Globe architecture critic Lisa Rochon profiles Vancouver developer Ian Gillespie here.
(You’d think that by now the hometown Sun would be embarrassed that Toronto’s newspaper is doing a better job of covering the built environment of Vancouver than they are.)
Rochon’s column profiles Gillespie’s projects from Shangri-La to Woodward’s, and makes this fascinating observation about the latter:
The [...]
Trevor Boddy, in his Globe and Mail column, gives a balanced view of James Kunstler (Geography of Nowhere) and his dissection of Kelowna.
The new open space at Nelson and Mainland - now in the heart of new Yaletown - is almost complete. And already it’s generating hard opinions.
It’s a stretch to call it a park. There’s hardly a living plant in the place. The surface is either concrete or granite block, right up to the slender trunks [...]
No doubt the Minister of Transportation, Kevin Falcon, would like to thank all those who criticized TransLink for its failings and lack of accountability. That provided the necessary cover to ‘reform’ an organization which had few defenders. And to turn it over to an unelected board dominated by business interests.
Though there’s not been a lot [...]
In Price Tags 93, the seond in a recent series on Australian cities, this time: Melbourne.
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Like Vancouver (with which it shares the status of world’s most livable city), the Melbourne region is an overlapping mix of walking core, transit corridor and car-dependent suburb. But Melbourne has become an even better city than it was, at least in [...]
It’s happening! At least one section of Pacific Boulevard - the surface expressway that runs through Yaletown - is being rebuilt according to the Jacobs/Macdonald Plan.
Allan Jacobs and Elizabeth Macdonald, they of “The Boulevard Book,” worked up a design for the conversion of PacBlvd some years ago, though City Council didn’t have money to pay for [...]
Trampe the Bicycle Lift - Trondheim Norway
I’m note sure why there’s been this sudden spate of bicycle videos (or maybe I’m just discovering them) - but here’s another: the famous Bicycle Lift of Trondheim!
[Actually, Trondheim may be more famous as the first city to introduce electronic congestion charging for its core.]
London’s Mayor, Ken Livingstone, comments about his congestion charge with the prospect of adoption by New York City. Hint: he thinks it’s a good thing.
…. New York’s decision has another implication. It is a final nail in the coffin of the claim by rightwing pressure groups and anti-environmentalists that policies being pursued in London are [...]
The Minister of Transportation is turning TransLink over to a special-interest group. One board member will be appointed by the Province, another by the Mayors’ Council, and the rest put forward by:
o Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC;
o Vancouver Board of Trade;
o Greater Vancouver Gateway Society.
No transit users, no community-based groups, no cyclists, no land-use [...]
Here’s Planning Director Brent Toderian’s latest blog entry at Planetizen:
The Importance of Beauty: A Personal and Professional Perspective
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