Features
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Urban Planet: Saving Modernism’s Treasures
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...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Now I’m not a transit accountant, but was there ever really a doubt that a Gondola...
By Erick Villagomez -
Urban Planet: How the Dutch Got Their Cycle Paths
Today, World Wide Wednesday becomes Urban Planet (please no jokes!), a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban...
By Hilary Best -
Book Review: Making Healthy Places
Editors: Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin, and Richard J. Jackson (Island Press, 2011) Real estate agents are known for using many tricks to sell a...
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Little Mountain | Why the Struggle for Social Housing is More Pressing Now than Ever
[EDITORS NOTE: A special thanks to Andrew Witt and the fine folk at The Mainlander where this piece was originally published.] The new plan for the...
By Andrew Witt -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Let’s start with big TransLink news as their plan to raise transit fares an...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Dark and empty places, neighbourhood names and parking lots
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
Author: Chuck Davis (Harbour Publishing, 2011). If you ever hear someone say that Vancouver has no history, give them a copy of The Chuck Davis History of...
By Yuri Artibise -
An urban screen opening in Surrey
I walked by the Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre in Surrey on Friday, December 2 at 5:50 pm. It was still early, but in winter, when the sun sets at around...
By Don Schuetze -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Between 10:00am and 1:00pm PST today (January 5th), Tofino will be testing their new...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Ghettos, hospitals and green zoning
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Book Review – From The Stacks: Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America
Author: Alan Berger (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Waste. We are all familiar with it. We deal with it daily when we throw away of the vast...
By Erick Villagomez