City Conversations

The Insanity of "Villages"

CC #167—Insanity = doing the same things over and over and expecting different results

Nov 16 • 

Brian Palmquist

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Unreliable Professionals?

CC #166—Sneaking through an end to local government professionalism

Nov 13 • 

Brian Palmquist

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Social Hoax Initiative

CC #165—"Someone needs to live in the ground level homes facing the dumpster!"

Nov 3 • 

Brian Palmquist

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October 2025

Taking the wrong gnarly fork to affordability

CC #164—The list of dead ends is substantial

Oct 28 • 

Brian Palmquist

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Vancouver's Plan to die

CC#163—Vancouver's proposed Official Development Plan will be the death of all neighbourhoods for all generations

Oct 27 • 

Brian Palmquist

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August 2025

A gnarly fork in the path to affordability

CC #162—a summer of reflection and gathering thoughts

Aug 24 • 

Brian Palmquist

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June 2025

Cri de Coeur for Canada's Homes

CC #161—A birthday reflection on getting to affordable housing

Jun 29 • 

Brian Palmquist

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Antisocial Housing

CC #160—Vancouver's Social Housing Initiative is neither social nor affordable

Jun 25 • 

Brian Palmquist

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"It takes a village...whatever that is?"

CC # 159—Why do we even need the Vancouver Plan's proposed "Villages"?

Jun 17 • 

Brian Palmquist

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May 2025

Embrace, Enhance, Evolve Part 1

CC #158—An alternative approach to planning our home

May 14 • 

Brian Palmquist

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April 2025

Jericho Lament

CC # 157— Words I'd have spoken if I thought Council was listening

Apr 15 • 

Brian Palmquist

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And now we watch and wait

CC #156—the morning after the Council by-election

Apr 7 • 

Brian Palmquist

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