While Vancouver prides itself on multi-modal transportation options, with less than half of trips into its downtown in cars, free parking is still sacrosanct for many.
Category: Urbanism
Posts related to cities and urban areas, their geography, economies, politics, social characteristics, as well as the effects on, and caused by, the built environment.
Book Review: Streetfight — Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Streetfight offers an empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning city streets to work better for everybody that use them.
What is Urban Planning? [Video]
What is Urban Planning to you? A video by University of Michigan Taubman College
Bike Lanes in Vancouver [Video]
This is a great segment on how Vancouver’s investments in bile lanes and related cycling infrastructures have made car-optional lifestyles possible in our city.
Going Wild in Vancouver with David Miller
I met up with David Miller, the President & CEO of WWF-Canada to discuss the WWF’s current Go Wild campaign while touring Vancouver’s Habitat Island
Book Review: Tactical Urbanism
Tactical Urbanism provides permission for engaged community members to become key actors in the transformation of their neighbourhoods.
Do Canadian Cities Still Work?
Over the last century, Canadian cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?
Book Review: Urban Acupuncture by Jaime Lerner
In Urban Acupuncture, Jaime Lerner outlines a method for initiating urban change through small, innovative interventions that target a specific challenge.
Vancouver “Seacycles” — Burrard Bridge to Point Grey Road
A great video that highlights the success one of Vancouver’s most recent—and controversial—urban interventions, the Seaside Greenway.
Urban Design Forum: 5! – Five Crucial Decades of City Building
This looks to be an extraordinary lecture series from the new Urban Design Forum at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.