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Mar. 09, 2018 / michaelkluckner

How did US cities become so segregated?

Below are excerpts from a review-essay in the New York Review of Books about a very disturbing new book called…
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Mar. 09, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Labour Supply vs. Demand

From Business in Vancouver via Jak King: Is this a textbook example of Adam Smith’s dictum, or are there other…
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Mar. 01, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Affordable micro-suite

No, it’s not a piece by Ken Lum destined for the art gallery. Instead, it’s quite an advanced little shelter…
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Feb. 26, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Golfing and Sprawling in the Hazelmere

[Jenelle Schneider / PNG] Golf and country-residential go together like bears and garbage cans. The Morgan Creek development of recent…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / michaelkluckner

$$ Land Assembly economics $$

A very telling, quite neutral article about Michelle Yu and her specialty of land assemblies by Christopher Cheung in the…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Citymapper launches bus-taxi hybrid Smart Ride in London

Further to the February 20 post about Transportation Service Providers, there is this from The Guardian: London-based transit app Citymapper…
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Feb. 19, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Cities of the Future II

In the “cli-fi” genre as distinct from the “sci-fi” one, the city of Vancouver might look like this: and fans…
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Feb. 15, 2018 / michaelkluckner

CIBC backflips on "student mortgages"

Via Jak King, a blow to those students wanting to buy multi-million dollar west-side Vancouver houses, via betterdwelling.com. Foreign buyers…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

A Tale of Two Cities in one newspaper

This excellent piece of journalism by Mike Howell in The Courier, which can be read here, is paid for by…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Unaffordable Townhouses

More evidence, if any is still needed, that the move to replace detached houses with townhouses is a development play…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Another "worst-placed utility box"

Further to this post, a box with the beginnings of a Jackson Pollock reproduction on Victoria Drive between Parker and…
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Jan. 25, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Biking in Mérida

Mérida, the colonial city in the middle of the Yucatan, blocks off a route through the city on Sunday mornings…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

SFU Philosophers' Café: What Are We Losing and What's Worth Saving?

Thursday January 11, 7 pm Vancouver Public Library, Joe Fortes Branch, 870 Denman Street Come and participate in a free…
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Dec. 12, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Christmas in Grandview & Kits…

Just like in the olden days when  Sally Ann bands came through neighbourhoods playing and collecting money for charity, the…

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