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Mar. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File: Take Two Eiffel Towers and London Bridge Please

For the Friday File the New York Times reports that there are ten White Houses, four Arcs de Triomphe, a few…
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Mar. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Avoiding Death by Gentle Density?

Once again from Jen St. Denis with Metro News  housing experts weigh in on the “gentle density ” proposals put…
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Mar. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Rowhouses, Townhouses without Land Assembly Future Vision of Mayor

Jen St. Denis in Metro News reports on the Mayor of Vancouver’s speech to the Urban Land Institute. Unlike  real estate…
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Mar. 02, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Rogers Sugar Building Losing its View

Carlito Pablo in the Georgia Straight reports on the expansion of the Vancouver waterfront container terminal owned by Port Vancouver.…
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Mar. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

China's Banks Cooling Vancouver Housing Investment?

There are some interesting changes occurring in China which may impact the Vancouver housing market. As reported in Business in Vancouver …
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Feb. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Church Rezoning versus Single Family Neighbours

  Cheryl Chan in the Vancouver Sun  reports on the  Dunbar Ryerson United Church located in Kerrisdale that has  a…
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Feb. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

CN Rail, District of West Vancouver, and One Walkway/Bikeway

Its one of those stories that just won’t go away-why do the railways in major cities behave in such an…
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Feb. 23, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

A Bridge?? Are You Nuts??

Despite few people swimming across the Rio Cuale, this pedestrian and bike bridge over it quickly became crowded day and…
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Feb. 22, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Density and the Missing Middle-Video Now available

Further to the talk  by Michael Geller at Simon Fraser University about  European examples of “middling” density and form (as…
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Feb. 21, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Arbutus Thoughts From Far Far Away

Attached is a photo essay inspired by the design stage of the Arbutus Greenway. Other places, it seems, have done things in…
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Feb. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

1940, Housing, And Why this Matters

As Chris Brown reports on the CBC there has been a major brouhaha regarding the City of Vancouver’s 12,000 homes that were…
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Feb. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Density and the Missing Middle-Learning from Europe

There has been a lot of discussion about housing density and what higher density can look like without going to…
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Feb. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Tiny House Solution to Affordability?

Wanyee Li with Metro News reports on tiny houses and their owners, folks that have a 250 square foot house on…
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Feb. 17, 2017 / Gordon Price

Making the Links in Mexico City: Climate Change to Migration

Cities are first and foremost about water: No water, no city.  And the consequences of urban water crises can be…

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