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Aug. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Globe & Mail’s “Women Lead Here” Virtual Conference Free to Registrants

Because of the Covid Pandemic the Globe and Mail is changing their annual women in business conference to a virtual…
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Aug. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Missing Middle and Why Just Changing Zoning Won’t Get Us There

Housing affordability and the need for housing that is accessible to families is top of mind to many but as…
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Aug. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Point Roberts Gets Emergency Covid Ferry Service to American Mainland~at a Cost

Point Roberts Washington State  is one of the unique anomalies resulting from the Pacific Northwest-Canadian border dispute settled in 1846…
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Aug. 21, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

30 Ideas in 30 minutes~Innovations for Cities Arising from Covid

Business in Vancouver is presenting a free webinar on “30 Ideas in 30 Minutes. Join BIV and 30 of B.C.’s…
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Aug. 20, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver~Buying a Piece of Property A Loonie at a Time

This week I wrote about the over twenty million “land” titles  for one square inch of Yukon land that were…
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Aug. 19, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Island Press Offering Free E-Books

There’s a great free offer from Island Press~they are making available an assortment of their books on biodiversity, climate change,…
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Aug. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

Portland: Go for the Protests, Stay for the Rezoning

Portland’s BLM protests may capture the news, but the Sightline Institute summarizes what their city council is likely to approve…
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Aug. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Covid & the Future of Planning

The Smart Growth Network in concert with the Maryland Department of Planning presents the next webinar in their Planning With…
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Aug. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

Ann McAfee: Plans, Pandemic, Protests – Time For Cities to Pause & Pivot

PT: Ann McAfee was Co-Director of Planning for Vancouver from 1994 to 2006 at the time the extraordinary growth described…
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Aug. 06, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Growth (and Decline) in Vancouver – Jens von Bergmann’s Views

Further to this post below, the ever-visual Jens von Bergmann (@vb_jens) shows graphically what growth on the downtown peninsula looked…
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Jul. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Britain’s Government Prescribes Biking

It was Intelligent Health’s Dr. William Bird MBE  who led the way in Great Britain allowing medical doctors to prescribe…
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Jul. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Octogenarian Small Business Owners Become Surprise Instagram Stars

Imagine running a business with very long hours and in the current Covid crisis, not a lot of customers. Curator…
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Jul. 22, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Urban Logiq Webinar~Supporting Main Street Businesses Through Recovery

If you heard Vancouver’s Duke of Data Andy Yan on the Urban Logiq series you will know how current and…
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Jul. 21, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

A 290 square foot apartment in Sydney Australia

From the Australian Financial Post is the story of this architect designed 27 square meters (that’s 290 square feet) apartment…

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