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Planning the way to a better world
Planning Pool shares the highlights of the Canadian Institute of Planners Conference. Although the conference was in Ontario, BC was the topic of much...
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No campfires, just lots of great ideas at TransportCamp
TheTransitFan takes us through the goings-on at the TransportCamp: A Sustainable Transportation Unconference that took place last Friday, October 30th...
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TownShift: A Surrey Odyssey
Can we build livability, walkability, sustainability, and residential density around the shopping mall, along the retail strip, beside the rec centre...
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Where are the kids? – Epilogue
At last, we’ve reached the end of our child-tracking journey. As I mentioned in the last piece, I want to end off by looking at the all of the children...
By Erick Villagomez -
Delirious Vancouver
As a kickoff to the upcoming public hearing regarding Vancouver’s view cone policies, Sean Ruthen describes the debate that took place on October...
By Sean Ruthen -
Where are the kids? – Teenagers thirteen to eighteen years old
Finally, we turn our gaze to spatial distribution of the last group in our cartographic series of children in Vancouver: teenagers from thirteen to...
By Erick Villagomez -
Where are the kids? – Children six to twelve years old
Continuing our series looking at the spatial distribution of children across Vancouver, we’re now going to turn our attention to the next group of kids...
By Erick Villagomez -
Canada Line brings the city closer together
Well it’s been a little over a month since downtown Vancouver was reconnected with Richmond by a rail line. For the first time in 50 years, since...
By John Calimente -
Performing Infrastructure
With growing national interest in funding infrastructure projects to kick start our lumbering economy, Sean Ruthen considers another type of...
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Where are the kids? – Children three to five years old
The last map we looked at a couple of weeks ago, discussed the pattern of distribution of children under three years old. In keeping with the data...
By Erick Villagomez -
Where are the kids? – Children under three years old
We’ll take a break from the Kingsway theme in Cartographically Speaking and start introducing these on a more casual basis. Let’s jump to a different...
By Erick Villagomez -
Pedestrians need their share of the road
By Jayalath (Jay) Ameresekere Photos by Leszek Apouchtine Planners and Engineers have, in the past, tended to be more concerned with the ease and comfort...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered