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The Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race ran from 1967 to 1996. Bruce Stewart photo at Kits Beach in 1978 evelazarus.com/the-nanaimo-to… #everyplacehasastory #kitsilano #nanaimo

Emily Carr’s 100-year-old Oak Bay cabin could be yours for $5.5 million! The good news is, it comes with a 10-bedroom heritage house designed by Samuel Maclure. evelazarus.com/emily-carrs-5-… #Victoria #emilycarr #sensationalvictoria #oakbay

“The job of a politician is to use power well,” he wrote in his memoir. “And I believe I used power well.”

Another cyclist is dead. When will Toronto wake up? The mounting toll of death and injury is simply unacceptable. It is beyond dispute that immediate action is needed. Toronto Star editorial thestar.com/opinion/editor… #cycling🚴‍♀️ #VisionZero

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A selection of drawings and a new essay from my ongoing Put On Notice series documenting development in the Church-Wellesley n’hood from Saturday’s Globe Opinion section. xoxoxo theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

What happens when you can't do the extreme building setbacks mandated by the fire code? You get smaller vehicles.

If your city cannot financially sustain its essential infrastructure without outside support, your city is fragile and its future is tenuously dependent on others.

Can This Country Show Europe How to Compete Again? Patricia Cohen nytimes.com/2024/08/13/bus…

B.C.’s plans to allow single-staircase multi-unit dwellings heralded as a move that will allow for a much needed and more affordable new type of housing. A design change that aims to unlock housing density. Gift article. Frances Bula The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/gift/30a4f28ac…

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Exciting news! Strong Towns soft-launched a new program this month. Today we’re opening it up to non-members to fill the few remaining seats. The Strong Towns Accelerator is our answer to the local leader -- inside or outside of city hall -- that wants personalized assistance

A common argument against upzoning (made by landscape architects, curiously) is that it makes land prices go up, and hence doesn't actually improve housing affordability. As you might expect, this argument is precisely backwards.🧵 1/

My latest from the Globe… Facing Victoria’s Pandora Avenue problem theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

New regional highways = more traffic in the city. It’s very simple. More regional transit = more people in the city, without their cars. One enables the city to flourish, the other destroys city life. This is why great cities across the globe have removed urban expressways.

1/Here's something a lot of people I talk to don't understand about Japanese urbanism, and why Japanese cities are so special.

As the New York City Council takes up a plan to end parking requirements on new housing, a deep look (mostly underground) at how they operate in the city today, with Mihir Zaveri + Larry Buchanan: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Reviewed : The Joy Experiments: Reimagining Mid‑sized Cities... Scott Higgins + Paul Kalbfleisch. Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, + Urban Crisis. Patrick Condon City planning + Canada’s housing crisis Frances Bula #LiteraryReviewofCanada reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2024/…

I had a quick look at the Ontario ones and they seem shockingly viable. No weird bedrooms with only skylights or similar nonsense. One unit has an upper unit kitchen on the 3rd floor not 2rd floor… but that was the only weird thing I saw. The designs seem great overall.