Our Community Bikes is a great concept. Conveniently located a quick 10 minute walk away from where I live between Fairview and Mount Pleasant here in Vancouver, it is essentially one-part bike parts recycler and seller, one-part bike tool sharing workshop, and one part roving bike maintenance skills class. Their model is essentially that they [...]
by Karen Quinn Fung
|
posted in City, Soup to Nuts, Featured, Ideas, Technology
| tagged as james howard kunstler, northern voice, nv10, planningpool, the thunderbird, urban planning, vancouver public space network
At this year’s Northern Voice, I was grateful to have been given the chance to moderate a panel, titled, “From Tweets to Plans: Online Conversations for Urban Planning.” I’d gotten the idea to do it from being invited to the SCARP Symposium by PlanningPool, where I found myself talking about blogging to urban planners, and [...]
Pete Quily directed me to a recent story in the Georgia Straight about West Vancouver’s opening up of Council Correspondence (this is their correspondence page for 2010) on their website. Charlie Smith, the author of the article, calls for all Metro Vancouver municipalities to follow suit, in making their interactions with everyone open and available.
There [...]
…and 48 hours later, Northern Voice for 2010 is a wrap. Thanks to the hard work of all the organizers, who pulled off an incredible conference once again. This was my first year as a non-Moosecamp speaker. It was also the it was held not during reading week (owing to the Vancouver Olympics) and in [...]
Northern Voice is just about upon us! As usual, the schedule is absolutely packed with unbelievable sessions…too many to choose from, even!
I’m also interested to see how the dynamic changes as a result of there being no MooseCamp day and the fact that the Atrium will be programmed with the Social Media Buffet. It’s a [...]
Reading Raul’s post over at Hummingbird604, I thought I’d take a quick moment to write in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week, happening May 3rd to 7th.
It’s interesting that once we become aware of and acknowledge this aspect of our experience, we see the effects and impacts of mental health everywhere. [...]
On May 7th, I’ll be moderating a panel bridging two worlds of practice that I think are going to be increasingly interested in each other: urban planning and online publishing.
Those of you who’ve read through my posts for the last few months can tell, I think about what it means to be a planner a lot. I’m afforded the luxury of spending time on this, as a student, and I’m going to start keeping track of this stuff as I read it, because there [...]
Friend Rob Cottingham drew an interesting webcomic recently.
His witty and observant comic is syndicated on ReadWriteWeb, a techhnology-focused blog. The comic touches on a phenomenon I’ve observed in my own life that I’ve had a chance to do a little bit of scholarly work on; namely, how well mobile technologies go with transit. I first [...]
