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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
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
Canadian Institute of Planners Conference, Winnipeg, 2008
General SSP Introduction
Micro to Macro scale SSP5 planning
Intro to slide set use
Intro to SSP5 slide sets
Slide set A: Urban triage, farmland edge protection, multifamily access to farmland
Slide set B: Post oIl provincial policy for BC
Slide set C: Federal level global impacts and policy revolution
High Tides: Images of the impact of massive ice sheet melting
Access to land slides: social extremes created by climate change, and peak oil
Mid-Canada Corridor Report, 1969
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
