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#Cities
⚪The economy of cities
⚪The short block street grid
⚪3mph urban design...

#architecture #urbandesign #books #LFC https://nanaimocommons.blogspot.com/

"Three cheers for the dogged persistence and mysterious vitality of diversity.” #JaneJacobs
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The front page.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Notes from Defining Neighbourhoods. University of Chicago Professor of Urbanism, Emily Talen. @planetizen.bsky.social

frank-k-murphy.medium.com/defining-nei...
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Caixa Forum.
Paseo del Prado, Madrid. Architects Herzog & de Meuron.
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood. Circa 1900.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fantastic Cities. A colouring book of amazing places real and imagined. Steve McDonald, 2015. @chroniclebooks.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Roz Chast.
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
October 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#SketchUp rendering based on the Royal Hotel, Picton ON. Niagara Peninsula wine country. An elegant adaptive reuse of an exquisite old-economy building. Architects Giannone Petricone.
October 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
City of Vancouver, Downtown South Residential. #UrbanDesign #streetscape #SketchUp
September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My street (reimagined). #SketchUp
September 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Life is too short to waste any of it reading bad books.
August 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Notes from a 2021 @planetizen.bsky.social course, Defining Neighbourhoods, University of Chicago Professor of Urbanism, Emily Talen.

frank-k-murphy.medium.com/defining-nei...
August 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
August 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Traffic-calming, placemaking, neighbourhood-connecting, local-commerce-supporting, investment-attracting, safe-and-pedestrian-friendly urban crossroads. #Sketchup
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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LANDON MACKENZIE’S LOST RIVER SERIES NO.12

From today's @theglobeandmail.com.

Ms Mackenzie, professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, is known for large-format immersive paintings.

From the @agotoronto.bsky.social's vast collection of Canadian art.
July 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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