Readings

READINGS FALL

Urban Space

Finding Lost Space

A Designed Landcape Space Typology. 

Design Charrettes for Sustainable Cities

Cubist Space

Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities - Full text. 

A Safer More Enjoyable Street for our New Times. 

Sick City - Full text. 

Articles on housing in the Tyee.

1. What did Vancouver just do to the future of coop living?

2. This affordability vote says much about Vancouver Politics. 

3. Will speculators feast thanks to Vancouver's Council 

4. Its Time to Use Zoning to Benefit Those Who Need It Most’

5. Council Is About to Mull a Bold Solution to Vancouver’s Housing Crisis

6. We Could Zone Whole Areas for Rental Only. Why Don’t We?

7. Big questions about Vancouver's big proposal for coop living. 

8. What if new density had to be all affordable? This city did it. 

9. Vancouver's Incentives to get affordable homes built are too rich. 

10. Time for BC and Vancouver to stop glorifying global tech jobs. 

11. A Safer, More Enjoyable Street for Our New Times

12. Titanic Lack of Focus May Sink Vancouver’s Chance to Make Housing Affordable

13. Uh oh. I’m a Planner and Planning Makes Housing More Expensive

14. Vancouver’s Booster Class, Greed and the Real Estate ‘Play of the Century’

15. One Brilliant Example of How to Rezone Vancouver for Affordability

16. How a Smart, Progressive Property Tax Could Ease Our Housing Crisis

17. How Vancouver Can Pay for the Housing We Need

19. In a Housing Crisis, No Love for Lazy Land - Series of 3. 


Andy Yan

Andy Yan, the analyst who exposed Vancouver’s real estate disaster

Close to half of Vancouver condos aren’t occupied by owners

Million dollar line’ of detached homes erased

John Rose

The housing supply myth. 

The Housing Supply Myth. On Methodology: A Response to My Critic

Christopher Alexander

A City is not a Tree

Jane Jacobs

Death and Life of Great American Cities - Chapter 22

Matthew Soules

Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin. Capitalism in the Twenty First Century. 

Michael Von Hausen. 

PUBLIC REALM

THE NEW MAKERS HANDBOOK

Renee Tapp

Introducing the YIMBYs: Renters, housing, and supply-side politics in Los Angeles

Frederick Guy

Who wants to be a world city. 

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Michael Storper

Housing , urban growth, and inequality. 

Nico Calavita, Marian Wolfe, PhD.

Benefit Zoning. 

Letter on resources required to electrify the British auto fleet

READINGS SPRING

Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities. 

Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities

• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5 (not complete yet)
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7

Surrey class of 2015

•  Fall
• Spring

Surrey class of 2016

• Fall
• Spring

Surrey class of 2017


Calthorpe 1

Calthorpe II

Fraker

Kelbaugh