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Diversity of transport essential for livability
This weekend I attended Gordon Price’s “Jane’s Walk” through Vancouver’s West End — a densely populated neighbourhood situated between downtown, English Bay beach, and Stanley Park. Price told the...
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Special civic advocates for walking? cycling?
Cities need to offer residents and businesses a variety of transportation options to maximize livability. Only facilitating automobile travel makes for a polluted, congested, and...
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Automotive advertising and newspaper struggles
Many city newspapers in North America are struggling. A few months back in a post I suggested it was because they were not covering local topics, instead picking up on non-analytical wire copy and...
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Metro mania
Tens of thousands of people stood in line for hours yesterday to experience the new rapid transit line in Vancouver. Such excitement has not greeted new transit options before, which got me thinking...
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World Cup Street Celebrations Then and Now
Urbanistas often debate or discuss how to make cities less automobile-centric. Sometimes the discussion becomes an “either-or” dichotomy. But there are examples where streets can be for cars most of...
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Should “Urban Studies” be a mandatory high school course?
More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that percentage continues to grow. Yet, how well do urban residents understand cities? Do they know where housing comes from? what about...
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Tax incentives vs fixing urban spaces first
What would be more effective in attracting a new cluster? Tax incentives? or improved urban infrastructure to attract and retain more people? Or both? What’s working (or not) in your city? The...
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The delicate art of parking provisioning
(with apologies to Trent Carlson) How people live in cities is changing, faster in some places than others. In general, people are driving less. But car ownership is still quite prevalent and it...
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Fuel prices and urban shifts
How much to gasoline prices need to rise–and for how long–for people to change their behavior? The Economist blog has an intriguing piece this week on gasoline prices and demand in the US, looking at...
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Kids Books and the Absence of Walking to School
My youngest started kindergarten last week. To help her with some anxieties I took her to libraries and bookstores to find some good children’s books about going to school so she could feel more at...
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