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Dec. 20, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Skytrain — Broadway Consultation

Here are dates for public consultation on the officially-named “Millennium Line Broadway Extension”.  A.K.A. the Broadway subway.  Or — the…
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Dec. 19, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Port Metro Vancouver and continuing habitat losses to the Fraser River Estuary

The Globe and Mail newspaper reporter Mark Hume has just reviewed the Community Mapping Network (CMN) work which sampled the 151…
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Dec. 09, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

City-Building, and Health

This article from the Lancet discusses the link between cities, city planning, and population health.  Nothing is really new here, with…
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Dec. 09, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File-Have a below grade storage space in NYC? Grow the Low Line.

Besides the High Line in New York City, this report from Wired describes the “Low Line” , the initiative from former Google…
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Dec. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Greatest Security Threat – 2

From a comment on a column by Roger Cohen in the New York Times: El Jamon I will keep raising…
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Dec. 06, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

B.C.'s Climate Plan-What Climate Plan?

  It’s had the feel of a strange year. A good point was at the C40 meeting in Mexico City,…
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Dec. 02, 2016 / Gordon Price

Evergreen Preview

Yesterday Councillor George Affleck and Rob McDowell got a preview of Evergreen (formally, the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line)…
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Dec. 02, 2016 / Gordon Price

Streetfilms: Vancouver’s Multi-Modal Success Story

. Long traditionally a region that prides itself on transportation options and rejecting the freeway movement in the 1960’s and…
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Nov. 25, 2016 / Gordon Price

Mysteries of the Referendum Requirement

A helpful clarification on the referendum requirement from Bill Holmes:   In (a Kickstart) post, you stated that “according to the…
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Nov. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Kickstart- November 24

By Gord Price Finally: The total cost of the first phase of the plan is $2 billion, with $370 million…
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Nov. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Trump Divide – 2

From the Upshot in the New York Times: As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power…
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Nov. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Trump Divide: Rural and Urban

Trump’s victory was an empire-strikes-back moment for all the places and voters that feel left behind in an increasingly diverse,…
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Nov. 15, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Rise of Cities in Trumpian Times

      The concept of the City State is associated with classical Athens. Athens was host to citizens who studied…
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Oct. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Pedestrian Deaths, Seniors and the Walk and Be Seen Project 2016

    So far this year 11 pedestrians have died on Vancouver streets, the latest being a senior who was…

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