Urban Design

A suburban pilgrimage, Part II: Retrofitting Levittown!

[Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver reporter Christine McLaren is travelling around the world as the resident blogger for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a...

A suburban pilgrimage, Part I: Learning to like Levittown

A Pilgrimage to Levittown, NY (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Burbs) from ResilientPLANET on Vimeo. [Editor’s Note: Former Vancouver...

Thoughts on a Manufactured Mayoral Debate

When I found out that CBC was opening their audience for Wednesday night’s mayoral debate between Robertson and Anton, I immediately slotted it into...

Taxicabs and the future of getting around

On October 5th, Maclure’s celebrated 100 years of operation as a taxicab business in the Lower Mainland. Those 100 years have seen a great deal of...

Walk21 Helps Keep You Fit and Busy

A plethora of perambulating peripatetics and other pedestrians descended on Vancouver at the beginning of October to madly rush through 200 presentations...

Vancouver Helps Launch the CanU

If this article is the first you’ve heard of the Council for Canadian Urbanism, you’re not alone. Its board is a veritable who’s who of...

A Brighter Future with Cities: Review of Scientific American special edition

Following the UN declaration in 2008 that the majority of people now live in cities, there has been an explosion of city-themed commentary in magazines...

Video Vancouver: Transportation Planning and Climate Change

Studio Marpole: Looking at Marpole through the eyes of UBC design students

It is customary for different groups to be involved in development projects that will greatly affect the existing urban fabric of a city or a...

Vancouver’s Hornby and Dunsmuir Separated Bike Lanes: Ridership Climbing, Business and Auto Impacts Negligible

[Ed: A video montage of the lanes is also available -bg] Several bike lane related reports and surveys will hit council on Thursday, providing statistics...

Origami City: Transportation 2040 planning to bring Vancouver closer together

When Spacing made its formal debut in Vancouver this June, the city’s new urban generation was able to make good use of the bar on one side of the...

The Viaducts: Past, Present and Future – Part 2

This is the second part of a series – in tandem with In Focus: The Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts photo essay – looking at the past, present...