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Feb. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Place Making Where You Least Expect~Reclaiming Industrial Space for Parks

From Park People.ca and Ken Greenberg  comes the video by Garrick Mason  “Something New from Something Old”  describing some unique and some…
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Feb. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

How We Pay For Urban Transportation~ New Westminster's Innovation Thursday

From City Councillor and Urbanist Patrick Johnstone, on the City of New Westminster’s Transportation Forums at Innovation Week: Thursday March…
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Feb. 27, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

A Tale of Road Pricing in Three Cities

What can London, Stockholm and Singapore teach New York City and other places considering  congestion pricing? The New York Times explores how…
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Feb. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Modernist Vancouver Fire Halls Going Going Gone…

There is a lot of history in Vancouver Fire Halls and retired fireman Alex Matches has documented and written about much…
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Feb. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Conversation~The Future of Transportation~February 27

  From Councillor and Urbanist Patrick Johnstone, on the City of New Westminster’s Metro Conversation at Innovation Week: The theme…
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Feb. 23, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

"Wristwatching" and Amazon

National Public Radio reports on what could be the next generation of work gloves. Amazon has been granted two patents for  “wristbands…
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Feb. 23, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Mansion Estates or Class A Agricultural Land in the City of Richmond?

This story illustrates the problem of expectations when existing regulations are not enough to achieve a higher purpose, like protecting…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

New Westminster Councillor Invites You to Innovation Week February 23-Mar 2

Patrick Johnstone is a city councillor for the City of New Westminster as well as a cyclist, writer, and engaged…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Environment Canada Expressing Habitat Concern with Deltaport's Proposed Expansion

Price Tags Vancouver has been reporting on the proposal for the Port of Vancouver’s two billion dollar container terminal expansion planned…
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Feb. 21, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Rain Water Strategy Workshop

Well, we have a lot of it in Vancouver~and we don’t have a civic strategy on how to use it.…
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Feb. 20, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Why There are No Roads In London, But Lots of Streets

There are no roads in London. Take a look~there are Streets, Squares and Alleys, but “traditionally” not one single road.…
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Feb. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Surprise! Spending still up on Toronto's King Street with the Streetcar Line Project!

The City of Toronto is deep in the throes of motordom even when the King Street Streetcar demonstration project is…
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Feb. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

When the Mountain View Needs To be Trimmed~City Says Three Overheight Towers ARE the View

Mike Howell at the Vancouver Courier has written an an evocative column on why the City says it is  “ok”to…
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Feb. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Autonomous Vehicle Research & the use of Pedestrian Wrist Buzzers

It is really hard to believe that a group of researchers would be examining this issue, and even harder to…

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