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Part II: Smart cities focus on attracting and retaining brainpower

26 Sep 2011

Vancouver's convention centre should play a key role in its smart city strategyIn part one of our "Smart City" series, we discussed how it's becoming rather common for cities to pursue a "green" agenda. We also raised the issue of...

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Price says SFU gondola idea should be seriously considered

14 Jun 2011

A proposed gondola from the SkyTrain to SFU is being discussedMy office at SFU’s downtown campus is a hundred steps from SkyTrain (I’ve counted).In less than an hour, I can be at the Production Way/University Millennium Line station for a...

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Creating green jobs in Vancouver should be more than a branding exercise

4 Nov 2010

Could run-of-river projects fuel thousands of green collar jobs in Vancouver one day? Jimmy Pattison recently announced that he wanted to build a couple of 40+ storey office buildings in Vancouver’s downtown core. The announcement must have been music to...

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Humanity lacks the capacity to prevent climate change: Jaccard

4 Jul 2010

Professor Mark Jaccard speaking at a recent Global Civic salon "We humans are quite clever at deluding ourselves into believing that we're reducing reducing greenhouse gas emissions, when in fact we're doing very little." That tough statement begins a...

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Another short post about the Prince

13 Nov 2009

Probably not buying fruit – Prince Charles visits a marketplace Another quick follow up to the post made here about last Saturday's forum titled The Business Case for Sustainable Urbanism, which drew out our city's leadership in sustainable city-making,...

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Prince Charles draws the sustainability crowd to SFU

11 Nov 2009

The "experimental" town of Poundbury in the UK, a European example of new urbanismIt's been a busy week around CityCaucus Tower, so this is my first opportunity to share my reflections on last weekend's event at the SFU Centre for...

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How independent are "independent" commentators?

9 Sep 2009

McArthur to Meggs & Louie: "this is not what I ever imagined we might do" Doug McArthur As part of the ongoing series of posts here at CityCaucus.com that challenge our assumptions about media bias, we draw your attention...

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