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UCS #104: The Tourist Experience
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: ‘Utter...
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The City in the Present
One place, one time. A queue curving around the block for a croissant that went viral, a transit card mapping the pulse of a city in motion, a sun cutting a corridor of light down 42nd Street once a year. Physically present in a city.
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The Pasts of the City
Understanding the city’s past through the evidence it left behind: what was documented, what was drawn on maps, and what simply survived.
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UCS #103: Vancouver Villages Plan
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Villages...
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The City in Tenses
Cities are built toward futures of their time. What we inherit gets adapted, protected, bulldozed, or recovered, as we find ourselves living in yesterday's tomorrow.
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Vancouver’s Villages Debate in Plain English
The Villages Plan: What It Is, Why It's Happening, and Why Some People Are Concerned
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UCS #102: The White Elephant
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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Book Review – Planning the Future of Abu Dhabi: A Canadian-Emirati Collaboration for Sustainable Urbanism
Edited by Larry Beasley and Michael White (UBC Press/On Point Press, 2026) There is a version of city-building that planners often imagine, if not quietly...
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UCS: The First 100 (Video)
The Urban Cartoon Syndicate launched in May 2024 and reached the hundredth cartoon last week. We mark this milestone by packing them all into a one-minute...
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Book Review: Cheapskate in Lotus Land
Author: Steve Burgess (Douglas & McIntyre, 2026) Cheapskate in Lotus Land, the new book by writer/humourist Steve Burgess, delivers what he promises...
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I’m Voting for Neighbourhoods. Are You?
I believe that Vancouver is, first and foremost, a “City of Distinguished Neighbourhoods”, and that Vancouver neighbourhoods are poised to...
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UCS #100: Piling On
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Rising food...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered