The Costs of Deferring TransitPaul Pinsker, now retired from the Engineering Department at Vancouver City Hall (his special focus was on parking standards), sent…
The Rise of WalkUPs and the Fall of SprawlThere are few better than Chris Leinberger (quoted in the post immediately below) at coming up with clever coinage. His latest?…
What developers and investors really think about transitThey like it – a lot. In the current issue of UrbanLand, members of Urban Land Institute’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)…
A lifetime on Broadway? – Stephen Quinn’s take on my takeStephen Quinn pens a more serious column than usual in the Saturday Globe and Mail – and does a fine job…
Extraordinary Facts: Five Metrotowns on BroadwayAccording to this population and density map comparing the use of the B-Line with the rapid-transit lines, there is the…
Tolls, transit and TransLink troublesJeff Nagel reports on prospects for the new Transportation Minister, Mary Polak: Expect new Transportation Minister Mary Polak to offer…
The canary is dead – but so what?The most important story with the least amount of coverage: Something extraordinary is happening when graphs of melting Arctic sea-ice…
CMHC EQuilibrium™ Sustainable Housing Demonstration InitiativeFrom CMHC: The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) EQuilibrium™ Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative* is bringing world-class sustainable housing examples…
Carbon Talks and Carbon ThoughtsCarbonTalks at SFU asked two dozen thought leaders in government, business, academia and the non-profit sector what they thought about…
Something I never thought of … until nowNamely this: From Green Building Advisor: … those ubiquitous red or green illuminated signs that direct our escape from a…
Is housing more affordable in the suburbs?Not necessarily. From Atlantic Cities: If you want more affordable housing, you might guess that moving to the suburbs is…
Quote: Bob Rennie on new patterns in home ownershipBob Rennie in the Huffington Post: The baby boomer is so automobile dependent because they needed it to socialize. Today…
Falcon’s LegacyKevin Falcon’s legacy: Port Mann Bridge, almost finished. . What an icon! Whatever else will be said about it, the…
Too high housing prices? It ain’t only in CanadaKiwi issue too: The Economist magazine this month rated New Zealand’s home prices as 66 percent overvalued when compared to rents,…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner