"There's always going to be debate in city planning. Always. But there's good faith debate, based on disagreements, and then there's deliberate lies and misinformation." — @brenttoderian.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
doing some journalism
reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody
The result of Canada's federal election was clear that the people want to build
an unfortunate part of being morally opposed to using a website owned by someone who says “Canada is not a real country” is a lot of B.C.’s core public institutions still exclusively use that website to give incremental updates on news
City of Vancouver council meetings, TransLink, BC Ferries, etc.
As a neuroscientist who studies urban stress, loud cars/motorcycles should be banned, or fined excessively until drivers reassess their need to broadcast their self esteem with unnecessary noise pollution. I don’t need to hear your car in my apartment.
Can someone please come build something like this on Vancouver Island?
Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
White text on black: I love walkable neighbourhoods because I don’t wanna go far for stuff. No big conspiracy, I’m just lazy.
“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
Canada didn’t want this fight.
Canada didn’t start this fight.
This fight makes absolute zero rational sense, between any two trading partners, let alone close friends and allies.
Canada did everything we could to avoid this fight.
But Canada doesn’t back down from a fight.
#NotSorry #Tariffs
someone is asking how townhouse development could be worse than Metro Vancouver (which I think is actually pretty good all things consider). I give you suburban Toronto townhouses . . .
the number of units lost in the fire is likely equivalent to like an entire year's housing production in the city of Los Angeles, almost all at the very high end of the market
🏗️ It’s time again to catch up with the number of cranes on our skyline. As of January 1, 2025, there were 279 cranes atop buildings across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area according to UTPro. urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/01...
#Toronto #construction #development #architecture #UTPro
I find this SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING than what’s going on inside any stadium no matter who the artist is. The planned or spontaneous expansion of what’s happening inside into “the outside,” the ubiquitous civic life of a whole city. This weekend in #Vancouver has been amazing. #TaylorSwift #ErasTour
Rampell: If you voted for Trump because you thought he was going to bring down the cost of housing, a lot of our lumber, cement, and other materials comes from Canada, which means that construction costs are going to go up
Housing costs go brrrr
Vancouver’s public consultation process is being abused, critics say: Unlike most municipalities, Vancouver does not require residency to weigh in at a public hearing, which critics say leaves the door open to abuses, such as online robot responses, or people who are paid to show support
"You'll never be unhoused in America—if you're a car."
There are a quarter of a billion cars in the U.S.—and 2 billion parking spaces.
The nation now builds more 3-car garages than 1-bedroom apartments.
🅿️🧵
Housing 1950's to 2022-
The changes to funding in Social/Affordable housing over the past 70 yrs in Canada, that led to the current shortage of affordable housing.This started long before our current PM - Poilievre fails to tell the truth when he is out bashing the govt. /1 (thread) 38 posts #Canada
-encourages community that isn’t necessarily dependent on family (go out with your pals!) but can easily include family: ✅
-sharing food with neighbors and strangers: ✅
-creativity abounds in decor and costumes: ✅
-mostly secular but still has neat historical ties: ✅
-skeletons: ✅
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #4,896,457, George Robinson @grobinson.bsky.social, joined on Feb 19, 2024"
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #4,896,457!
Canadian version, calibrated to Canadian headship rates of 1981, the time when household formation peaked across Canada. Story is the same, housing outcomes improved prior and deteriorated after, with Montreal and Quebec continuing to translate rising incomes into increased household formation.
