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Storm Clouds Gathering “Dad, do we have any hope of making Vancouver more livable and affordable in my lifetime?” My son had just finished reading my…
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How six storeys becomes seven in the Vancouver development game
City Conversation #128: Generic rezoning is good for an extra storey at development permit
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Embrace, Enhance and Evolve KitsPlan
City Conversation #127: KitsPlan is Vancouver citizens doing what their city government refuses to
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Jericho Lands + UBCx UPDATE—Time is of the Essence
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Fighting for the Soul of Vancouver
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What the Broadway Plan means for Kitsilano
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Shall I write no more forever?*
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Voting strategically with your heart
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Feint by Numbers: 350…Vancouver House High-Rises, that is
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Embrace, Enhance and Evolve Kitsilano
City Conversation #126: Affordable and compassionate policy proposals wrapped in a fictional account of one project in one neighbourhood under siege
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5% time + 25% homes + 36% residents - 2% under construction = 98% to come
City Conversation #125: 20 months into the Broadway Plan, is it just a land rush?
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False Diagrams? Not so much!
City Conversation #124: We circle back to the criticisms of our Broadway Plan modelling, starting with the Kitsilano neighbourhood
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Discard, Degrade and Destroy Jericho
City Conversation #123: A fictional account of how the Jericho community was destroyed
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Embrace, Enhance and Evolve Jericho
City Conversation #122: A fictional account of how the Jericho community’s future evolved
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Embrace, Enhance and Evolve, or Discard, Degrade and Destroy?
City Conversation #121: Stark but clear alternatives to the future of Vancouver and many other communities.[1]
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Losing the British Columbia we love
City Conversation #120: The province’s bills 44, 46 and 47 will alter British Columbia communities as we know them if passed this month—and not in a…
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