Archive for July, 2009

Laneway Housing in the City of Vancouver: Let’s Make the Most of It

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The City should be congratulated for considering the vast swaths of our single family neighborhoods with an eye to densification through building laneway housing. But as the City of Vancouver establishes its policy on laneway housing, it needs to think more broadly – in particular about what kind of housing the city really needs… »

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The City as Ecosystem?

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Can treating our region as an ecosystem of finite capacity allow new development and retrofit existing building stock without limiting the resources available to future… »

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