Features
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Building Type Basics for Transit Facilities
Author: Kenneth W. Griffin (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) We’ve all been in poorly designed train stations. Inadequate lighting, narrow platforms...
By John Calimente -
Metro Vancouver Mayors Make Bold Bid to Fund Regional Transit
Poor Evergreen Line. You’ve been talked about for so long that we thought you’d already been built. But no, here it is 2011 and all we have is...
By John Calimente -
World Wide Wednesday: Renegade infrastructure funding, Brazilian street art, ant planning
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 -
Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture’s Engagement with the City
Editors: Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) In his well-known 1978 book – Collage City – architectural...
By Sean Ruthen -
School Troubles in a Booming Metropolis – Part 2: Intergenerational Communities
[Editors Note: this is a revised version of a four-piece series originally published on Planning Pool. You can read the first part here.] To serve a...
By Vanessa Kay -
World Wide Wednesday: Brains, Sprints, Ads and Bridges
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 -
School Troubles in a Booming Metropolis – Part 1: Demographics and Family Housing
[Editors Note: this is a revised version of a four-piece series originally published on Planning Pool] Recent years have not been easy for public schools...
By Vanessa Kay -
Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haitian Villages
Author: Steven Holl (Princeton Architectural Presss, 2011) Reviewed by Ellen Ziegler, Spacing Vancouver Pamphlet Architecture 31: New Haitian Villages...
By Elle Ziegler -
World Wide Wednesday: Swings, Shifts and Copycat Towns
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 Changing City
A fine-grain tour of Vancouver’s central areas, divided into twelve neighborhood walks, John Atkin and Andy Coupland’s new book The Changing City takes...
By Laura Kozak -
Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
The quest to integrate a rapid urbanization with natural living systems is a top priority for cities around the globe. Tim Beatley’s attempts to...
By Kevin Zhang -
(re)Designing Nature: Current Concepts for Shaping Nature in Art and Landscape Architecture.
Given our ecological pressure and current drive towards urbanization, seeking to reevaluate the divisive relationship between the built world and nature...
By Erick Villagomez