A good piece in The Tyee by Cynthia Yoo, reporting from the frontlines of the rental housing crunch.
… my idyllic summer evening turned quickly into a battleground scene. Dozens of flip-flopped, lululemon’ed denizens milled about the front grounds of a building in one of the most prized postal-codes in the city… These lotus-eaters’ fabled Shangri-las [...]
While searching for an image on Vancouver in Google, I came across this:
It was used in the campaign to convince Seattle voters not to support a rebuild of the Alaskan Way Viaduct (pictured above, as though transported to English Bay).
There was actually an option to run a freeway offshore in English Bay to connect with [...]
Or rather, “What are they thinking!?”
Cars and more cars: In China, car ownership at present is about 20 million, but is projected to be 250 million in 2020 (an 820% increase in a decade!), subject to the availability of a fuel.
‘Bigger is better:’ An overwhelming sense of the development projects is that the bigger they [...]
At the Oregon Health and Sciences University, of all places:
Business interests dominate new TransLink panel
By Jeff Nagel
Black Press
Aug 22 2007
The province has taken its first step toward installing a professional unelected board of directors to run a radically reformed TransLink. A screening panel of five people that critics say is too heavily weighted in favour of business interests has now been chosen to nominate [...]
Michael Pollan, the author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” - on my list for one of the best ten books read this year - wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine that tried to distill what nutrition science had learned these past few decades. It had one of the best leads to an essay [...]
A fine piece on cycling by world-traveller Michael Geller in the Sun over the weekend. Among the points he makes:
In addition to the obvious benefits of bicycles — reduced traffic congestion, fewer greenhouse gas emissions and lower transportation costs — bicycles offer another plus. In the Netherlands, you do not see as many overweight [...]
Cheeying Ho of Smart Growth BC has an op-ed in today’s Vancouver Sun. It’s a response to the ecodenialists:
Cheryl Savchenko’s Aug. 14 column Eco-density is a thin concept raises some important concerns, but unfortunately fails to understand the key role that well-planned and well-designed density plays in creating more livable, environmentally sound neighbourhoods.
I like that [...]
It’s the big news down south in Seattle: Chaos Avoided! Gridlock mysteriously doesn’t happen! How can this be!?
They’re doing some major roadwork on I-5, the freeway that runs through the heart of the city, and only a few lanes are open where traffic is normally congested during the daily commute. Naturally, a [...]
Planning Director Brent Toderian thinks Vancouver’s designers should take this New York challenge to heart.
It’s in this issue of Metropolis.
We’re poised to build the sustainable twenty-first century—as Mayor Mike envisions in his 127 proposed projects, many of them impacting the design community: the creation of parks, retrofitting buildings, making schools community-friendly, new transit, and more [...]
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