The Death and Life of the Single Family House illustrates how densification allows residents to share the stimuli of the urban core.
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Book Review: Eyes on the Street—The Life of Jane Jacobs
While Eyes on the Street will definitely resonate with fans of Jacobs’ writing, the book will appeal to a broader audience, as it is as much about how she thought as about what she wrote.
Video: The Future of Cities
The most sustainable future is a future that includes us all.
Book Review: Where We Want to Live
It is not often that a graduate school project turns into a best-selling book, let alone a transformative infrastructure projects that is reshaping a large North American city. Yet, that is exactly what happened to Ryan Gravel when he envisioned a streetcar loop inside the Atlanta city limits connecting four separate railroad lines while researching…
VIDEO: Vancouver’s Three Cities
The Vancouver of today is actually an amalgamation of three cities.
Members Matter at Strong Towns
Strong Towns is a non-profit education and advocacy organization committed to creating durable, fiscally sustainable and desirable communities.
The Artificially Inflated Land Use of Parking
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.
Squeezed Out
The majority of young people now go to school longer to compete in an economy that pays less for full-time work while charging much, much more for the primary cost of living — a home.
We The City: An Evening at the Centre—November 4
SFU Public Square, in partnership with Vancity present We The City: An Evening at the Centre, an engaging and interactive celebration of the important role that arts and culture play in reflecting and shaping the fabric of our cities. Candy Chang, Teju Cole, and Buffy Sainte-Marie will give compelling talks and Mo Dhaliwal will guide you through the…
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