Love and the City - SFU City

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Who in the previous generation would have thought that love might become a prime force in the economy of cities? Now we know that people will only come to a city and stay in a city if they feel real affection for it and make it their place.Larry Beasley will use examples from his long practice in Vancouver and more recent work around the world to explain what he sees as the basic dimensions of the sustainable and humane city the eco-city arguing that placemaking is ...

aggregated: 38 weeks 49 min ago | 70 views

topics: architecture, burnaby, design, planning, sustainability

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More on design competitions, and building a city's "culture of design"

aggregated from: Brent Toderian's blog

Can a city's design culture be deliberately grown and fostered? If so, can City Hall be part of such a fostering, or must it come from the grass roots, from the cultural or design communities themselves? Readers know I've been musing on these quest...

aggregated: 38 weeks 6 days ago | 57 views

topics: design

The FormShift Winners

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Brent Toderian, the Vancouver s Director of Planning, blogs on Planetizen, often about Vancouver, always with insight.In his most recent post, he talks about FormShift, the competition sponsored by the City and the Architectural Institute of B.C. W...

aggregated: 38 weeks 3 days ago | 66 views

topics: architecture, density, design, environment, environmental

In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

New York Times Vauban is a suburb of Freiburg in Germany near the French border. It is car free. People give up their cars to move there. It is a very useful antidote to the sort of thinking that insists that the only way to absorb another milli...

aggregated: 39 weeks 2 hours ago | 56 views

topics: burnaby, delta, density, downtown, langley

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