If Cars Could Talk: Essays on Urbanism

Author: William Fain (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) William Fain is an urban designer. These are the first words in the Foreword of If Cars Could...

October 9, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Unaffordable housing is damaging Vancouver’s community fibre: Gregor Robertson [Vancouver Sun] • Vancouver’s Canada Post building: A broker’s...

It’s Not About The Bike Or Car —It’s About Better Cities

Dunsmuir Bike Lane at Richards, Vancouver BC. Photo courtesy Paul Krueger. This week, I watched with concern Canada’s largest city have a...

October 8, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Metro Vancouver leaders rip TransLink over faulty forecasts [BC Local News] INTERNATIONAL • In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an...

October 7, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Vancouver backpedals on ‘thin streets’ proposal [Vancouver Sun] • B.C.’s Cowichan River in danger of drying up before end of October [Globe and...

October 6, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Poll gauges attitudes towards homelessness [Vancouver Courier] • Fralic: ‘Thin streets’ called affordable housing fix [Vancouver Sun] • Evergreen...

Urban Planet: NETWORK_LA

Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...

Neighbourhood Watch

A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Unfortunate news for Vernon as they learned that it has not been short-listed to host...

October 5, 2012 Headlines

LOCAL • Gregor Robertson hosts Twitter townhall on Vancouver housing [Vancouver Sun] • Notes from the SFU City Conversation about TransLink funding [The...

Urban Planet: The New SimCity

Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...

Video Vancouver: It’s Time to Get OnBoard

That Door in Your Forehead

That Door in Your Forehead by Daggar Earnshaw Here are your eyes poured into sockets beaten eggs milk and pus Slide your wet hands into our 2-slice...