Archive - City Conversations

How six storeys becomes seven in the Vancouver development game

City Conversation #128: Generic rezoning is good for an extra storey at development permit

Apr 16 •

Brian Palmquist

March 2024

Embrace, Enhance and Evolve KitsPlan

City Conversation #127: KitsPlan is Vancouver citizens doing what their city government refuses to

Mar 18 •

Brian Palmquist

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

Mar 10 •

Brian Palmquist

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?

Mar 8 •

Brian Palmquist

February 2024

False Diagrams? Not so much!

City Conversation #124: We circle back to the criticisms of our Broadway Plan modelling, starting with the Kitsilano neighbourhood

Feb 20 •

Brian Palmquist

January 2024

Discard, Degrade and Destroy Jericho

City Conversation #123: A fictional account of how the Jericho community was destroyed

Jan 22 •

Brian Palmquist

Embrace, Enhance and Evolve Jericho

City Conversation #122: A fictional account of how the Jericho community’s future evolved

Jan 12 •

Brian Palmquist

December 2023

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]

Dec 15, 2023 •

Brian Palmquist

November 2023

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…

Nov 16, 2023 •

Brian Palmquist

I Never Knew my Grandfather

City Conversation #119: Remembering one of those who gave us peace and freedom

Nov 10, 2023 •

Brian Palmquist

Views from the Bridge—bleeding until they are all gone

City Conversation #118: Protected for all for decades, mountain views were being lost even before the current attacks

Nov 5, 2023 •

Brian Palmquist

October 2023

A Setting lost to the city—Part 4

City Conversation #117: Protected for a half century, mountain views may be gone in a moment

Oct 15, 2023 •

Brian Palmquist

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