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Jun. 19, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Fraser Valley rapid transit in 1949

This video on YouTube captures a bit of the B.C. Electric’s interurban line that ran from New Westminster to Chilliwack…
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Jun. 09, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Manspreading on transit

A great article in the Guardian. The EMT [Madrid transit system] came up with the initiative in partnership with Madrid…
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Jun. 03, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Impressions of San Francisco

Standing in front of City Lights Bookstore, looking down Columbus Avenue past Vesuvio’s bar (with Jack Kerouac Lane coming in…
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Jun. 03, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Herzog & de Meuron in San Francisco

I had the opportunity on a recent trip to San Francisco, my first since 2005, to visit the new-to-me de…
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May. 19, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Maintenance

“Maintenance is the foundation of eternity” – Isaac Asimov (from The End of Eternity, a novel, in which he actually…
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May. 12, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Building Resilience: Older Buildings in the Sustainable City

Mark Thompson Brandt, Conservation Architect and Author, will discuss why it is important to sustainably upgrade our older building stock,…
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May. 05, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Housing-type trends in Canada

Spotted by Jak King on a site called Neighbourhood Change. Vancouver is the outlier in Canada in terms of the…
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Mar. 20, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Bike picture

What? No bike picture for several days? Here’s one from 1915.…
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Mar. 11, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Build more Kerrisdales to rework the RS areas!

The Kerrisdale village, about 8 blocks across, developed with low-rise to mid-rise apartments/condos from the 1940s to the 1990s. It…
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Mar. 06, 2017 / michaelkluckner

"The Problem of Public Sculpture" 45 years later

Something to mull over as the green slime of winter cloaks the Main Street Poodle. This is excerpted from the…
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Feb. 26, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Apple – stuck in the '50s?

[I had to revert to the old-fashioned way of stealing content as I couldn’t find this brief story from the…
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Feb. 18, 2017 / michaelkluckner

"New York's Vast Flop"

Architecture critic Martin Filler eviscerates the World Trade Centre development in NYC in this long and worthwhile article from the…
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Feb. 15, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Bicycle Safety in 1924

This comes from artist Gary Sim, who will be giving a lecture on Surviving While Being Creative, about artists’ historic…
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Feb. 07, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Andy Yan at the Vancouver Institute

  HOT, UNEVEN, AND CONNECTED: URBAN PLANNING IN METRO VANCOUVER’S LATEST GLOBAL AGE BING THOM MEMORIAL LECTURE Woodward Instructional Resource…

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