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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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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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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

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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

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The journal of the Alberta Association, Canadian Institute of Planners, featured the downtown redevelopment plan of Red Deer in its recent issue. There s a strong SFU connection. The plan was developed in 2008 by lead consultants Grandview Consult...

topics: design, downtown, mayor, planning, urban-design

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Bravo, Roger Bayley!Roger (principal of Roger Bayley Inc.) is an engineer who works with Merrick Architecture on the Olympic Village project. He is also the spirit behind the Challenge Series a work in progress that will ultimately tell the sto...

topics: architecture, environmental, false-creek, political, sustainability

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Stephen Ingrouille at Going Solar, based in Melbourne, Australia, publishes an excellent transportation newsletter. You can find it here.Here s an excerpt the first of two articles on urban design - from the current issue:Social Justice & Urba...

topics: climate-change, design, environment, environmental, housing

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David Godin sends in an L.A. Times report on the real-estate damage in San Diego:From 2001 through 2008, more than 8,000 condominium units were built in downtown San Diego. That s double the number of downtown units constructed over the same period i...

topics: affordability, condo, design, developers, downtown

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It being, oh, 4:30 a.m., I left Sam the low-hanging fruit in the political blogosphere and let him post his favourites first. I read all of his political ones, and Godin too, and they're great. Here are a few more:Sacha Peter's Double Blind (doublebl...

topics: design, gateway, langley, planning, political