Woodwards, a homegrown department store, was once the anchor of the Downtown East Side.
When it closed, it took the economic vitality of the neighbourhood with it. After years of controversy, a new plan was agreed finally to. Details here.
But it required the demolition of additions to the original store, seen below in the right middle with the [...]
What happened to the buskers? A few years ago, Robson Street was awash in musicians, and not just on weekends. Some were pretty good, others a waste of sidewalk space. Now it’s unusual to head a good sax riff on Granville. Where did they go?
It’s not clear yet whether this motion from the Greater Vancouver Regional District on elements of the Gateway Project - widening Highway 1 and twinning the Port Mann Bridge - constitutes a turning point in the debate, but it was certainly a big boost of support for those opposing the project as currently planned. (For [...]
In my case, the Vancouver-Portland love-affair is literal. I married an Oregonian. But lots of Portlanders and Vancouverites have a platonic relationship, particularly planners, politicians and those interested in urban development.
A busload of admirers from down south showed up a few weeks ago, organized by Metro, the regional government of the Portland area, accompanied by [...]
It used to be that new information on climate change came in every month or so. Now it’s daily, and it’s getting more prominent coverage, as illustrated in the Sun with this close-to-home story on the work of SFU earth-sciences grad Johannes Koch who has been documenting the retreating glaciers of Garibaldi:
Lots of newspapers ran this lovely, scary map of [...]
Back in 1989, in my second term on City Council, I vividly remember the week when James Hansen spoke before the U.S. Senate on climate change. Hansen, now Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, could speak with authority, and he did: global warming was real, it was happening, and for the sake [...]
Stockholm extra — more analysis of the congestion-charge vote from Streetsblog:
On Sunday, residents of Stockholm, Sweden voted to continue their city’s seven-month long experiment with congestion pricing. The referendum represented a definitive success for a system that reduced traffic congestion by as much as 50 percent and decrease noxious air pollution by 14 percent. Yet, [...]
Transportation planners around the world were waiting with anticipation to see how the electorate in Stockholm would vote on whether to continue with their controversial congestion charge.
Results are in, and they’re tight. From the International Herald Tribune:
Near-complete results for the Sunday referendum showed that 51.7 percent of Stockholm voters approved the traffic toll, while [...]
Vancouver planner Jeffrey Patterson sends along a media release from the Congress for the New Urbanism, which has decided to weigh in on Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct controversy. Or more particularly, on the flaws in the analysis done by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT):
… WSDOT holds up its computer models like “the Wizard [...]
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