Open source city: the future of Vancouver’s urban landscape
When we talk about urban landscape, we usually think about grand 19th-century interventions like Frederick Law Olmsted’s Central Park or Haussmann’s epic re-engineering of the avenues and...
View ArticleGrand Theft Auto, Vancouver riots, and the deficit of the real
J.G. Ballard would have loved Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot. In fact he consistently imagined situations like this (and worse) in his dystopian novels and short fiction. In his novella Running...read more
View ArticleDiscovering Portland's organic architecture
Straw-thatched walls, solar hot water...welcome to the Tolkienesque world of Portland's Planet Repair Institute.read more
View ArticleCottonwood Community Gardens: oasis in peril
Sometimes a bad idea just won’t go away. Though Vancouver’s future has been looking a lot greener lately, with the expansion of bike lanes and improved municipal composting, I was dismayed to...
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