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Nov. 26, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Planning for the Post-Pandemic City~SFU Public Square

Planning for the Post-Pandemic City by Simon Fraser University Public Square When Planning Vancouver Together started in November 2019, no…
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Nov. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Enrique Penalosa: Equity by Design~Sustainability & Mobility

The City of Cleveland is sponsoring this talk by Enrique Penalosa, the past mayor of Bogota, Colombia on Equity by…
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Nov. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Five Good Ideas to Build a Resilient City~Canadian Urban Institute

Cities are the fundamental building block of contemporary society, certainly in Canada where almost 90 per cent of our population…
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Nov. 23, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Hudson’s Bay Company Paddling Away From Landlord, Employee Obligations?

Three years ago I wrote about the turf of the  iconic Hudson’s Bay store in downtown Vancouver at Granville and…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Xiguan Shuffle

We’ll put this under ‘Walking and Dancing.’ The principle at Xi Guan Elementary School, Zhang Pengfei, introduced his students to…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What is the riskiest (non-human) thing to touch in the age of Covid

An escalator rail? ATM machine? Weights in a gym?  Computer keyboard? Pushbuttons of any kind? Nope. It’s this.  (Click title):…
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Nov. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Coffee on the Go & the Pandemic “Fake Commuting” Phenomena

You have seen it in Vancouver~long lines of vehicles  in the drive-in lanes at McDonald’s in Kerrisdale when there’s no…
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Nov. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Brilliant Strategy: Disabling Our Priorities in the Name of the Disabled

Do you see what NPA Park Commissioner Tricia Barker is doing here? From a Province op-ed: In Vancouver, the civic…
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Nov. 02, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Birds In Shutdown Cities Not Louder, Just Bolder

In the pandemic City you can hear more bird song and it appears to be louder. While people made the…
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Nov. 02, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Bird-Friendly & Biophilic City~Integrating Habitats into Urban Design & Planning

  The Bird-Friendly and Biophilic City: Integrating Safe, Natural Habitats into Urban Design and Planning Urban greening efforts often emphasize…
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Oct. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Motordom Redux: The Reality on Our Roads

PT: We’re in a sudden, massive, global real-life experiment in how we live and move in our cities.  While there…
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Oct. 28, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Prisoners of the Pandemic in Assisted & Long Term Care

There are a whole bunch of people that have had their rights and freedoms tremendously impacted by the Covid pandemic…
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Oct. 19, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Why Can’t We Have Sheltered Public Spaces and Parks?

Last week I wrote about the international poll on walkability which found North American cities lacking. Those cities have  not…
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Oct. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

World’s Most Walkable Cities? You May Be Surprised.

As it becomes clearer that we simply can’t drive our way out of congestion, some cities like Paris are planning…

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