July 31, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Controversial Vancouver homeless shelter to close [The Globe and Mail]

Proposed social housing site worries Strathcona residents [The Vancouver Courier]

West End tower proposal worries residents seeking affordable rentals [The Vancouver Courier]

Robertson backpeddles on previous support for “critical mess” [City Caucus]

Critical Mass tests cycling supporters [The Vancouver Sun]

TransLink aims to put more tolls on roads and bridges [The Vancouver Sun]

BC Ferries, TransLink not bound by recommendations in government review [Stephen Rees's Blog]

TransLink, BC Ferries more independent than Liberals think [The Vancouver Sun]

Is Vancouver About to Become the Greenest City in the World? [Stephen Rees's Blog]

What’s Your Hundred Mile Holiday? [The Tyee]

How to Expand Our Arts Communities [The Tyee]

INTERNATIONAL
Dam It All [GOOD Magazine]

Aesthetics and Infrastructure at London 2012 [Blueprint]

Security Test for M.T.A.: Cameras on a Train [The New York Times]

Kingsway: Block types

Text and map by Laura Kozak, re:place magazine

The urban ‘bones’ that make up a city – streets, sidewalks and blocks – have a startling impact on the way things work. This plays out at every scale, from the arterial traffic patterns that traverse the city down to the arrangement of shelves in a store. This is because urban geometry is nested – shapes form within shapes. Read more

July 30, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Staff exodus a sign something is rotten in Denmark [City Caucus]

Vancouver approves Laneway Housing and “Suites within Suites” [Brent Toderian's Blog]

Homeowners line up for permits to convert garages to living quarters [The Vancouver Sun]

Ikea’s guerrilla ads annoy Vancouver retailer [CBC]

Police warn motorists to avoid Friday’s ‘Critical Mass’ bike ride [The Vancouver Sun]

Friday’s Critical Mass bike ride will be first since Burrard Bridge lane trial began [The Georgia Straight]

Vancouver needs a pedestrian advocate [The Vancouver Observer]

Generations X and Y Vancouver and Victoria [Vancouver Sun]

TransitDB: a prizewinning Vancouver transit website [Buzzer Blog]

CANADA
Passerelle of the Month [Price Tags]

INTERNATIONAL
Portland area consumes electricity at record rate [The Oregonian]

Lake country [Emergent Urbanism]

Fertile Crescent ‘will disappear this century’ [New Scientist]

Transforming Paris: “Le Grand Paris 2030” as a Post-Kyoto Metropolis [Worldchanging]

Neighborhoods Key to Future Income, Study Finds [The Washington Post]

David Suzuki: G8 moves forward on climate change, but is it enough? [The Georgia Straight]

Infill: New Houses for Urban Sites

Authors: Adam Mornement and Annabel Biles (Laurence King Publishing, 2009)

As cities continue to grow at unprecedented rates, intelligent and creative approaches to urban housing are becoming increasingly important. Infill: New Houses for Urban Sites, by Adam Mornement and Annabel Biles, highlights how small, irregular and neglected spaces within the urban environment can be transformed into unique, liveable and functional homes through smart and resourceful design. Read more

July 29, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Green Premier’s agenda hits snag as energy plan rejected [The Globe and Mail]

The dark side of the Celebration of Light [The Globe and Mail]

No medals for Vancouver council in the free-speech event [The Vancouver Sun]

Proposed social housing site worries Strathcona residents [The Vancouver Courier]

Council patio bylaw mixed bag for locals [Vancouver Observer]

Ikea graffiti aims to sink small businesses — and that sucks [Community of Interest]

TransLink may face new overhaul as province orders review [BC Local News]

TransLink may face new overhaul as province orders review [Stephen Rees's blog]

Arts Groups: Surviving the Culture Change [The Tyee]

INTERNATIONAL
10 Best US Cities For Local Food [Huffington Post]

How Local Rebuilding Efforts are Working in New Orleans [Worldchanging]

The Costliest Ride [Governing]

July 28, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Vancouver’s ‘Brand’: Ski Bums or Green Brainiacs? [The Tyee]

The laneway house: A novel solution to Vancouver’s real-estate crunch [Globe and Mail]

Low river levels prompts water conservation warning in southern B.C. [Vancouver Sun]

INTERNATIONAL
Carmaggeddon Averted as Broadway Comes to Life [Stephen Rees's Blog]

Two Videos, Two Cultures [Price Tags]

Welcome to Mannahatta [The Mannahatta Project]

Cape Town’s Rising Art Scene [Travel & Leisure]

Tonight on the Knowledge Network: URBAN GODDESS: JANE JACOBS RECONSIDERED

[EDITORS NOTE: A special thanks to Steven G. for this one!]

URBAN GODDESS: JANE JACOBS RECONSIDERED - Knowledge Network, July 28th, 10pm.
Urban Goddess, Jane Jacobs Reconsidered explores the legacy of Jane Jacobs, a champion of neighbourhood activism, through two redevelopment disputes in neighbourhoods in New York and Toronto. Read more

July 27, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Vision Vancouver mulls move to provincial stage [Globe and Mail]

INTERNATIONAL
Las Vegas housing supply hits 3-year low [Las Vegas Sun]

Harvesting Clean Energy Along the Road [The New York Times]

Backyard cottages for Seattle? Not so fast. [Crosscut]

‘Misimpressions’ about the Viaduct plan [Crosscut]

A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1929 (Part 2 or 2)

By Chuck Davis, The History of Vancouver
Photos courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Money in the Kitty

On May 30, 1929 the city bought Little Mountain—now Queen Elizabeth Park—from the CPR for $115,270, and a couple of months later it was announced that Vancouver’s brand-new chief constable, W.J. Bingham—he had been a District Supervisor with London’s Metropolitan Police—would be given a three-year contract and an increase in pay to $6,000 a year. Read more

July 26, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Canada Line City Centre Station [Price Tags]

Marpole Grows: Communicating Development Scenarios [Planning Pool]

INTERNATIONAL
Oh, those sexy building codes: More powerful than 100 nuclear plants [Grist]

Temporary Spaces and Creative Infill [Worldchanging]

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