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UCS #44: Strange Bedfellows
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Housing and...
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Book Review – City Science: Performance Follows Form
Authors: Ramon Gras and Jeremy Burke (Actar, 2024) Cities have long been at the intersection of art and science, blending architecture, engineering, and...
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Rising High, Falling Short: Social and Economic Division
Key Metrics Summary Building: A 40-story residential building constructed of a reinforced concrete frame with a curtain wall facade on a site without...
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UCS #43: Concord Pacific at the Comedy Club
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: “Last...
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When Settlers Seized and Set Fire to the Kitsilano Reserve
As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement.
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UCS #42: 20 Years of the DTES
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver...
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S101S: What Is a Development Pro Forma—and Why Should You Care?
A development pro forma is one of the most important (yet often overlooked) tools in real estate and urban planning. Think of it as the financial...
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UCS #41: The Dismissal of Councillor Bligh
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver...
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UCS #40: Your Civic Assets Put to Work!
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: City of...
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How Art Works
as dialysisdrop by drop, filters toxins from bloodbefore they can poison the heartthis venom, refined, is art. as antivenindrop by drop, binds toxins in...
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Rising High, Falling Short: Construction-Related Carbon Emissions
An in-depth look at the carbon emissions of high-rise buildings.
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Rising High, Falling Short: Introduction
The Introduction to a continual series looking critically at high-rise urbanism and its broader impacts.
By Erick Villagomez
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered