Back to the Massey Bridge-Out to TenderThat 3.5 billion dollar project that just seems to go ahead regardless of public input from others in Metro Vancouver…
Splash and Sleep at Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall The Vancouver Sun reports that the waterpark located to the west of the 1.2 million square foot Tsawwassen Mills Mall…
Do Busy Roads Cause Dementia?The BBC has reported on a Canadian study published in the Lancet that suggests that people living within fifty meters of…
Port Metro Vancouver and continuing habitat losses to the Fraser River EstuaryThe Globe and Mail newspaper reporter Mark Hume has just reviewed the Community Mapping Network (CMN) work which sampled the 151…
Get Rid of Speed Bumps, Fix Air Pollution.As reported in the British Telegraph, Motordom’s last gasp is alive and well with a science reporter letting us know that…
The Rise of Cities in Trumpian Times The concept of the City State is associated with classical Athens. Athens was host to citizens who studied…
Ecological Values and the Tsawwassen Mills Mega MallColumnist Pete McMartin went to the Tsawwassen Mills mega mall on opening day October 5 stating “The mall is alarmingly big, and its…
YVR Open House Today for 2037 Master Plan As part of the planning process towards the 2037 Master plan Vancouver International Airport is holding an Open House today-Wednesday October…
Cheap oil, financial markets and renewable energyWorth bringing forward: MB’s comment on Coals Ports, Stranded Assets and the Massey Bridge. MB makes a connection often overlooked: the…
Berkeley Bugle: "Limits to Growth was right"From The Guardian via Peter Berkeley: . The 1972 book Limits to Growth, which predicted our civilisation would probably collapse some…
The View from ’56: Thoughts on the Short-Term Future of Transportation PlanningI wrote the original of this essay back in the 1990s, and then submitted an update to Plan Canada, the magazine…
Netherlands Diary 6 – Frans Timmermans' Muller LectureOn March 25, 2013, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs delivered a lecture with his thoughts on history, energy, the…
Jumping the shark in AzerbaijanSpeaking of excess (below), Trump may be synonymous with over-the-top urban design and popular-culture excess, but he’s small fry compared to Ibrahim Ibrahimov, the…
Annals of Motordom – 61An occasional update on items from Motordom: ______________________________________________________________ . BACK TO THE ’60s From Sightline: … total oil consumption in…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner