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Book Review—Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

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Author: Steven Higashide (Island Press, 2019) Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run and Win the Fight for Effective Transit is... Read More

Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink

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Accessibility is a key priority of any public transit system. While much-needed efforts are underway in making bus stops and SkyTrain... Read More

Book Review: Suburban Remix – Creating The Next Generation of Urban Places

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Editors: Jason Beske and David Dixon (Island Press, 2018) According to the 2017 American Housing Survey, the majority of Americans... Read More

Urban Technologies: The Unintended Consequences

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If you walk by the bike parkade at Main Street Science World in the evening you will see a handful of bikes. If you look closely... Read More

Track to the future: Advocates want to passenger rail back to the Fraser Valley

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A century ago, interurban rail service helped Fraser Valley communities develop — and it could do the same thing today, says a group... Read More

On Walking and the Future of Cities: An Evening with Jeff Speck

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On a balmy Tuesday night I found myself walking towards Lost Lagoon along Alberni Street. I parked my car at a nearby parking garage... Read More

Podcast: The Laws of Settlements with Erick Villagomez

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From a small Nova Scotia town to booming Barcelona to the mega-city of Jakarta, are there any laws that govern all human settlements... Read More

Seeing Environment

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An announcement from the captivated Oscar Woodbead. I have previously written on my belief that sound should be a more valued... Read More

Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars

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From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before... Read More