Civic Engagement
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The Singapore Chronicles: Divergent Models
The city, we’re often told, is a model—something to be learned from, exported, improved. But what happens when models conflict? What if the city itself...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Singapore Chronicles: Designing for Urban Health
In the closing days of our field school, we sat around a modest table in a conference room overlooking the city skyline. It was our final debrief, and the...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Governance Gap
In 2024, Ontario Premier Doug Ford ordered the removal of bike lanes from some of Toronto’s busiest corridors—Bloor, University, and Yonge—claiming they...
By Erick Villagomez -
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Importance of Being ErnestErnie Wheadon 1937-2024 I grew up two doors from the Wheadon family, in an upscale professional neighbourhood, in an...
By Derek DeLand -
City of Glassholes
City of GlassholesWorld Classholes dog eat downward dogcity of narrow shoulderscity of broad stereotypescity that ever sleepslong legs running off at the...
By Derek DeLand -
Can the City build needed housing while preserving local democracy?
Authors: Patrick Condon & Colleen Hardwick Vancouver’s success as a global city has spawned housing prices that rise farther and farther out of reach...
By Patrick Condon -
Broadway Plan Reflections
This piece started with a simple aspiration: to collect a diversity of meaningful 100-200 word reflections on Broadway Plan processes and outcomes...
By Erick Villagomez -
VIDEO: Why does the Vancouver Plan matter to you?
On July 22, 2022, Vancouver City Council approved the Vancouver Plan, a citywide land use strategy to create a more livable, affordable and sustainable...
By Yuri Artibise -
Taking Us Where The Sun Don’t Shine – The Broadway Plan
Why bother? The survey flashes across your horizon suggesting a moment of importance. You click on the survey and give your opinion. What is really in...
By grahammcgarva -
What You Should Know about Vancouver’s New City Plan
By Christopher Cheung and Jen St. Denis It’s here at last — Vancouver’s long-awaited plan that will guide land-use decisions from density to design across...
By Christopher Cheung -
Too Obsessed with ‘Character’ Homes?
Go to just about any Vancouver council meeting or public hearing to do with urban growth and you can bet someone will say that change will hurt...
By Christopher Cheung -
Vancouver Plan – An Opportunity for Climate Input
The City of Vancouver is in the midst of the next phase of engagement for the Vancouver Plan, a planning process that will ultimately create a vision for...
By Andrew Cuthbert