Infrastructure
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Six-foot City: Public Transit
Anybody who has experienced a well-used public transit system during rush hour knows that relaxing their ‘personal space bubbles’ to a minimum is...
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Podcast: COVID Reflections
It is safe to say that it’s been a wild few months. And now, after two months of strict social distancing here in Canada, many provinces are starting to...
By Spacing -
Book Review—Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places
Authors: Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, Stefan Al (Island Press, 2017) The cumulative consequences of this nearly singular focus on expeditious movement...
By Becca Mayers -
Metro Vancouver needs a more Multilingual Translink
Accessibility is a key priority of any public transit system. While much-needed efforts are underway in making bus stops and SkyTrain stations more...
By Max Kittner -
Release: UBC study highlights need to improve health care access in Vancouver, Portland and Seattle
UBC researchers have developed a data science method that analyzes how easily citizens can access hospitals and walk-in health clinics – and it’s a tool...
By Spacing -
Developing a Community: The History of Grandview
By Guest Author Jak King For scores of generations, the wooded hills of Grandview were prime hunting and trapping land for First Nations. Once the...
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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...
By Christopher Cheung -
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...
By Jeremy Senko -
Why New West Station’s Plaza 88 is one of a kind
You’ll lose your breath trying to describe Plaza 88. It wraps an elevated SkyTrain station with seven storeys of parking and two levels of shops and...
By Christopher Cheung -
Video Vancouver: Northeast False Creek Plan – Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award
Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award Northeast False Creek Plan Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Summary Adopted by the Vancouver City...
By Yuri Artibise -
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...
By sylviagreen -
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