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Parking lot ➡️ 70-unit midrise in Ottawa, Canada

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

I'd like to share a long but fascinating thread about the 1775 invasion by American Revolutionaries into what's now Canada. These are excerpts from a text by an ex-colleague, former Gazette reporter David Johnston, now a volunteer guide at Montreal's Chateau Ramezay museum.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

100% this - density off the main streets instead of on it, just like what has proven to work in Vancouver's beloved west end

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Spokane Port Townsend Bellingham Bremerton www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/06/b...

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I haven't seen a freehold condo in Vancouver (outside the DTES) sell below $400K in a long time. Seller accepted an offer $54K below asking (-12.6%) to offload this Mount Pleasant loft unit. #VanRE

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Imagine a world where our planners allow denser housing on the quiet side streets, and not just noisy polluted arterials.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

One of the best things about having @beheshtialex on the team is that he thinks of wonky stuff the rest of us don't. Here's one example that I love, illustrating why Canada desperately needs a Zoning Atlas to solve the housing crisis. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Civil engineering—a pseudoscience—turned every American street into a dangerous, high-speed freeway, producing a public realm in which children take one wrong step and die, and then want to blame parents for their dead children. Hell of a grift. reason.com/2025/06/04/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Here are the estimated distributions of owner-occupied housing prices in 2019 (blue) and 2023 (green), by province, as reported by respondents to Statistics Canada's Survey of Financial Security. #cdnecon

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Today FCM presented a report to Metro Vancouver on total replacement cost for all (Canada wide) municipally owned "core infrastructure". Take from this what you will, but what jumps out to me is how much roads cost. They account for 33% of all municipal infra.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Portage and Main starting to look like a normal place in a normal city.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Several of California’s biggest — and most expensive — cities are preparing to legalize single-stair buildings in advance of statewide reform. You love to see it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

In October of 2023, Edmonton amended it's zoning to allow up to 8-units on most lots. After permitting only 1,000 new units in 2023, the City saw nearly 2,400 new units in 2024, with nearly 2,000 of those units coming in the form of townhomes, duplexes or ADUs. 📍Edmonton 🇨🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

1 bus lane (Lincoln Tunnel) moves 5x as many people per hour as 5 car lanes combined (Lincoln + Holland Tunnels) github.com/hudcostreets...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an interesting article on the ins and outs, benefits and challenges of building an electric processing plant for a new gold mine that just opened in BC. Progress on electrification of the economy continues (slowly) ... magazine.cim.org/en/projects/...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Your regular reminder that the City of Vancouver is unwilling to actually zone for duplexes zones specifically intended for duplexes, RT-10 in this case. This "duplex zone" allows SFH outright, but duplexes are only allowed conditional on planner whims and the kangaroo court of public opinion.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday was a gorgeous day, but it was also very busy for bikes. There's network of 30+ counters in region and a bunch of them recorded some big numbers. All the data that follows is from here: data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic/?... Analysis work is mine, including a custom script to create web page

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

AFTER | BEFORE 🧵 After 4 years, we managed to close the street in front of our kids’ school to cars. Here’s what it looks like today:

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Man, I read this and then searched for the same late June weekend in Manhattan and Vancouver, and wtf, Vancouver hotel prices are insanely high. Times Square Mariott $1200 (CAD)/3 nights, Hilton Manhattan $1,450, YVR Downtown Mariotts range from $1,900-$2,000, YVR Airport Mariott $1,700, etc.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes my impression is that "normies" believe that our out of control construction costs are the result of some gross malpractice or, worse, blatant stealing by a few bad actors, so we can just get rid of those and, bam!, we get cheaper infrastructure! Unfortunately, that's not how it works.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments