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May. 07, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery~What is the Balance Between Access & Respect?

Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery opened in 1886 and is administered by the City of Vancouver. It has a 110 acre…
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May. 05, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dominato Effect: “Reallocation of Road Space to Support Shared Use during Pandemic”. And Beyond.

Finally – over a hundred days into the covid era – a city leader has articulated an initiative for “Reallocation…
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May. 05, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Impromptu Gym

The Park Board may have closed facilities like tennis courts for their usual purposes, like, um, tennis, but that hasn’t…
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May. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Sharing Space at English Bay

Beach Avenue Flow Way at English Bay – Sunday afternoon on May 5th. Another interesting real-time vignette: Beach Flow Way…
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May. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Vancouver Pinkway

This shot by Neal Lamontagne best captures the pinkway – nature’s consolation in the spring of the virus.  …
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May. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

Oakland’s Open Streets: How they do it, what they look like

Thank you, Streetfilms, for a close-up look at what Oakland, California’s ‘Open Streets’ look like.  The lessons for Vancouver are…
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Apr. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

Quiet Time at the Heronry

Below the heron condos in Stanley Park, all is as quiet as the tennis courts.  It’s egg time in the…
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Apr. 23, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Birds, Butterflies & Bees in Metro Vancouver

The Duke of Data and Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University took to twitter on the ultimate…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Taking Possession of the Pinkways

Neighbourhoods are taking possession of their greenways. Or, rather, pinkways. It’s that time of year in Vancouver East.  From the…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Impromptu Gym

  All the gyms are closed.  And, given their particularly efficient way of spreading a virus, they’re likely to be…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

How to make a street safe for hopscotch

From Ian Robertson: My neighbours have done their part to making walking fun again. Fun to see grownups doing hopscotch…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Priorities for Flow Streets

A work in progress from Aaron Licker, By taking available data on population density overlaid with access to public and…
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Apr. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dianna’s Covidiary

From Dianna: While walking around Yaletown yesterday, I realized how much our neighbourhood is changing as people figure out new…
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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

What does the Park Board really think of cyclists?

  Presumably, that they are obedient idiots. The Board placed a log to prevent access to the Kits Beach parking…

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