Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Digital placemaking, highway canopy, ferris wheel
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 -
Toward a Culture of Wood Architecture
“There needs to be a strategic rethinking of how we design buildings in order to maximize the value of the materials and...
By Sean Ruthen -
Greenways in Surrey: a look at Quibble Creek
Greenways are still rather new in city planning. The term was coined in 1995, and the idea of planning urban pathways that don’t pander to the...
By Don Schuetze -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. New concerns are being raised that the planned handover of the existing blue box...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Lots to Parks, Sidewalks to Roads, New Transit and Play
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 -
Paula Scher MAPS
Author: Paula Scher (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) Mapping has played an essential role in shaping human history. From military use to the division...
By Erick Villagomez -
A suburban pilgrimage, Part II: Retrofitting Levittown!
[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is travelling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...
By Christine McLaren -
Price Points: Report from the Development Wars
Where is this going to be built – and what lesson is there to be learned? . . This is the proposed residential tower for 1241 Harwood in the West...
By Gordon Price -
Cartography: Gregor Robertson voting percentage and dis
There were many great election-related maps being released this past week, and on the strength of many that I have created in the past, I decided to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Courtenay councillors are hoping a development proposing to build small, affordable...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Occupy, Pocket Parks, Traffic Fatalities
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 -
Urban Design and People
Author: Michael Dobbins (Wiley, 2009) “Urban Design is a diffuse and abstract term, it means different things to different people.” With these opening...
By Yuri Artibise