Item from Ian: Who speaks for those who don't speak?A comment on James’s post Who Speaks for those who are not already here the other day led Ian to…
Item from Ian: Greenest City, Black Water?James can tell you I’ve been an advocate for a pool in False Creek for some time, and every time I have…
Item from Ian: Existential Vancouver[ism?]Who are we? What is our city for? Who is our city for? In 2014, the Vancouver City Council started…
No space for sunny in a Greenest City?I’ve enjoyed stirring things up this week, learned quite a bit in the course of the posted comments, and want…
Dead space for a living city.I was watching an older SFU video last week on The Melbourne Experience. … and one of the most interesting…
… did someone say Artists in Surrey?Eric, in a comment describing a hypothetical future for Granville Island: …”All the artists have to move to Surrey, deep…
Gloater vs GloateeHow to gloat gracefully about your B.C. home’s new value I just got my assessment in the mail and the…
Back to [my] realityI’ve posted precious little about Architecture this week, which feels odd to me! Ken helps me get back to my…
Alberta on our mind …I ended a recent post mentioning (in passing) Alberta … Thomas Bayer comments that there is no way that at-grade light…
Is Silicon Valley the new Rust Belt?Forward from Thomas Beyer: Below is an intersting article on the future of cars and clustering in Silicon Valley. http://www.cio.com/article/3018351/car-tech/why-detroit-is-moving-to-silicon-valley.html…
Trapped in Vancouver?(slight edits below in burgundy to reflect updated information about the city property tax deferment) Two articles recently which both…
When is an island not an island?… when its mostly a carpark on a peninsula. I haven’t been in Vancouver for that long now, which is…
From the department of Rad ShitWhat happens when you have a piece of unused infrastructure? If you’re in Spain apparently you do this: A 100-Year-Old Church…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner