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Mar. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

SFU City Program Courses

This upcoming course provides land-use and public health professionals with a toolkit to assess their communities from a public health…
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Mar. 22, 2021 / Gordon Price

On Planning Directors and Vancouver’s Direction

PT reader Peter C sent in this thoughtful comment in response to the post by  Sandy James on Planning director…
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Mar. 20, 2021 / Gordon Price

View from the 1920s: “Indian Park” and a Driveway

Michael Gordon, doing research in the bunker we call an Archives, came across “a proposal to declare the still-existing Kitsilano…
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Mar. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

Master Class: Green and Livable Cities

Anthony Perl at SFU passes along (with a recommendation) this online course on how cities can become more green and…
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Mar. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 2 – Complete Streets and Lolo Lanes

Councillor Tony Valente has been advocating for ‘complete streets’ even before he ran for council in the City of North…
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Mar. 17, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver: Where One More Director of Planning Bites the Dust

On March 15 2021 at 12:15 p.m. a note went out that the Director of Planning Gil Kelley was leaving…
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Mar. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

North Shore Tour 1 – Lonsdale Quay

  A trip across the water last week to meet City of North Vancouver Councillor Tony Valente for an e-bike…
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Mar. 16, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Lessons from the Dutch: Climate Change, Sea Rise & Delta Flooding

When a category five hurricane devastated New Orleans in 2005, Dutch teams consulted with New Orleans about potentially reconstructing their…
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Mar. 15, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Are We Ready for the Half-Meter Sea Rise in Metro Vancouver?

  In British Columbia Kees Lokman at UBC has been creating an open-source database called Living with Water  as a…
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Mar. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Proud Youth

A new work from the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale has appeared on the False Creek seawall at the foot of Drake…
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Mar. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stan Douglas’s Art in the Moynihan Train Hall

The greatest loss in the heritage history of America was the demolition of Pennsylvania Station in 1964.  From the grandeur…
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Mar. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Don’t let NPA Park Commissioners hear about this

From Canadian Cycling Magazine: Marcel Steeman, a regional councillor in the Netherlands, is the voice behind hundreds of people advocating…
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Mar. 10, 2021 / Gordon Price

SFU Panel: Taking It to the Streets – Mar 24

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00 PM REGISTER   What has become of our streets and the lives we lead in…
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Mar. 09, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar America Walks-Storytelling for Active Transportation Advocates

  If you have not met Mexico City’s Peatonito here is your chance. I have attached a YouTube video below…

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