The Daily Durning: Sound Familiar?
From The Guardian: . Why the nimbys are winning the UK’s housing battles . Middle England is at war and the enemy is housing. Scores of campaigns against new housing developments have sprung up over...
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From The Chicago Architecture Blog: . NIMBY groups are not to be trifled with in Chicago. Some hold significant political sway and have gotten everything from corner bars to 75-story skyscrapers...
View ArticleThe Daily Durning’s Housing Summary
A compilation from Tom Durning: . Good article on Canada’s housing needs – rabble.ca/why-canada-needs-real-housing-policy This maybe nearer to the truth, though...
View ArticleThe Daily Durning: Can a city stop growth?
I wonder if Vancouverites would like an initiative like this? From CityLab: . Then this from the Wonkblog at the Washington Post: … from an economist’s point of view, there is no such thing as a full...
View ArticleThe Daily Durning: Diane McKenzie in Memoriam
Good for The Globe for running this memory by Noreen Shanahan of one of the most loving and loved women in this city: Ms. MacKenzie’s commitment to the Carnegie Centre was unquenchable. Andrew...
View ArticleThe Daily Durning’s Housing Summary
It can be done. affordable-housing-is-a-moral-choice-and-the-numbers-prove-it Canada is not too different. the-fundamental-contradictions-of-us-housing-policy You might be a NIMBY… love these …...
View ArticleDaily Durning: Lesson from The Big Short
Durning: “I think your younger readers would appreciate this one.” . Watching house prices and the overheating housing market in the UK, it’s difficult not to feel the same wilful refusal to accept the...
View ArticleThe Daily Durning: Reviving the Cable Car
Says Durning: I hope the idea for a gondola up Burnaby Mountain is revived – this time pursued with more vigour. It could also be an urban tourist attraction and perhaps SFU could ‘cash’ in on it....
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