Discussion on the public realm

Livable cities

Urban growth boundaries are the key to controlling development. This is one example.

Green Building 101

Sea levels would rise by 216 feet if all the land ice on the planet were to melt.

Building will pay for itself in ten years

http://www.popsci.com/wind-machine-you-can-call-home

Discussion on geography and economics of nations

Cities Safer by Design

"Save lives from traffic fatalities through improved street design."
http://www.wri.org/publication/cities-safer-design

Housing Subsidies as “Vaccines”

http://urbanland.uli.org/sustainability/seeing-housing-vaccine-healthier-children/

The average employed Atlantean drive 66 miles per day?

Solar panels that you can drive, park and walk on

Steps to create a more walkable city

Chemistry and physics fighting back for public spaces!

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/news/a16592/pee-proof-wall-paint/

Less parking garages and more parks!

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Environmental psychology – how does a place make you feel?

http://landarchs.com/the-best-ways-to-apply-environmental-psychology/

Vanity heights in tall buildings

http://www.citylab.com/design/2013/09/most-worlds-tallest-buildings-game-system-vanity-height/6822/

Did you know there were different types of sprawl?

http://bettercities.net/news-opinion/blogs/kevin-klinkenberg/21689/four-types-sprawl

Sustainability starts at home

http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/how-to-solve-the-food-waste-problem/

Resiliency in Cities

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/architecture-critic-michael-kimmelman-cities-for-tomorrow

and this video as one example:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/to-keep-manhattan-from-flooding-planners-embrace-public-space/article25502222/

View Protection

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jul/14/how-protected-views-shaping-cities-heritage-development

The plot thickens

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-15/the-exact-moment-big-cities-got-too-expensive-for-millennials

YouTube Link

5 human activities you can see from space 

https://youtu.be/MNQ9z_Eb-Jc

Fun Friday Links

http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/08/removing-barriers-to-fix-70s-era-flaw/

How-canadas-top-architects-designed-a-pan-am-district-from-scratch

 "We all have to find a solution. Should [the City of Vancouver] force someone to develop? No. Could they incentivize someone to develop? Yes," he said. "We identify sites for height. We identify sites that are by transit that can have more density. One day, will we look at sites that aren't utilizing their full potential and incentivize [owners] to develop? Maybe." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vacant-lot-on-vancouver-s-robson-street-is-decades-old-8-5m-real-estate-mystery-1.3143211?cmp=rss

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/30/how-build-city-step-by-step-diy-guide

http://reimaginedowntown.com/bing-thom-reimagines-downtown-vancouver/content
http://reimaginedowntown.com/gordon-price-re-imagines-downtown-vancouver/content 

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/30/james-mollison-playground/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-developers-look-to-luxury-housing-for-seniors/article25311824/ 



http://www.straight.com/blogra/483371/vancouver-public-library-best-library-system-world 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/property-report/place-ville-marie-makes-room-for-the-view/article25316559/

 "The Pope, it turns out, is an urban planner. In a few paragraphs embedded in the middle of his epic environmental encyclical published this week, he managed to tie together affordable housing, mass transit, parking, inequality, architecture, public space and segregation (perhaps no surprising feat given his startling facility in this same document connecting fossil fuels, solar panels, animal rights and recycling). The way we design communities, he argues — and this is basically the central tenet of urban planning — is vital to the kind of lives people experience within them. And so sprawling, car-dependent places force us to spend our lives unhappily idling in traffic. Expensive and overcrowded places rob residents of the dignity of having a good home. Great public spaces, by contrast, bring us together." 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/19/the-popes-wise-advise-on-traffic-parking-and-public-transit/ 



review of new book: 
http://landarchs.com/ecodesign-for-cities-and-suburbs-book-review/


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-08/these-are-the-23-cities-where-millennials-can-t-afford-to-rent-a-home