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Apr. 13, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Economist~Chinatown Resisting Developers in "Property Battle"

Even the magazine The Economist is weighing in on the importance of Vancouver’s Chinatown as a historic and very special cultural place…
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Apr. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Living with Kids in Higher Density~Five Kids, One Condo

Kirsten Dirksen is a television producer who has become an on-line video blogger.  Her company Faircompanies.com has a media site…
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Apr. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File~Bollards to Slow Traffic Removed Because they Slowed Traffic

In the kind of story that reminds how much motordom dominates over pedestrian safety and comfort , The Toronto Star reports that…
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Apr. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Driving Vehicles When You Are Over Eighty (Years Not Speed)

In March the Province of British Columbia enacted new rules for drivers of eighty years of age or more. Those…
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Apr. 03, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Proposed Casino Motors to Delta Council

Meanwhile South of the Fraser River where the 20th century rhetoric of motordom and industrialization reign supreme, Gateway Casinos soldiers…
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Mar. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Developer Profit More Important than Farmland in the City of Richmond

It is hard to believe that a former farming community like the City of Richmond, which has championed density in…
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Mar. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

UBC School of Planning Symposium March 16

Join UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning students for a full day of discussion on planning issues related to…
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Feb. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Snow on City Maintained Public Walkways ~Asking for a Friend

  Urbanist, designer and artist Frank Ducote took these photos of the Vancouver pedestrian pathways along the sea wall during…
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Feb. 13, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

1968 "Lazy Louts Loitering" with Mayor Tom Campbell

Time for a voyage back fifty years ago to another time and and another Mayor. Called “Tom Terrific” (and that…
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Feb. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Give up Avocado on Toast, Gain a Deposit for Housing? A 26 year old's View of Buying in London

  From the always affable Daily Scot, Scot Bathgate sends this rather cheeky article from The Guardian where 26-year-old Elle Hunt who…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Save Lives? Then Champion "Leading Pedestrian Intervals" in Metro Vancouver.

Like most things, when you look at pedestrian crashes and fatalities, these tragedies can be averted in a very simple…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

"Falling off the Ladder"~when Seniors' Pensions can't pay for Rent

As reported in the Richmond News seniors who receive Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan benefits of  $586 and…
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Jan. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Getting Old,Giving up the Car and Why Ride Share May be Important

As cities mature and the population ages, the classic use of cars as the main way to get places is…
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Jan. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Seymour Street Hisses with the Mosquito Anti-Loitering Device

  If you have been walking on Seymour Street between Robson and Smithe you have probably heard it~kind of a…

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