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Oct. 27, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File: Humans Erode Tallest Church

In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department , BBC reports that the famous Ulm Minster Church in Ulm…
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Oct. 26, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

First Driverless Commercial Delivery-Drivers out to Pasture?

  It was not a matter of if, but when– did anyone think that driverless technology’s first commercial delivery would be…
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Oct. 25, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

New York City Councillor Takes a Stand On Pedestrian Safety-Can We Do This Too?

This article  from Next City shows what happens when you have a very successful walking city like New York City.…
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Oct. 21, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Migratory Bird Habitat versus Roberts Bank Port Expansion

City of Richmond Councillor Harold Steves has been circulating this article  written by Larry Pynn from the Vancouver Sun. While the…
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Oct. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Uber uber everywhere-Motorcycle Rickshaws in Lahore

This from a friend who has moved from Pakistan-As posted on Dawn.com, Uber has commenced a motorcycle rickshaw service in…
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Oct. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Designing or Ticketing Our Way to Safer Streets?

Fastcoexist.com weighs in on something we all think about: is the way to stop vehicular crashes a design one? Should we be…
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Oct. 13, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall a Fail for those on Foot

If we design and develop our cities and our spaces around basic principles of walkability we would have healthier happier…
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Oct. 13, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Sun Editorial-Tsawwassen Mills-"Comments Seem Almost Petty"

The Vancouver Sun Editorial Board has published an editorial today with another take on the Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall. Under the…
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Oct. 12, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

One for the Bike Lane Guerrillas

Earlier this year I wrote about the “pirated”  bike lane that was installed on Saskatchewan Drive in Edmonton at night,…
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Oct. 11, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Trending-Return of Main Street as THE Shopping Street

This article by Toronto’s Darryl Kaplan suggests that the love affair with shopping malls will be extinct within 15 years. Quoting…
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Oct. 07, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Silicon Valley, Affordable Housing, and a new Voting Block

As reported in the New York Times the San Francisco Bay area  is known for high housing prices often blamed on…
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Oct. 06, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills First Glimpse-An Initial Review

Despite fears of record crowd crushes, the parking lots were not completely full as Tsawwassen Mills, the 1.2 million square…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Cascadia Tech Hub-The Next Big Thing?

The New York Times suggests that smoother immigration policies and Vancouver’s ambitious technological hopes can spark a “Cascadia Innovation Corridor”, noting that…
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Sep. 23, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The local convenience store as Seniors' Central

Those 7-11 corner convenience stores are a staple in North American cities and in Japan. Mimi Kirk in City Lab notes that…

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