As a resort community, Revelstoke sees a lot of tourist traffic in the downtown, both pedestrians and vehicles. Additionally, as…
Public works is always there. Rain, hail, snow or shine, public works crews are dedicated to the job. They keep…
Earilier this month I had the pleasure of being invited to the FCM Sustainable Communities Conference in London, Ontario. Working with…
The urban experience is helped or hindered by elements that are ulitmately the responsibility of Civil Engineers. Despite this obvious statement, many of the urban form frustrations we experience day to day in our travels about our neighbourhoods or cities were decisions made by engineers or those in municipal or utility organizations that act under the authority of engineers
With the failure of the suburban experiment, rising house prices and a greater desire to be in the downtown, designers…
The planners out there might get upset to know that an engineer has crashed their party, then again, who knows, maybe they’ll…
The video on the front page of ShapeVancouver.com suggests that by increasing the City’s density there would be significant environmental benefits. However, a recent article on Planetizen from Dr. Tony Recsei suggests that these claimed facts may not have empirical support…
The big push from the government, builders, banks and just about everyone else who has been part of the consumer driven craze for more stuff has built their pitch to the citizenry based on a desire for home ownership, particularly ownership in the suburbs.