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Jul. 06, 2016 / nlamontagne

A High Honour

In the Canadian professional planning community, there are few honours higher than election as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute…
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Apr. 03, 2016 / nlamontagne

Another smart take on the small scale: Ralph Segal on densifying RS-1

A few weeks ago I had a chat with Ralph Segal, a former senior urban designer (retired) with the City…
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Apr. 03, 2016 / nlamontagne

Beasley on View Corridors

While checking in on Twitter yesterday, I caught an interesting tweet by Larry Beasley on view cones and corridors. I…
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Apr. 03, 2016 / nlamontagne

Ten Ideas for Vancouver to Tackle Housing Affordability – continued

Earlier I posted the first five of my ten ideas for the City of Vancouver to take a more proactive…
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Apr. 03, 2016 / nlamontagne

As Seen in LA: A New Street Culture

I spend a lot of time in Los Angeles – and have been for many years. It is a city…
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Apr. 02, 2016 / nlamontagne

Ten Ideas for Vancouver to Tackle Housing Affordability

Like most responsible city planners, I’ve been thinking a lot about housing affordability lately and I wanted to take advantage of…
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Apr. 02, 2016 / nlamontagne

Turncoats: a New Debate on Architecture in Vancouver

Last night I attended the first Turncoats event in Vancouver (and saw a few of the Price Tags community there)…
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Apr. 01, 2016 / nlamontagne

Province to announce new ‘speculation tax’ to be used for regional transportation costs

    Word is starting to come out of Victoria that the Province will move on the housing affordability issue…
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Mar. 30, 2016 / nlamontagne

Innovative Infill – what Vancouver (and other cities too!) need

Recently on the twitters, there have been some interesting discussion on new models for small-scale infill development. I am always…
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Mar. 30, 2016 / nlamontagne

What Would You Call Vancouver's Bike Share

  I, for one, am very excited by the arrival of bike share in Vancouver this summer (finally!). Certainly it…
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Mar. 30, 2016 / nlamontagne

High Rise. High Design. High Performance?

Recently the Planning Commission convened a series of workshops and an enjoyable public event reflecting on the major planning milestones…
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Mar. 29, 2016 / nlamontagne

Can we keep the Main Street in Main Street?

This recent article in Business in Vancouver caught my attention as it represents a key planning challenge in our region:…
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Mar. 29, 2016 / nlamontagne

"The Only Certainty is Uncertainty"

Ed and Eddie / Flickr A few of the students in my UBC Urban Transportation Planning class are doing a major…
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Mar. 28, 2016 / nlamontagne

Another week, another guest editor – meet Neal LaMontagne

This week I take the role of guest editor of this well-loved and always appreciated blog and I am looking…

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