port city surrounded by a working harbour and rail yards its hard to miss the masses of...
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Book Review: Raincoast Chronicles #23
Editor: Peter A. Robson (Harbour Publishing, 2015) Raincoast Chronicles is always something to look forward to. In a format that is accessible and...
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Book Review – Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer (MIT Press, 2011) This is a small book of a hundred or so pages that offers 100 bits of advice on how cities...
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Book Review – Raincoast Chronicles #22: Saving Salmon, Sailors and Souls: Stories of Service on the BC Coast
Editor: David R. Conn (Harbour Publishing, 2013) It is always a delight to get a hold of a new Raincoast Chronicles. No matter what the theme, there is...
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Book Review – Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Ghosts and Gardens
Author: Eve Lazarus (Anvil Press, 2012) I’m a sucker for local history books. Whenever I travel I try and find a book store or museum gift shop to look...