Saturday, October 10, 2015

@APEGBC Victoria Branch Seminar —
"Waterfronts and Livable Cities"
with @BrentToderian


Friday, October 9, 2015

"...a textbook example of how to create a centre and sense of place, a task many Cdn towns, cities trying to confront"

ALEX BOZIKOVIC For decades, the main spot to find your neighbours in Newmarket was at the mall. This town of about 86,000, just 50 kilometres from Toronto, saw the same pattern of car-oriented growth that gutted many of Canada’s Victorian streetscapes. Upper Canada Mall, which opened in 1974, prospered; the dense, handsome Main Street, which dates back to the 1850s, was full of vacant stores. Now, the town’s leadership sees a need for change, trying to create public spaces where citizens – both millennial parents and youthful retired boomers – will want to hang out together. Read more: Urban park signals renewal in Newmarket
Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Pedestrian friendly street redesigns in Halifax



Thursday, October 1, 2015

From Waterfront Toronto — Plans for protecting and revitalizing the Port Lands



Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Nanaimo needs a public market!


With two big cruise ships in port - so many visitors to the @sjcitymarket today from all over the world!
Posted by Nanaimo Commons on Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Monday, September 28, 2015

From The Globe and Mail —
Rotterdam transformation
"a place of non-stop design and innovation"


Temples of gastronomy are not something you necessarily expect in Holland. In general, the country’s food rep leans to the stodgy and the tuberous. But the quirky idea of building a food market shaped like an inverted U that incorporates apartments in its arch – residents’ windows peeking out of a giant raspberry or avocado in the hallucinatory ceiling mural – is thoroughly Dutch, a typical mix of playfulness and practicality. Read more: Rotterdam: Holland's infamous port city may be the hippest place in the country - The Globe and Mail