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Mar. 16, 2016 / michaelkluckner

How fair will "Greenest City" be?

Should this sort of scene survive in Greenest City? By “this,” I mean the year-round heated outdoor patio in Vancouver,…
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Mar. 16, 2016 / michaelkluckner

The north-end Granville Street blues

Talk about deficient urban design! As if the Nelson-to-the-bridge problems aren’t enough, the north end of the city’s once-upon-a-time-most-important street…
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Mar. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

3 pieces on 'weird' architecture

Michael Geller flagged on FB this piece from ArchDaily, exploring the desire for novelty, the egos of ‘starchitects,’ local context…
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Mar. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

A "wish you were here" video

The Arbutus Corridor in 2040 … just kidding. A video from Facebook of the Beijing subway, linked here. 人太多了, as…
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Mar. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Commuter chopper

Can you say “carbon footprint”? I checked the date to make sure it isn’t April 1st. This story from Yahoo…
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Mar. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Why Build So Much So Fast?

Blogger and Grandview activist Jak King analyzed the city’s breakneck construction pace in a recent post. He notes the projections…
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Mar. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

The future of the Arbutus Corridor

Is anyone else having a “here we go again” moment about the Arbutus Corridor? Not about the value of having…
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Mar. 14, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Housing options for commune-ists

This story was just on the CBC’s The Current this morning, talking about sharing houses in a hippie-communal sort of…
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Mar. 14, 2016 / michaelkluckner

All you need is a phone

Jak King, the Grandview blogger and activist, tipped me off to another breathtaking innovation of our exciting modern world: “In…
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Mar. 14, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Granville Street Blues

Rundown Granville Street redone as a new tech hub? This is something of an old story now, having been featured…
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Mar. 14, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Hello and …

By way of introduction, in the city’s urban-affairs milieu I am probably best-known for the 1990 book Vanishing Vancouver and…

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