Urban Design
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Three Cities, Three Paths on Energy Engagement
In Stockholm, planners ponder how to ensure that deep energy retrofits take root in the diverse suburb of Järva, a district with unique socioeconomic...
By keanegruending -
EVENT: Calling all city planners, designers and engineers to talk tiny houses in Metro Vancouver, January 24
The BC Tiny House Collective, a Vancouver-based community-driven organization advocating for the inclusion of tiny houses in our region, continues to...
By Spacing -
Cartographically Speaking: The Politics of Flight
Click here for a larger image. We tend to think of cities in their horizontal dimension—artifacts the spread laterally across the landscape. This is...
By Erick Villagomez -
Tiny house, anyone?
Had you asked me a couple years ago if my next project would focus on tiny houses, I would have scoffed at the thought. More so, I’d have asked, what is a...
By Anastasia Koutalianos -
Book Review – Infrastructural Monument
Author: MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Infrastructural Monument presented the products of a conference of the same...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
Thom and NIMBY: An Odd Coupling
What are we talking about when we remember the dead? I’ve recently helped my family in Israel produce a book in memory of my father, and thanks to...
By YarOn Stern -
VIDEO: Vancouver’s Multi-Modal Success Story
Streetsfilms was lucky to be at the ProWalk ProBike ProPlace 2016 this Summer where we got to hang with many of the smartest folks in the world and meet...
By Yuri Artibise -
Book Review From The Stacks – The Skytrain Explorer: Heritage Walks From Every Station
John Atkin (Steller Press Ltd., 2005) Everything is walking distance if you have the time. -Steven Wright, Comedian and Actor This is how Vancouver...
By Laura Kozak -
Event: Granville Island 2040, Dec. 3rd
On Saturday, December 3rd, 2016, from 10:30 am – 4:30 pm, the public is invited to the Revue Stage (east side of the Public Market) on Granville Island to...
By Spacing -
Lightworks: A Precedent for Preserving Vancouver’s Industrial Heritage?
We’ve all read the stories about Vancouver’s disregard for heritage homes, about the frequent demolition of gorgeous character houses to make way for...
By brentsawchyn -
Book Review—America’s Urban Future: Lessons From North of the Border
Authors: Roy Tomalty and Alan Mallach (Island Press, 2015) Urban America has a thing or two to learn from north of the border—that is what Ray Tomalty and...
By William Dunn -
Transportation, Technology and Urban Transformation
We are in the midst of a resurgence of interest and investment in transit. Across North America and at nearly every level of government, there is interest...
By jeffdoble