Off to Vermont for a week to do a little cycling, then up to Montreal for the end of the Out Games. I’ll keep in touch.
Glad to see that the blog is generating some buzz. Pete McMartin responded to the jab below with a few of his own. Check it out - and add your [...]
First night of the fireworks at English Bay. Just us and a quarter million of our neighbours.
I’m not sure why photographers try to capture fireworks, or sunsets. The result is always going to be a little disappointing, since you’re turning something that generates light into something that reflects it. So we get a little arty instead.
But here’s [...]
Seattle-ite Patrick McGrath asked the following question in a comment to the “Density Game” below:
Are high rises the best way to move people into the urban core? How do they compare to 3-5 story apartment blocks in terms of their affordability and population density?
Well, Patrick … it depends.
As the post notes, the density for highrise [...]
Doug Taylor, the creator of Khenko (see post below), sent along these pics when the sculpture was placed in George Wainborn Park. It helps to know that Khenko is about five-storeys high.
SkyTrain opened in 1985. Twenty-one years later, the suburbs along the line have come of age. Looking northwest from atop a building at Gateway in Surrey:
Just over two years ago, when I was first started Price Tags, Khenko was on the cover of No. 28. Khenko is Coast Salish for the Great Blue Heron - in this case, the wired version.
Artist Doug Taylor had a vision for a work of art that would celebrate the bird’s return to False Creek: [...]
In municipal politics, “density” is a code word. For some, it’s synonymous with urban decay, or more mildly, a less prestigious neighbourhood. For others, it means diversity and vitality or smart growth.
But almost everyone associates density with height: the taller the building, the denser. And because that’s often the case, it seems to make [...]
Today’s New York Times:
From 2002 until this year, NASA’s mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: “To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers … as only NASA can.”
In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with [...]
The escalating costs of construction - a world-wide phenomenon - may be taking down a high-profile project in this town. Literally. Speculation concerns a highrise that might not make it above the second storey. Could this change the exuberant mood of a pre-Olympics city?
Here’s a cool thought for a hot day:
As far as I can tell, the diverter at Chilco and Robson marked the first traffic calming of its kind in North America.
It was part of a system of miniparks and barriers constructed West of Denman Street in 1973 to discourage short-cutting traffic. Thirty-three years later we [...]
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