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From my Business in Vancouver column:Looks like another politician has fallen into Perception Gap. Mayor Robertson seems to have believed that because the need for affordable housing is so great, the people of Vancouver actually wanted something ser...

topics: affordability, business, density, design, downtown

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John Pucher and Ralph Buehler have put out a rare paper i.e. one not about cycling on Making public transport financially sustainable. They looked at Germany, and found it had improved quality and productivity of public transit service while red...

topics: environmental, investment, planning, political, sustainability

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San Francisco architecture critic John King thinks SF could use some Manhattanizing:& the most vivid impression these days is the irrepressible street life, ground-level urbanity that allows for the unexpected and, increasingly, favors pedestrians ov...

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An occasional update on items from Motordom the world of auto dominance. WE ARE WHAT WE HONOURScot Bathgate in Auckland picked up on this indicator of culture: This is the mentality here. Can you image celebrating something like this? ________...

topics: emissions, greenhouse-gas, mayor

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David Sucher, author of City Comforts and Seattle urban blogger, has done an intriguing critique of the Olympic Village. Though it was originally a response to an article on the village by New Urban News editor Philip Langdon, I thought it deserve...

topics: architecture, design, developer, developers, housing

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The prolific Yonah Freemark has penned a piece in Next American City on the revitalization of Downtown Raleigh when a pedestrian mall was transformed:Like the central business districts of many state capitals, North Carolina's (Downtown Raleigh) was...

topics: business, density, design, downtown, environment

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From the Denver Post:Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper s policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are converting Denver into a United Nations community. &Maes said in a ...

topics: candidate, councillor, environmental, mayor, political

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Design Observer Lawrence Vale gives an extensive report of the Shanghai Expo 2010. Here s his take on the Vancouver pavillion:Just adjacent to Mecca, in Expo s geography of Urban Best Practices, is Vancouver. Housed in an elegant structure of lamin...

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The SFU Community Trust, builders of UniverCity, launched the UniverCity Childcare Centre a few weeks ago the first major building in the country to meet the Living Building Challenge, characterized as the most advanced green-building rating sys...

topics: design, sustainability

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An occasional update on items from Motordom the world of auto dominance. TWO-WAY STOPSIn response to Mike Jone s inquiry in Annals 6 why is Kits populated with so many two-way stops? David Rawsthorne, a City Transportation Engineer, was goo...

topics: city-of-vancouver, housing, transit, transportation