City Conversation: Covid / Climate ConnectionThe Pandemic & Climate Change Can COVID-19 get us to respond to the climate crisis? City Conversations continues in a…
SFU City Conversation: Golf Courses, or Housing & Parks? – Feb 20There’s a new proposal to convert half of each of Vancouver’s three city-owned golf courses to up to 10,000 homes,…
City Conversation: A City Without Artists? – Jan 16Vancouver has the highest density of artists per capita in Canada. But they’ve lost nearly 400,000 square feet of studio…
SFU City Conversations: When Facts Fail – Apr 18Municipal Policy in the Disinformation Age Biased, misleading, and incorrect information has long influenced public policy development to varying degrees,…
SFU City Conversations – Feb 21Philanthropy is a critically important part of Canadian life. However, the 2018 Giving Report finds that the current model of philanthropy in…
SFU City Conversations: Building the Cycling City – Sep 20With 22.5 million bicycles for a population of 18 million, the Netherlands is undoubtedly the world’s top cycling nation. However,…
SFU City Conversations: Not-So-Social Media – July 19Facebook, Google, and Twitter may be central to how we communicate with others, but these powerful tools come with an…
City Conversation: Real Estate – The Wild West Coast – Mar 15Is B.C. the Wild West? Housing Loans, Money Laundering, Numbered Companies, and More Private individuals, including known drug dealers,…
Modernist Vancouver Fire Halls Going Going Gone…There is a lot of history in Vancouver Fire Halls and retired fireman Alex Matches has documented and written about much…
The U.S. 10 Year Census Count Tries to Find Every Dwelling, Especially in CitiesIn cities where there is a shortage of housing and people are living in unorthodox dwellings, how do you carry…
When the Mountain View Needs To be Trimmed~City Says Three Overheight Towers ARE the ViewMike Howell at the Vancouver Courier has written an an evocative column on why the City says it is “ok”to…
The Duke of Data Andy Yan and Who is Renting Where~City of VancouverThe Duke of Data Andy Yan, Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University has been reviewing the 2016…
Nix the Farmland,Build a Mansion in Richmond~Make Millions for Shell CompanyIf anyone ever doubted that farmland was being usurped and transferred into private gated estate cash cows, this story in the…
Canadian Shopping Mall Report Card Released~Urban Malls are "In"The Retail Council of Canada has released its annual report on how Canada’s shopping malls are doing. Canada’s top…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner