Features
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World Wide Wednesday: Bankruptcy, transit pass, commute times
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 -
Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village
Author: Robert Mellin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching and Other Tales from a Newfoundland...
By Elle Ziegler -
Walk21 Helps Keep You Fit and Busy
A plethora of perambulating peripatetics and other pedestrians descended on Vancouver at the beginning of October to madly rush through 200 presentations...
By Brian Gould -
NPA’s Anton: Streetcar Yes, Bike Lanes No
The nomination deadline for Vancouver’s civic election passed on Friday, with 94 people stepping up for 27 spots across the mayoralty, council, and...
By Brian Gould -
Price Points: Baby Demons
A shining black baby with webbed wings – both cute and ominous. But where is it? Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the...
By Gordon Price -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Pedestrianism is spreading across the land as the City of Courtenay staff start...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Stolen bridges and brutalist preservation
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 -
Socialist Modernism
Edited by: Inka Schube (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010) After five years of traveling Eastern Europe and Russia as a magazine photographer and scholar, Roman...
By David Peacock -
Vancouver Helps Launch the CanU
If this article is the first you’ve heard of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, you’re not alone. Its board is a veritable who’s who of...
By Brian Gould -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Simon Fraser University has a new table…..periodic table, that is. The giant interactive...
By Erick Villagomez -
World Wide Wednesday: Participatory budgeting and underground parks
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: Block by Block
Not another Jane Jacobs review. Unfortunately yes. If you are reading this blog, chances are high that you have a dog-eaten copy of Death & Life...
By Chris Quigley