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Feb. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Urbanist Melody Ma, the Vancouver View Corridors, & Why They Are Important

The Northeast False Creek Plan goes to Council this week and Price Tags Vancouver has been looking for any rationale behind the…
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Feb. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Family Day Here, Islander Day There

Today is Family Day in British Columbia, but it will be on another date next year. The Premier of British Columbia…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Running Red Lights in Richmond!

Since September 23, four pedestrians have died on Richmond Streets. The Richmond News has now posted a very troubling YouTube video of drivers…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Yaletown Retail Businesses To Lose On~Street Parking with Axing of City Metered Cash Cow

Various media sources including the Vancouver Sun have reported on the City of Vancouver Engineering’s plan to reduce 80 to 90 …
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Feb. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning~Digitized Surveillance in Cities in China

  The New York Times  has written about the increasing invasion of personal information and biometric data in China where cities store…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Is NYC's Times Square the Future Placemaking Blueprint for other Cities?

What used to be a very seedy, dirty and crowded area of New York City has undertaken a dramatic renewal…
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Feb. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Duke of Data Andy Yan and Who is Renting Where~City of Vancouver

The Duke of Data Andy Yan, Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University has been reviewing the 2016…
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Feb. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

The TSP Pledge: Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities

From Curbed: Fifteen leading technology and transportation companies announced the Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities, a voluntary set of…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Northeast False Creek Plan, Coalition of Neighbourhoods, and Three Too Tall Towers

  The Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods has written the following statement on their website regarding the Northeast False Creek Plan. Several of…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Health & Planning Innovators~ Dr. John Blatherwick & Dr. Perry Kendall

    In the 1980’s health and planning were never discussed in the same sentence, seemingly separate silos with no…
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Jan. 29, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Richard Wozny, Real Estate Prices and "Mortgage Slaves"

In planning and real estate Richard Wozny is a local legend for his ability to capture the upside of real…
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Jan. 29, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

City of Vancouver Volunteer Opportunity~Public Space and Public Life Study

City of Vancouver Volunteers Deadline Jan 30 The City of Vancouver is conducting a Public Space and Public Life (PSPL)…
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Jan. 29, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

2,500 cases of Beer Missing in Metro Vancouver

Thirty-five years ago before there was an internet, a remarkable thing happened on Galiano Island. The island is located a…
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Jan. 24, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

London England's "People Parking Bay"

From Time Out in London comes this unfailingly forward story about Brenda Puech. Brenda believes in sustainability, and she had a…

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