Sunday, May 31, 2015

Nanaimo Downtown Urban Plan and
Design Guidelines: Parks and open spaces

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HT @nlamontagne —
Quebec City, Saskatoon looking good —
New protected bike lanes, public plaza

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Canadian Institute of Planners —
5th annual Great Places in Canada contest

2013 Great Public Space winner - Saint John NB City Market CNW Group/Canadian Institute of Planners
2015 edition of Great Places in Canada and all features on the greatplacesincanada.ca website have now been activated! Nominations from people across the country will be posted online as they compete for the title of Great Street, Great Neighbourhood and Great Public Space for 2015. The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), created this contest to engage Canadians in sharing their favourite places and to recognize the work accomplished by Professional Planners to make these places possible. Read ore: Canadian Institute of Planners | Great Places in Canada 2015 Kicks Off Today!
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

E&N Trail Downtown South
Alignment Study Open House June 3

E&N Trail - Downtown South | City of Nanaimo

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

From The Atlantic —
The Battle for Downtown
From Canada to the Carolinas

Fresno, California, is determined to revive its struggling downtown by re-opening a fabled pedestrian-only mall to car traffic. This has become the focus of intense debate pro and con. For the most recent pro, see this. For an extended con, go here. Now readers weigh in about experiences from other North American cities. 
Read more: The Battle for Downtown, From Canada to the Carolinas - The Atlantic

Sunday, May 24, 2015

From Georgia Straight —
Vancouver public art gets
an international shout-out

Several of Vancouver's outdoor sculptures have made it into a feature at the Guardian on the best and worst public art from around the world. And don't worry—a few of our pieces are being tagged, in this readers' poll, as the best, along with showstopping pieces from Amsterdam to Prague. All of the local mentions originated with the Vancouver Biennale. Amid the ones named: Human Structures, by Jonathan Borofsky, with a reader noting the interlocking, multicoloured figures suggest "diversity and connectivity". It sits along the south False Creek bike path near Olympic Village. Read more: Vancouver public art gets an international shout-out | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News

Via @cnunextgen Dr Evil on bike lanes...

Via @cnunextgen Dr Evil on bike lanes...

Posted by The Sidewalk Ballet on Sunday, May 24, 2015
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Nanaimo’s first bicycle club, 1891

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

How much does your commute
cost (or save) society?

Monday, May 18, 2015

Saturday, May 16, 2015

What drives design in your community?

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

City of Nanaimo MOU with Seaspan,
Island Corridor Foundation


RT @cityofnanaimo City, Seaspan and Southern Rail enter into MOU http://cnan.ca/1Qr8Xf8
Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Thursday, May 7, 2015


Memorandum of Understanding pdf here.
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Wondering what makes for great people places? The Power of 10+ explained

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Monday, May 11, 2015

PWL Partnership, landscape architects —
Coal Harbour, South East False Creek


—@pwlpartnership is the landscape architecture firm working with both Insight Holdings and the #Nanaimo Parks Recreation...
Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Monday, May 11, 2015
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Friday, May 8, 2015

Greater Nanaimo Cycling Coalition
Letter to Mayor and Council

Dear Mayor McKay and City Councillors,
Last September when you took part in the Veloworks Conference in Vancouver, we spoke at length about transportation and the need for a change in Nanaimo with the Nanaimo Transportation Master Plan that was adopted a few months earlier in hand. Since then it has been very, very quiet on the vision and plans for transportation in Nanaimo except on the transportation of water over, under or through the dams. Also very important.
Around the time of the municipal elections, the BC government announced its ideas on transportation with the B.C. Master Transportation plan and we were so lucky to be allowed to comment on the plan and make suggestions. On that front we, the Greater Nanaimo Cycling Coalition and the BC Cycling Coalition, have some good news to report!

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

How landscape architecture is changing the face of the city. @globeandmail

How landscape architecture is changing the face of the city. @globeandmail

Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

PWL Partnership Landscape Architects retained by both proponent and ‪Nanaimo‬ Parks to work on Georgia Park redesign

Vancouver @pwlpartnership Landscape Architects retained by both proponent and #Nanaimo Parks to work on Georgia Park redesign. http://www.pwlpartnership.com/our-portfolio/parks-plazas

Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

From Project for Public Spaces — Reimagining Our Streets as Places:
From Transit Routes to Community Roots

In a city the street must be supreme. It is the first institution of the city. The street is a room by agreement, a community room, the walls of which belong to the donors, dedicated to the city for common use. Its ceiling is the sky. Today, streets are disinterested movements not at all belonging to the houses that front them. So you have no streets. You have roads, but you have no streets.– Louis Kahn, The Street. Read more: Project for Public Spaces | Reimagining Our Streets as Places: From Transit Routes to Community Roots
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From @Park_People — Making Connections: Planning parks & open space networks
in urban neighbourhoods

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