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Perspective from Vancouver
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Congestion is our Friend - restated
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I've been arguing since I was a City Councillor that congestion is our friend. In truth, traffic congestion is inevitable given the inability of government to build the road space needed to accommodate the increase in vehicle ownership. (The an...
3 views | aggregated: 10 hours 33 min ago
topics: business, councillor, downtown, west-end, west-vancouver
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EcoMetropolitanism
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Matthew Soules is an architect (his firm is MSA) as well as an adjunct prof at UBC. The latest project of his fertile mind is EcoMetropolitanism.Along with Mari Fujita, he's written as essay for Praxis that explains the Seven Points of EcoMetrop...
1 views | aggregated: 14 hours 6 min ago
topics: density, environment
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Along the Siwash Trail
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The Siwash Rock Trail has always been my favourite Stanley Park running route. It (and the Merilees Trail) connect Third Beach with Siwash Rock and, eventually, Prospect Point. You can see them on the trail map here.It used to look more or ...
2 views | aggregated: 1 day 13 hours ago
topics: park-board
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Passerelle of the Week - Pakistan
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From Wendy Waters:If you're looking for a different take on the Passerelle concept, I thought these photos are probably unlike any that most of your readers have ever seen. These rickety pedestrian bridges cross the Hunza River in the Karakoram mo...
4 views | aggregated: 2 days 13 hours ago
topics: west-side
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Passerelle of the Week-Pakistan
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From Wendy Waters:If you're looking for a different take on the Passerelle concept, I thought these photos are probably unlike any that most of your readers have ever seen. These rickety pedestrian bridges cross the Hunza River in the Karakoram mo...
2 views | aggregated: 2 days 13 hours ago
topics: west-side
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Images of a Not-so-changing City
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I'll add my plug for Vancouver Sun photograher Lee Bacchus's and Bernie Lyon's new blog, Splinter in Your Eye:Images we like. Some we made, some we didn't. The motif is largely Vancouver, B.C. in transition, with some exceptions.It's a mix of photog...
6 views | aggregated: 5 days 8 hours ago
topics: downtown
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PT 106 Responses
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Got some responses to the latest issue of Price Tags that didn't make it into the Comments but are still worth posting:From Andrew Curran:Fantastic work on the Vaughan issue. Having grown up in the 905 belt myself - I agree that it is an ...
6 views | aggregated: 1 week 14 hours ago
topics: design, east-vancouver, langley, planning, political
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Seoul Green
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Sam Newberg's Joe-Urban newsletter just arrived in my box - always a treat. Among other items (intermodal yards in Illinois, Jan Gehl in Melbourne) is a link to pics of Cheonggyecheon in Seoul. In 2005 the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul was ...
7 views | aggregated: 1 week 1 day ago
topics: mayor
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Civic Election: First Take
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Why the loss by the NPA? I think it was the first time people had a chance to express their discontent and disdain for those who have been running things for the past little while. Not necessarily the ones around the Council table - but certainly...
12 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 3 days ago
topics: cope, councillor, developers, election, housing
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Another housing crisis
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A friend in L.A. sends in this inquiry:I recently sent in my order for Olympics tickets & now must look for lodging. I was totally stunned by the greed of the major hotel chains asking $750 -$1000/night for rooms that otherwise would be $150-$250...
11 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 3 days ago
topics: housing, olympics
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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jumpfilm
active: 12 min 35 sec ago |
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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active: 3 hours 14 min ago |
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A Piece of Glass
With the 2010 Olympics rapidly approaching, many people are concerned about the issue of homelessnes...
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active: 7 hours 18 min ago |
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