aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

I have spent many hours going through the DNV Council candidates' websites, answers to questions by FONVCA, and have attendedall-candidates meetings. They are all saying the same things. The incumbents are talking about affordable housing, homelessne...

topics: bc-rail, density, pollution, sustainability, transportation

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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

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

As much as I like living on the North Shore, up in Lynn Valley, it does feel as if I'm still in a small town in many ways. Some good, some not so good.I'm actually looking forward to some more population density because it will bring in some business...

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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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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

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I was very pleased to see an email from Todd Litman in my in box this morning. He sent me the link to his new free report on Smart Growth. It is a pdf that I suggest you download and read, and keep for future reference.Like all Todd s work it is care...

topics: business, density, developers, elected, housing

aggregated from: SFU City

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. Alth...

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

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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

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Plutonic Power Corporation Inc. partially paid for a government study assessing Toba Inlet's grizzly bear population. And now the environment ministry is putting the finishing touches on that project, Public Eye has learned. Plutonic contributed $200...

topics: density, environment