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Collaborative CityStudio breaks new ground
“When have you had your most engaged life experience?” asked Janet Moore and Duane Elverum. A rapt audience sat in silence for ten seconds. “No one ever...
By Ren Thomas -
Urban Planet: Cracking Down on Chicago’s Food Trucks
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places
Authors: Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner (Island Press, 2012) Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places takes a very comprehensive...
By Kevin Zhang -
Urban Planet: Dumpster Camera
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Mapping Vancouver Crime – Part 2
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present the second part of Ian Lowrie’s investigation into Vancouver crime patterns. If you missed the first...
By Ian Lowrie -
Big Green: On the pros and cons of the new city megaparks
[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is traveling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...
By Christine McLaren -
Price Points: Beauty = Waste
What’s going on behind the shrink wrap? . They’re doing work on the exterior of the Dal Grauer Substation on Burrard Street (map here...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Scoring Walk Score
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Sim City: City Amenities, Inconveniences, Opportunities
Among the many features in Spacington—A university, city hall, jail and courthouse, major league baseball station, golf course, harbour, boat docks and...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Old Maps Online
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. The Cowichan Watershed Board feels something needs to be done about the fact that 28 per...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: That’s elephants over the bridge
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. One year after it was opened, the...
By Mike Bulko