Features
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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...
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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 -
A suburban pilgrimage, Part I: Learning to like Levittown
A Pilgrimage to Levittown, NY (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Burbs) from ResilientPLANET on Vimeo. [Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver...
By Christine McLaren -
Price Points: Naked in Auckland
Where is this street in Auckland, New Zealand, and why is it naked? . . This is Elliott Street in the heart of Auckland’s Central Business District...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Four months after Brenda Patterson first approached Port Alberni City Council about...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Avenue towards heaven, biking broadway
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