June 30, 2009 Headlines
June 30, 2009
LOCAL
Canada Day celebrations and transit service [The Buzzer Blog]
Residents still waiting for leaky-condo repair funds [The Globe and Mail]
HEAT shelters get one-year reprieve [The Globe and Mail]
Olympic village developers to review construction [State of Vancouver]
Vancouver parking rates not so bad: survey [CBC]
Dumb news story of the day [Stephen Rees's blog]
INTERNATIONAL
Saving Species No Longer a Beauty Contest [The Washington Post]
Stopping the chain saws inside the urban growth boundary [The Oregonian]
Columbia City light-rail station: Off the beaten path [The Seattle Times]
G.M., Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class [The New York Times]
An Overdue Breakout from ‘Silos,’ Borders [Citiwire]
City’s second waterfront: Riverwalk improved, but hurdles remain [The Chicago Tribune]
Urban retrofits [The Boston Globe]
A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1926
June 29, 2009
Aerial view of a seaplane over Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on the first 'trans-Canada' flight, Sept. 18, 1926. Item # Air P2.
By Chuck Davis, The History of Vancouver
Photos courtesy of Vancouver Archives
The Main Event: Famous Flight
A Canadian aviation record was launched September 11, 1926 when RCAF Squadron Leader Albert Earl Godfrey took off from Montreal and headed for Vancouver on what The Vancouver Sun called “the first seaplane flight ever made across Canada, and the first airplane flight ever made across Canada.” Read more
June 29, 2009 Headlines
June 29, 2009
LOCAL
Malls brace for parking deluge when new transit service begins [Vancouver Sun]
BC Transit plan to search bus riders ‘illegal,’ civil liberties association says [Vancouver Sun]
Call for investigation into mouldy Olympic Village allegations [The Province]
Residents watch their home vanish [The Province]
Bridge brings communities together [The Province]
B.C. to cover cost of emergency shelters [Globe and Mail]
CANADA
Why Richard Florida’s honeymoon is over [Stephen Rees's Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
The Transition Initiative [Orion Magazine]
Brazil grants land rights to squatters living in Amazon rainforest [Guardian]
The Self-Service City [The New York Times]
Changing Skyline: Four visions for creating a green gem on the riverfront [The Philadelphia Inquirer]
June 28, 2009 Headlines
June 28, 2009
LOCAL
Village could win mould gold [The Province]
New cycling route officially opens [The Province]
Homeless shelters are turning up the HEAT [The Province]
Consultation? What consultation? asks one Vancouver resident [City Caucus]
INTERNATIONAL
In Amsterdam, more trips now by bike than by car [The Oregonian]
Good Parks Are Good for the Economy [Gotham Gazette]
Add-ons vs. scrape-offs [Denver Daily News]
June 27, 2009 Headlines
June 27, 2009
LOCAL
Business community bashes Burrard Bridge bike lane trial [THe Vancouver Courier]
Vancouver Mayor’s quick fix for homeless a long-term nuisance [The Globe and Mail]
Temporary shelters’ future in doubt [The Vancouver Courier]
Walton Hotel rises from the ashes [The Vancouver Sun]
View-corridor debate: Round 2 [State of Vancouver]
CANADA
Where the streets have no cars [Toronto Star]
INTERNATIONAL
Power lurks in Oregon forests [The Oregonian]
Green Bike Project reduces congestion, changes lifestyles [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
Curve Your Wheels [The Architect's Newspaper]
Gold Nugget Winners Signal New Era in Housing Design [Builder Magazine]
State of the Air: Issue 23 Preview [Next American City]
Planning Pool - Thoughts on urban planning from Vancouver to the world
June 26, 2009
by Daniella Fergusson and Vanessa Kay, Planning Pool
Over the dying embers of 2008, a handful of urban planning students gathered after class at UBC to lay the groundwork for a new independent website. Our goal was to create an online venue for discussions about city planning, and for sharing our excitement about new developments in information and communication technologies and what they might mean for the future of planning.
Read more
June 26, 2009 Headlines
June 26, 2009
LOCAL
A bridge, abridged [Globe and Mail]
Councillor Andrea Reimer’s First Six Months on City Council [The Vancouver Observer]
The high cost of affordable housing at the Olympic Village [The Vancouver Sun]
Mayor Robertson’s statement on the shelters controversy [State of Vancouver]
Temporary housing waiting on provincial funds, says mayor [The Hook]
Mayor promises stricter rules to clean up crime-plagued shelters [The Globe and Mail]
One trash bin + one year = one clear conscience [The Globe and Mail]
The Art of Living for Free [The Tyee]
Climate change the subject of Metro Vancouver trash talks [The Georgia Straight]
CANADA
Here’s the Plan: Calgary leads us all to a greener future [The Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
The lure of the line [The Wenatchee World]
More preemies born in neighborhoods with heavy pollution from cars, trucks [Environmental Health News]
How Much Would You Pay To Cross A New Columbia Bridge? [Oregon Public Broadcasting News]
Hidden treasures of Fremont [Crosscut]
A Walk with Bob Yaro [Urban Omnibus]
European cities introduce new tram-train technology [City Mayors]
Seattle’s New High-Tech Hub [The New York Times]
Exurban Growth Greater Than Central Growth: Census Bureau [New Geography]
In Focus: Ivan Oyarzun/Selected Images
June 25, 2009
“…the sectors of the city are to some extent decipherable but the personal meaning they have had for us is incommunicable…we are seperated from the city by our own non-intervention.”
- Guy Debord
(Critique de la Seperation: Paris 1961)
You can approach the city as a Flaneur, capturing images and engaging with the city in a way that places the changes you see in a ‘romantic’ light. Navigating through spaces with some visual intention gathering ’scenes’ to define the city in your own image or you may feel that the city should be understood anonymously as a ‘passer-by’ creating a visual language that forms a narrative of urban life: As a ‘Usager de la Ville’ who acts similarly to the Flanuer. Read more
June 25, 2009 Headlines
June 25, 2009
LOCAL
Stop harassing us, Olympic protesters tell police [The Globe and Mail]
NDP demand investigation into missing BC Rail emails [The Hook]
Missing emails in BC Rail case [Stephen Rees's blog]
Mayor’s image at stake in housing plan [The Vancouver Sun]
Golden Ears Bridge exceeds traffic estimates, but no tolls yet [The Vancouver Sun]
Why the ruling on Canada Line must stand [The Vancouver Observer]
Oakridge Canada Line station open house + Design for Diversity event, Sat June 27 [Buzzer Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
Seattle council plans to repeal employee head tax [The Seattle Times]
Celebrating the Northwest’s floating world [Crosscut]
Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears [The New York Times]
M.T.A. Sells Naming Rights to Subway Station [The New York Times]
New Lives for Old Buildings [Governing Magazine]
Removing Aetna Viaduct Could Help Heal Hartford [Hartford Courant]
Cities For A Small Planet
June 24, 2009
Author: Richard Rogers (Basic Books, 1998)
Cities, through every measure, are man-made entities that have the greatest physical impact on the planet today. Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers attempts to explain this slowly inverting relationship between the two. Cities may soon dictate how the environment behaves.
