Motordom Fail: “The Great Traffic Projection Swindle”Brisbane planner Greg Vann – home of internationally infamous Clem7 tunnel failure – has been keeping an eye on other…
Subject to Interpretation: The Environment Minister’s Earth Day StatementNeil Salmond picked up on this: Environment Minister Mary Polak’s Earth Day Statement – with, he says, the sneaky rhetoric…
Why is Vancouver drunk on highrises?Well, we certainly like our architectural highballs – but there are a lot of people who think we have an addiction. “You guys…
What just happened to the widest street in the world?It went on a diet. From citiscope: Avenida 9 de Julio in Buenos Aries – a triumphant boulevard (map here) that…
Department of Irony: A Warning for Our TimesI’m pretty sure this is meant to be ironic. Hey, it’s contemporary art, isn’t it? This work is on the side of the…
Big E (cont'd) – Dept. of Irony, sea-level division@UrbanEdm makes a good point in response to my post “Big E: Will defensive engineering determine how we adapt to…
Dept. of Irony: The Inescapable BoomersThe Wall Street Journal reports on how retiring boomers are choosing to relocate among the young and hip: Hip urban…
Connections: "The road to hell is paved."The provincial government has effectively announced that the Agricultural Land Reserve – the most important land-use decision in our history…
Department of Irony: Race and RavageI really doubt these two headlines were placed together to make a statement : . . And as often emphasized, a…
Department of Irony: Email hints of a coming battle on the ALRSometimes the email flow has its own surprising juxtapositions. Yesterday at 1:22 pm I got an item in the inbox…
Department of Irony: Cause and Effects, and CausesIt’s getting easier to find events and images that capture the inherent irony of industry, particularly those connected to fossil…
Department of Irony: Canadian Bridges – or, “No Peace for Port Mann”Two items came in within hours of each other. From Brent Toderian: Top 10 world’s best public spaces 6.…
Pattullo versus Pedal: Guess which one gets cut?Today is the 75th anniversary of the Pattullo Bridge. (The New Westminster News Leader tells the story here.) But its…
Department of Irony: ‘That’s all very well in practice, but how does it work in theory?’From Neil Salmond: I just came across this golden nugget in Halcrow’s traffic forecasting report for the removal of Vancouver’s…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner