May 17, 2012
Low-rises in Vancouver’s S. False Creek
Quebec City, successful lo-rise/high density combination
This short essay by Richard Florida in Atlantic Cities magazine has been making the rounds.
May 14, 2012
Heard those lyrics over the car radio last week. I did not know that the Emerald City was close enough to hell that you could actually see it from there, but that whole geography sounds a lot like Vancouver.
October 12, 2011
Vancouver towers from Wikimedia Commons
[Update: see post on this topic on the Vancouver Lights blog. Also see this critique of glass highrises by Lisa Rochon in the Globe and Mail.]
Apologies that this is such a long post.
January 26, 2009
This is the odd fog inversion Vancouver has been under for most of January. Anyone living close to the harbour is now seriously over the supposed charm of the foghorns, which blew approximately every forty seconds all night long, every night for weeks.
