Call for Contributors
Spring 2007
Are you fascinated by cities?
Love city infrastructure?
Hate the commercialization of public space?
Have suggestions on how to improve transit, wish there were more community gardens, or want to critique the design of existing public spaces?
Do you like to draw, write, blog, or take photographs?
If so, re:place magazine would like your contribution.
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A brilliant series of articles on transportation in the current Vancouver Magazine here, here and here.
The most important piece is by Charles Montgomery, who travels along with Lon Laclaire, the City’s Strategic Transportation Manager, and learns some lessons. Like this one:
In 1968, the German mathematician, Dietrich Braess, was modelling the response of traffic to different road [...]
A few weeks ago, a delegation from Atlanta came to visit. Atlanta LINK - 117 leaders in business and government - had a chance to listen to the usual suspects and, more importantly, just walk around.
Here’s what the reporter accompanying them saw:
In Vancouver, civic leaders see a livable city
By Maria Saporta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/28/07 [...]
George Monbiot asks the question in The Guardian that we should be asking about Gateway:
… it should be pretty obvious that more roads and more airports will mean that our rising use of transport fuel becomes hardwired - the future health of the economy will depend on it. So the government must have examined this question. [...]
Derek Moscato, a previous Price Tags contributor (here’s an issue he did on No. 3 Road), is a regular contributor to the Province. Here’s his latest column on the Vancouver streetcar proposal.
… given Vancouver’s transit crunch, you have to wonder why it’s taken so long to resurrect the streetcars — and why TransLink bosses and [...]
“City of Bikes”? Well, more than usual: It’s Bike to Work Week.
Bike to Work Week starts tomorrow! The forecast is for sunshine for the week - a fabulous time to start biking to work, if you haven’t tried it yet. The Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition (with the help of our many sponsors, supporters, and volunteers) [...]
Here’s what you can do with a $950 camera, some free time and lots of commitment. Michael Tritt of New Zealand has produced a three-part video (soon to be four) on the unhappy car-dependent state of Auckland. More here.
Another example of the power of Internet video:
This is so Vancouver: it took an outsider from Boston to tell a Vancouver audience that the City of Vancouver itself has won an award named after one of the world’s great urbanists, Kevin Lynch.
Alan Berger, the speaker at the VIA Architecture on Urban Design last night, mentioned in passing that the City had received [...]
Canadian architectural critic Witold Rybczynski explores the architecture of Seattle in this Slate visual essay:
Seattle is an unusual sort of urban place, where sitting on a log to drink your grande latte seems normal (well, almost normal). Such an environment requires a different architectural response than, say, New York or Chicago. Both recent high-profile projects, the [...]
… you build them like this:
It’s the Stockholm subway. More pics here.
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