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SSP: A Civil Defense Manual for Cultural Sustainabilty is now in print. It can be ordered from oldcityfoundation@telus.net. The current edition is $33 Can or US, 200 pages in colour, plus $1.98 for GST in Canada only plus $5.00 for surface mail.

Bylaw Text Amendments for Eco Density Execution:
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Missing Housing Types
October 2006 Housing Affordability conference session (VCPC/SFU)

Peak Oil Policy
Dynamic Cities Project (Bryn Davidson) - ways to address the end of cheap energy - (SSP2)
Proposal to the GVRD about addressing impacts of the end of cheap energy
Presentation that accompanied GVRD Proposal

Sustainability Workshops
Curve illustrating how the pattern of community is related to the form of energy used
SSP1 Report on VCPC workshop on dealing with the end of cheap energy
SSP2 Report on VCPC workshop 2006
SSP2 poster: production curves
SSP2 poster: scenario diagrams
SSP2 poster: scenario text
SSP2 slides
SSP2 map appendices
SSP3 Food Security Conference, Nelson, 2007

Narrow Streets & Houses
Images of traditional villages

Tinytown Startup Village Report

City Lands opportunities
MVPC report to council on higher densities on arterials

Revisions to apartment zones
Scheme for the Nanaimo Station test site
How clean fill from RAV excavation could have had far greater public benefits
Airspace towns

Farmland
BC's Food Self-Reliance Report
Presentation about building on mountain slopes not the ALR
Farms, Cities & Sustainability presentation
Suburban to Rural Recovery
Securing the Farm Edge, and Urban Green Fingers

Miscellaneous
The Power of the Arts in Vancouver by Pier Luigi Sacco
Capitalism 3.0, A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons by Peter Barnes

Links
Urban Futures Group
Vancouver Planning Coalition
Art Cowie: Eikos Planning
Charles Dobson: The Citizen's Handbook
Henning Wulff: Architectural Photography

Contact Rick Balfour