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Urban Planet: Comparing Transit in Toronto, Montreal and Los Angeles
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 -
Landform Building
Edited by Stan Allen & Marc McQuade (Lars Müller Publishers 2011) For centuries the discipline of architecture has drawn from the axioms of nature to...
By Larraine Henning -
Mapping Vancouver Crime – Part 1
[Editor’s Note: The relationship between crime and urban form is an important, but under-discussed, phenomenon. As such, it is our pleasure to give...
By Ian Lowrie -
Price Points: The Goldilocks Campus
Why, when compared to its predecessors, is this space just about right? . This is the Atrium at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus – a...
By Gordon Price -
Urban Planet: Ikea Neighbourhood
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: A Better Look at Spacington.
While Spacington gets a little bit larger (the population is now up to 100, 000), and we try to get a jump start on the two things we are going to talk...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Jungles in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
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. Many residents in Coquitlam are cheering with recent news of the significant drop in...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Plan your zombie escape route
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Ever visit a new city and have a hard...
By Mike Bulko -
Making Space for People on Robson Street
Finding a place to sit on Robson Street can be tricky, especially when the sidewalks are overflowing with people. With the lines of buildings fixed, it...
By Kathleen Corey -
Urban Planet: Chalktrail
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 -
Visual Notes for Architects and Designers – Second Edition
Author: Norman Crowe and Paul Laseau (John Wiley & Sons, 2012) As children, we all loved to draw. Be it for recreation or otherwise taking a pencil...
By Erick Villagomez