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Nov. 30, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Fraser River Estuary & Its Diverse Species Extinct in our Lifetime?

The Fraser River runs 1,300 kilometers from the Rocky Mountains to the Salish Sea, and creates a wide river delta…
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Nov. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Icepick is Back

In 2015, Toronto-based developer Cadillac Fairview attempted to get approval for a 26=storey office building at 555 Cordova, shoe-horned up…
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Nov. 16, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

New York City’s Prospect Park Restores 160 Year Old Pedestrian Entrance

  City of New York Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver sends on this  update on the restoration of Endale Arch in…
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Nov. 02, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Corvids in the City & Vancouver’s Canuck the Crow

In pre pandemic days I wrote about Canuck the Crow who was a Vancouver institution. Canuck was  a human-reared crow…
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Nov. 02, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar: Bird-Friendly & Biophilic City~Integrating Habitats into Urban Design & Planning

  The Bird-Friendly and Biophilic City: Integrating Safe, Natural Habitats into Urban Design and Planning Urban greening efforts often emphasize…
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Oct. 26, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Teed Off at Public Golf Courses? Australian Mayor Clover Moore Swings for a Park

There’s been some discussion that the City of Vancouver’s three public golf courses, which are classified as park land, should…
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Oct. 19, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Why Can’t We Have Sheltered Public Spaces and Parks?

Last week I wrote about the international poll on walkability which found North American cities lacking. Those cities have  not…
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Oct. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Concrete Jungle

West End street-style. 800-block Cardero In context:  …
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Oct. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

World’s Most Walkable Cities? You May Be Surprised.

As it becomes clearer that we simply can’t drive our way out of congestion, some cities like Paris are planning…
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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 / Sandy James Planner

Looking for Participants~Age in Place Study, False Creek South

 A graduate student with the Urban Studies program at Simon Fraser University is looking for participants for a masters research…
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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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