Features
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Book Review: Suburban Remix – Creating The Next Generation of Urban Places
Editors: Jason Beske and David Dixon (Island Press, 2018) According to the 2017 American Housing Survey, the majority of Americans live in the suburbs...
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CityStudio Vancouver: A Model of Global Urban Innovation
Since its founding in 2011, CityStudio Vancouver has demonstrated a unique ability to connect City of Vancouver staff with post-secondary faculty...
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Urban Technologies: The Unintended Consequences
If you walk by the bike parkade at Main Street Science World in the evening you will see a handful of bikes. If you look closely, you’ll notice that a...
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Track to the future: Advocates want to passenger rail back to the Fraser Valley
A century ago, interurban rail service helped Fraser Valley communities develop — and it could do the same thing today, says a group fighting to resurrect...
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On Walking and the Future of Cities: An Evening with Jeff Speck
On a balmy Tuesday night I found myself walking towards Lost Lagoon along Alberni Street. I parked my car at a nearby parking garage, slightly frustrated...
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Podcast: The Laws of Settlements with Erick Villagomez
From a small Nova Scotia town to booming Barcelona to the mega-city of Jakarta, are there any laws that govern all human settlements? Are there consistent...
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Seeing Environment
An announcement from the captivated Oscar Woodbead. I have previously written on my belief that sound should be a more valued component of how we design...
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Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars
From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before the neighbourhood...
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On This Patch of Grass: An Interview with Matt Hern, Daisy Couture, Selena Couture, and Sadie Couture
Parks are an important part of the contemporary city. Yet, the fact that parks are so common place makes critically discussion around them increasingly...
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Uh oh. I’m a Planner and Planning Makes Housing More Expensive
Thank Andy Yan for throwing yet another rock into the placid pond of our taken for granted assumptions. As someone who advocates planning and has called...
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Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle
E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer. Last-mile delivery is...
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Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?
I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway SkyTrain all the way...
By Patrick Condon