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Apr. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File: Pay Attention to the Zebra in the Streets in Bolivia

The Atlantic Monthly describes the innovative attempts of the City of La Paz Bolivia in  changing driver behaviour in the streets,…
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Apr. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The "stupid stupid bridge"-Learning from Copenhagen's Mistakes

It is a “stupid stupid bridge“. From Arch Daily comes this little gem which shows that even the smart folks in Copenhagen…
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Apr. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Homelessness Numbers Up 30% Since Last Count

The CBC has reported that the number of people sleeping on the street in Metro Vancouver has increased by 30 per…
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Apr. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Art Gallery Asks Feds for $100 Million for New Building

The Vancouver Sun reporter Kevin Griffin  gives the latest on the Vancouver Art Gallery’s missive to build the proposed Herzog &…
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Mar. 31, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File-The Beauty, The Beast, The Crosswalk Version

The street can be used for many things, and disrupting the travelled portion of the road for some of the…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Aging, Design and the City and Why This Matters

By 2030, one-quarter of all Canadians will be over 65 years of age, which will have profound impacts on Canadian…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Feds Not Funding Massey Bridge. Province Not Matching Metro Vancouver Transit.

The Federal government’s budget came down last week and it was called “Building a Strong Middle Class”. With that sentiment,…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Vancouver Special Space? Named After Architectural Visionary, Bing Thom

Ralph Segal was the senior architect and development planner for the Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. He is…
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Mar. 23, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"Building more Roads to reduce Congestion drives Traffic up"

Nic Slater posted this excellent three-minute video, produced in Great Britain but with much relevance to the situation with the…
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Larry Beasley and Metro Vancouver's Potential Third Housing Sector

Both Peter Ladner in Business in Vancouver  and columnist Daphne Bramham in the Vancouver Sun  have featured comments made by Larry…
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

San Francisco-A Childless City and Richmond-A Dog Park

The New York Times  notes that San Francisco, with a population of 865,000 has “ roughly the same number of dogs as…
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Mar. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Public Art Trumps Billboards in Coachella Valley

  Tara Culham passes along this article from Twisted Sifter.com where from Feb. 25 through April 30, 2017, “the Coachella Valley California and…
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Mar. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge Becomes Election Tunnel

In the  Globe and Mail  Ian Bailey  reports that the proposed Massey Bridge which is slated to replace the Massey…
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Mar. 17, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Rise of the Blog-o-Bot

As farm workers found in the century before last, and factory workers in the last century — machine takeover of…

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