From CMHC: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) EQuilibrium™ Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative* is bringing world-class sustainable housing examples…

Not necessarily. From Atlantic Cities: If you want more affordable housing, you might guess that moving to the suburbs is…

Bob Rennie in the Huffington Post: The baby boomer is so automobile dependent because they needed it to socialize. Today…

Kiwi issue too: The Economist magazine this month rated New Zealand’s home prices as 66 percent overvalued when compared to rents,…

Better! Cities & Towns features a prototype cottage for “Southlands” – the so-far frustrated proposal for what is still known…

From Density in a City of Neighbourhoods: the second part of a summary of common myths (and truths) about density that often…

I’ve been excerpting pieces of Density in a City of Neighbourhoods for the last month or so but didn’t include…

From Justen Harcourt, by way of SpacingToronto: Two design students who hate bike helmets (one says they’re like “a hard…

Jesse Donaldson, who’s doing Space Cases on Openfile, did a fine treatment on the Vancouver Special: Despite decades of derision,…

A great quote from an anonymous developer (no wonder), as relayed by Jonathan Baker – a well-known Vancouver lawyer and…

The Vancouver Foundation created quite a stir with its “Connections and Engagement” survey. The first report we produced was a…

“It sounds like a dumb question,” says Stephen Smith, who asked it in this article on the Market Urbanism blog.  And then…

David Frum picks up on a report that assess key demographic trends in the U.S. housing market. Significant observation: Despite…

Three observations from a Forum on Housing Affordility hosted by the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, and the…