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How can we in Vancouver be having a debate about bike lanes and cycle tracks without talking about fitness and active transportation? That doesn t happen in New York City:George Miller, the current president of the American Institute of Architects ...

topics: architecture, design, planning, transportation

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So you think you know Vancouver neighbourhoods? Thanks to the latest issue of Vancouver Magazine s City Guide, we can compare stats. Here s the first of a periodic comparison. See how you do.Of the following neighbourhoods, which one has the lo...

topics: coal-harbour, yaletown

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An occasional update on items from Motordom the world of auto dominance.NINE-DAY TRAFFIC JAMThey do everything bigger in China:Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing tha...

topics: business, climate-change, environment, political

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Don Buchanan sends along an article from New Geography: Vancouver: Planner's Dream, Middle Class Nightmare.With a reiteration of familiar arguments, the Calgary author lays the blame on our land-use restrictions such as the ALR and Green Zone:To ...

topics: developers, housing, provincial-government, tax

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This is a an exciting opportunity for Surrey and City Hall. Modelled after a similar course in Portland, OR.SFU AND CITY OF SURREY TRANSPORTATION LECTURE PROGRAM WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, OCTOBER 6 DECEMBER 1SFU Surrey Campus (Surrey Central City M...

topics: surrey, transportation

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Streetcars: The Missing Link? brings together decisions makers, academics and community leaders to explore, discuss and debate the potential role of streetcars as a critical link within the transportation system and the idea of bring streetcars back ...

topics: city-of-vancouver, olympic-games, transportation

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It s back!VANCOUVER SPECIAL The TourThe 2009 inaugural tour was sold out and saw over 600 ticket holders visit five homes open on tour. Feedback was so positive that the Vancouver Heritage Foundation has committed to holding this event annually.Sat...

topics: architecture, design

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This is impressive:Sharing the honour with the Smithsonian Institute, the City of Burnaby Archives is the winner of ArchivesNext's Best Re-purposing of Descriptive Data award for Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby's Heritage...

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From the Guardian:After wrestling for years with Beijing s appalling traffic and pollution problems, city planners have come up with an old-fashioned solution: bicycles. Municipal officials want to boost the number of cyclists by 25% during the next ...

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From Michael Alexander:While the Olympic Village and Sea-to Sky highway made the news, one of the best-used Olympic legacies can be found all around the downtown peninsula and the south shore of False Creek. They are the framed information panels wit...

topics: downtown, false-creek, olympic-venues, olympics