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Oct. 13, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Can A Mega Mall Morph into Marketed Housing Units?

  Last week the Duke of Data, Director of the  City Program at Simon Fraser University Andy Yan and I…
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Oct. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

Risk-Taking on the North Shore, CNV-style

North Van City does it again.  Whenever the City or Park Board of Vancouver looks like they will consider doing…
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Oct. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

English Bay: Another Transformative Moment

This is a big deal: Kevin Griffin at The Sun reports on the Parks Board approval of a $2.56 million…
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Oct. 05, 2020 / Gordon Price

They Got it Right: Our World in 2022

Via Daily Scot:…
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Oct. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Design (Still) Matters

  Having heard that the Urban Design Certificate Program as part of the Simon Fraser University City Program was being…
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Oct. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Small Places Video: Rapid Response on Robson

Kathleen Corey and Brian Gould of ‘small places’ – among the best videographers of the street we’ve ever posted (here’s…
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist in the Okanagan 4 – Two Kind of Towns: Bisected or Bypassed

There are two kinds of towns in the Okanagan (and most of BC). It depends on the provincial roads that…
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Sep. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Brew Normal, with Daily Scot

Items in the Inbox from Daily Scot: Have you seen the Keefer Yard in Chinatown?   My favourite outdoor Covid…
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Aug. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

How Do Pandemics Change Housing Unit and Building Design? Lessons from 1918 For Today

Andy Yan of Simon Fraser University’s City Program notes that cities are not prepared for bio-medical emergencies like the  Covid-19…
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Aug. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Growth Downtown: A Thousand Percent in Thirty Years

The guys at Changing Vancouver have one of their ‘big picture’ views of the city this week: This is all…
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Jul. 22, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Women’s Safety & Security in Cities

This article in the Conversation.com from three researchers at Monash University explores what the new Covid normal looks like in…
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Jul. 14, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Scotland Identifies Walking As Key to Post-Covid Economic Recovery

There is some interesting thought coming from  Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) in Scotland  on best practices for post-Covid economic…
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Jul. 14, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Large Glass Buildings & Bird Strikes

There’s an interesting podcast available on Scientific American by Jason Goldman about which kind of birds get killed by “bird strikes”~flying…
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Jul. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

Thin Streets: From Asphalt to Affordable Housing

By Christina DeMarco and Peter Ladner Great ideas are as much about timing as content. Remember the first attempt to…

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