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Aug. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning~Pedestrians Die from Car Based Infrastructure, not Texting

  From the Daily Durning, Tom Durning sends Angie Schmidtt’s article on StreetsBlog takes a chunk out of that argument that pedestrians…
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Aug. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning: Vacant Homes Epidemic in Major Cities, Paris Fights Back

From the Daily Tom Durning, this article from  Better Dwelling describes how rampant real estate speculation has  created “artificial shortages” of housing…
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Jul. 31, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

San Francisco Seniors Protest for Longer Pedestrian Crossing Times

The San Francisco Examiner and Joe Rodrigeuz   report on an unusual protest Friday morning where fifty senior citizens carried out…
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Jul. 29, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis

Michael Greenberg’s lengthy article in the New York Review of Books is available (maybe just briefly) without the paywall. A…
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Jul. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

CRA Flipping out on Flippers

    Source: Globe and Mail Darryl Greer of Business in Vancouver reports on a practice that has been so universally…
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Jul. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Pressing That Pedestrian Button

As reported in the Boston Globe, more American cities are taking the attitude that their city traffic flows  well without the…
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Jul. 26, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Richmond Officially Asks Province not to bridge the Massey River gap

From the Daily Scot, Scot Bathgate informs us that the City of Richmond has officially asked the Province of B.C.…
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Jul. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Back to the Bridge and the "Rotting" Tunnel Vision

  You would hope that the Vancouver region could work on a cohesive vision of accessibility and affordability that includes…
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Jul. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Affordable Rental Housing Program through Vancouver Developers?

Image: Daily Hive Frances Bula in the Globe and Mail reports that the City of Vancouver will be requiring developers to ensure…
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Jul. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

You Can Buy a Vancouver Laneway House!

Image Vancouver Sun   As reported by Jen St. Denis in the Metro News there’s some big changes coming for single family…
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Jul. 06, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Lance Berlowitz on the Grenfell Tower Disaster. Lessons for Vancouver?

Noted architect and author Lance Berlowitz has written a thoughtful and compelling opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun. There was a universal…
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Jul. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Revisiting Massey Bridge Issues A Year Later

  Work continues at the  Massey Tunnel where millions of dollars of preload and preconstruction work is progressing  for the…
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Jun. 16, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

When Cars Cross the Line in Ottawa

Pedestrians as walkers and as people using the street generally are quite polite about it, because the consequences of being…
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Jun. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Children Can't Detect Car Speed over 32 km/h

The Telegraph follows up on a subject covered earlier in Price Tags-studies conducted at universities are showing that children have perceptual limitations…

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