Is Housing the New Sustainability?
Sustainability is widely understood to have 3 pillars – environmental, social and economic. The ‘environmental’ pillar has received the most attention over the past 25 years but a new …
The Irreverent Planning Glossary
A group of us faculty at the Planning Program at Vancouver Island University have started a small project to put names to some of the dysfunctional things we see in …
Craft breweries are transforming cities
Richard Florida famously said that cities in the 21st century will rise or fall largely based on how they can attract the Cultural Creatives. It is more complex than that …
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Cities versus nations: options for responding to current political and economic trends
The discussion over the city as a unit of politics and economics in a context of nation states is longstanding. This difference however has been dramatically highlighted in 2016 with …