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Nov. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

CityStudio Bridge Warming – Nov 24

Bridge Warming is a free event created by CityStudio students in partnership with VIVA Vancouver. Lights, music and extreme coziness……
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver — Who We Are. It's Changing.

Lots of people have lots of ideas about Vancouver’s identity: what are we, what we do. Here are two examples that…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

Metro Sustainability Breakfast: Homelessness – Nov 22

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Nov. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

Is the Need for More (Sydney) Housing Supply a "Myth"?

Lots of coverage of John Rose’s report on “The Housing Supply Myth” in Vancouver. Thomas Beyer sends along this article…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Downside of Dockless Bikesharing

From the Seattle Times via Guest Several months into the transportation experiment, three bike-share companies have already scattered some 4,000…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

New York City Releases Flood Resiliency Guidelines for City Parks

With increasingly large rain events and Hurricane Sandy, New York City has responded to climate change and threats to river…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Public Art — Fairview 1

In an area of light industrial and old buildings, near 5th and Columbia, things can look dowdy.  Except for several…
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Nov. 21, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Motor Vehicle Act — Changes

Most would agree that lots has changed since 1957: attitudes, fashions, diversity, communications and transportation.  What has changed very little…
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Nov. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Is the Need for More Vancouver Housing Supply a "Myth"?

There’s a big news story circulating right now from the Globe and Mail by Kerry Gold which clearly suggests that increasing the…
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Nov. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

What Happens to Those Shuttered Large Floorplate Malls? Lessons From the Sears Warehouses

There is no doubt that the heaving  change in retail malls and major store closings will leave structural buildings demanding…
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Nov. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills Mall Owners Have Malls For Sale!

All is not well in merchandising mall land. As the Globe and Mail reports  the Quebec “caisse de depot et placement…
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Nov. 19, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Another peril of walking

From the Auburn News, a western-suburbs paper in Sydney, about a survey conducted by Guide Dogs Australia: “almost half of…
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Nov. 19, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Street Art in Oz

A totally unscientific survey of mural trends in New South Wales: I didn’t see a single “pictorial” mural, like the…
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Nov. 17, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — A New Casino

Reflections on a busy waterway.  A warm departure from the usual green glass and concrete.…

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