This just out in Canadian Architect, my look at the convention centre expansion along with assessments from various architects and people who care about buildings around town.
Please excuse the paucity of posts on other issues. I’ve been off this week for personal reasons. Feel free to take the threads where you want in order to [...]
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Vancouver’s new convention centre: “Better than we expected.”
November 19th, 2009 · 28 Comments
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Council gets letter missiles from both sides on Northeast False Creek debate
November 17th, 2009 · 34 Comments
Council is going to decide today on whether to generally endorse the NEFC high-level review, permitting staff to carry on in the same general direction towards a mixed residential-office zone geared to the “entertainment district” being created down there. I would note, for those who seem to think this is some kind of irreversible decision, [...]
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Can Vancouver model work in an entertainment zone? The question
November 11th, 2009 · 19 Comments
Readers of this blog have been following the debates about the new community to be created at Northeast False Creek for a while. Most MSM haven’t been paying much attention to it yet, likely because it’s just drawings on paper so far.
But it’s going to get more public attention in the future, I guarantee. This [...]
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Density around SkyTrain or industrial land?
July 22nd, 2009 · 14 Comments
Amid the deluge of reports coming to council this week and next is an interesting one that essentially poses the question to council on what to do about the site that PCI has bought next to the new Southeast Marine Drive SkyTrain station.
It’s been an article of faith among people committed to building sustainable cities [...]
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Letter from Paris: Multiculturalism, homelessness and cookware
June 12th, 2009 · 15 Comments
This is a strange moment for me, but this post brings all of you news that I am going to be writing from France and Italy very temporarily. That means I’ll still be following the usual Vancouver civic dramas, thanks to the wonders of modern and technology and ongoing emails from my spies, but [...]
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Mayor wants Northeast False Creek to “push the green agenda”
June 3rd, 2009 · 12 Comments
It’s a difficult story to follow but the Saga of Northeast False Creek is a fascinating one and will continue to develop because there are so many interests at play in that area, the big stretch of land that faces the Olympic village across False Creek.
There’s a tussle over whether the Vancouver Art Gallery will [...]
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Where Am I? author weighs in on taking lanes from cars
May 31st, 2009 · 17 Comments
While trolling the Great Big Internet Sea for something else, I stumbled across this essay from the author of the recent book attracting attention in the human-psychology world, Where Am I? Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon But Get Lost in the Mall. One more take on the debate about taking space [...]
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Vancouver moves to “open source” government
May 15th, 2009 · 9 Comments
I had a story in the Globe this morning about the Vision Vancouver council’s move to promoting open-source government, which is already generating quite a buzz in certain nerdy info-tech circles to judge by my Google alerts. Ironically, the Globe had a glitch that prevented several stories in the B.C. edition from getting posted to [...]
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Full text quotes: Gregor Robertson, Suzanne Anton, James Ridge
April 28th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Because this topic seems to be generating a lot of controversy, I will do a bit of notebook dumping here to give everyone all the evidence available before they come to a verdict. And then we can move on to other things.
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Tracking the warning emails on Olympic village
April 28th, 2009 · 6 Comments
The wheels of Freedom of Information grind slowly, slowly, but I finally got an answer last week to two questions: What record was there of meetings attended by the city’s chief financial officer, Estelle Lo, related to the Olympic Village? And what emails did she send to city hall staffers or councillors about the village?
According [...]
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