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. […]

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Close watchers of Little Mountain know there was a fire there last night. Here’s CBC’s story on it, the most comprehensive I could find. Given the controversy there, people will have all kinds of theories, of course. The fire seems to have destroyed only one building, the one closest to 33rd and Main as far […]

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Urbanismo beat me to the punch in noticing this before I put it up, but here is a story I had in the Globe’s Report on Business section today about the trend to mixing uses in developments and sometimes single buildings. From everything I can see, Vancouver is the leader in this (just as we […]

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One more story from the mystifying world of contemporary economics, where everyone strives to attract new businesses and investors to their globally competitive cities, but no one is sure quite what works.

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Sadly for me, even though I had an invite, I didn’t get to participate in the special forum on sustainable urbanism that was held Saturday at SFU, where the highlight was an appearance by Prince Charles. (Pre-arranged birthday celebrations in other cities intervened — tragic, really.) But I heard it was inspirational, with the Prince […]

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The pre-construction fencing has been up around the Little Mountain site the last couple of weeks, but demolition only officially started on Friday. At that point, it sounded like protests would be minor. This notice below, though, went out on Saturday from protesters planning to camp out on site. The city and province have to […]

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Boy, I can’t believe what local politics are coming to. I hope that everyone out there has confessed to all childhood shoplifting incidents or the time they were overheard calling their office-cubicle neighbour “a dork.” Anyway, here’s the latest from park board commissioner Raj Hundal, via the constantly employed Ian Baillie. MEDIA RELEASE NOV. 6 […]

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This is a bit late, but here’s my story about the elaborate ceremony to hand over the Olympic athlete’s village to VANOC on Wednesday. (Sorry, was down for the count for part of yesterday so wasn’t keeping up to speed.) It was quite the event, with the life-size Olympics mascots dancing around and everything, to […]

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It was quite a bombshell when TransLink’s recently arrived CEO Tom Prendergast started telling people Wednesday that he was going to New York. Here‘s what people had to say.

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Vancouver’s former mayor, who was denied the chance to run again when his own party voted him out as a candidate, is back in the news again after a long silence. Sam Sullivan has been studiously unavailable for the last year, but he’s emerged this week to launch his newest project, covered here in the […]

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