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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. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

Congestion Charging is so last century. Welcome to the new age of Transport Pricing

When I first heard about the proposal for ‘Transport Pricing’ in the City of Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Action Plan that…
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Nov. 26, 2020 / Gordon Price

VCPC 2020 Year in Review Workshop – Dec 14

Year in Review 2020 is the 6th annual workshop convened by the Vancouver City Planning Commission’s Chronology Program to discuss the most transformative…
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Nov. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Other World Public Art? Monolith Discovered in Utah Desert

Coincidence? The Turner Movie Channel plays the full version of 2001: A Space Odyssey on the weekend, the 1968 classic…
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Nov. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Brussels Belgium Skipped Apartments, Went to “Maisons de Maitre”.

Bloomberg’s Feargus O’Sullivan has been writing an interesting series on housing in world cities. He took a look at Brussels…
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Nov. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Five Good Ideas to Build a Resilient City~Canadian Urban Institute

Cities are the fundamental building block of contemporary society, certainly in Canada where almost 90 per cent of our population…
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Nov. 23, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

East London England Melds Youth in Street and Public Space Design Process

Last week I wrote about 6 year old Arianne who saw the issue crossing Centre Avenue in Ladner with her…
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Nov. 18, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Six Year Old Takes on Delta City Hall for Needed Crosswalk

A six year old girl was trying to cross Central Avenue in Ladner between the Lions Park and London Drugs.…
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Nov. 18, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Future Cities Canada Event Webinars to November 27

There are a series of interesting webinars and events that are being sponsored by Future Cities Canada. The registration and…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Xiguan Shuffle

We’ll put this under ‘Walking and Dancing.’ The principle at Xi Guan Elementary School, Zhang Pengfei, introduced his students to…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Vancouver Park Board & Commissioners~ Staying in their Lane?

Vancouver is the only city in Canada that still has a separate park board. That means that there is a…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Through Two Plagues~Fundraising Webinar to Benefit Vancouver Archives

  If you have not been on a walking tour or an event and met Vancouver historian John Atkin, now…
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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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