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My current Business in Vancouver article:The bets are in. The stakes are high. With billions on the table for the Canada Line and the Gateway project, we have two very different visions for our region.The first, transit-oriented; the second, auto-dep...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, coal-harbour, density, design

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The Seattle branch of the Architectural Institute of America just held a competition on how to craft a better Seattle. Titled Future Shack (great name), the winners were just announced, including Danielson Grove below, a 16-unit complex in Kirkl...

topics: density, housing

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Continuing on the tour, now at the 800-block Granville:A few more weeks, and Granville will be up and running. But you ll never see it like this again before the lamp standards, trolley poles and trees go in. Remember, it used to look like this...

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Tessa, a regular PT reader, wonders:I've just been noticing recently how far apart stations on the skytrain system are compared to other metro systems in Canada & On the Expo Line, there's one station every 1.45 kilometres; on the Millennium line ...

topics: density, richmond, skytrain

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I don t usually do a lot of postings on Vancouver s real-estate market since it s a favoured topic in so many other places. But Tom Durning passed along an interesting post from a Portland blogger who picked up on an interesting anomaly:During this...

topics: density, employment, housing, real-estate, unemployment

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Celebrate the Vancouver Biennale Art in Public Spaces with a day of cycling the city along the beaches, streets and park areas on a specially designed cycling route. The Vancouver Biennale in partnership with the Vancouver Area Cycling Coali...

topics: city-of-vancouver, transit

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Sometimes a chart doesn t need any explanation. This one on obesity and active transportation comes from Todd Litman.More here. ...

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Andrew Pask of the Vancouver Public Space Network writes:I m currently working on a story for the Vancouver Public Space Network s bi-monthly publication. The subject is Vancouverism a key term from the city s urban design lexicon. Although t...

topics: architecture, density, design, planning, real-estate

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At last, the second Price Tags in a New York triplet. The first was on Times Square. And, as promised, the second is on cycling. This is a celebration of active transportation in NYC how New York is leading the way to the post-Motordom cit...

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Well, it s my favourite. And it s a hundred years old.Forest Hills Gardens bought the garden city movement to America. Designed by Grosvenor Attenbury in 1909 for the Russell Sage Foundation, it was intended to be a demonstration project for the ...

topics: design, housing, planning, transit