the Urban Treefrog blog
Filed Under: city living, community, design, food, health, urban critters, vancouver on June 1, 2010
Vancouver’s new Trade and Convention Centre expansion, has a beautiful new green roof. The roof is covered with indigenous grasses, small shrubs [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, environment, event, food, frogs, green Profile, health, life, urban critters, vancouver on May 7, 2010
Our earlier blog post (Vancouver’s first rooftop urban farm) had introduced our readers to what was to have been our city’s first parkade [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, environment, green Profile, health, life, urban critters on May 5, 2010
Article courtesy of the Georgia Straight and DavidSuzuki.org David Suzuki: Using smart growth to combat urban sprawl in Canada By David Suzuki and Fai [...]
Filed Under: city living, design, green Profile on April 27, 2010
We found this interesting Youtube video of an Architect in Hong Kong who has managed to create 24 different “rooms” or experiences in a ti [...]
Filed Under: design, environment, green Profile on October 17, 2009
One of my favourite towns in B.C., and the home of an old TV program, “the Beachcombers” was given the primo liveable city award this week [...]
Filed Under: city living, environment on June 17, 2009
We often hear of the massive urbanization that is, and had been, happening in China. An unprecedented urbanization rate … greater than in any pa [...]
Filed Under: city living, vancouver on May 25, 2009
A study released today by BTAWorks, show clear data that much of Vancouver’s downtown condos are non-family, one bedroom units, owned by investo [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, design, vancouver on May 8, 2009
A perceived threat often galvanizes a community. The thought of placing a 300 foot tower on a culturally significant, city owned piece of land, has un [...]
Filed Under: community, design, environment, vancouver on May 5, 2009
Back in the early 1980’s I worked for the City of Vancouver Planning Department. I was part of a group of staff that explored site specific spot [...]
Filed Under: city living, community, cultural, design, vancouver on April 30, 2009
Round 3 of the city held public “workshops” on the proposed idea of having tall buildings in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown occurs t [...]
Filed Under: city living, cultural, design, vancouver on April 25, 2009
Vancouver’s chinatown was founded a number of years prior to the incorporation of the City of Vancouver. This community originated around the th [...]
Filed Under: design, environment, green Profile on April 24, 2009
One of my old friends, and a much respected colleague, is the environmental designer David Rousseau. David is the principal of Archemy Consulting Ltd. [...]
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