Josh White
🍁 General Manager Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability and Director of Planning at City of Vancouver 🍁
- It seems increasingly evident that algorithmically driven social media and online content, particularly which drives our brains to keep scrolling and scrolling, is both as addictive and as unhealthy and corrosive as smoking. www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/t...
- Incredibly cleared eyed middle power doctrine.
- The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
- Vancouver today
- Vancouver City Council unanimously approved implementation steps on the Rupert + Renfrew Area Plan, including a significant City-Initiated rezoning in the low rise apartment zones of the plan comprising 2580 parcels… dailyhive.com/vancouver/ru...
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- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Housing Policy and Regulatory shifts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: dailyhive.com/vancouver/do...
- Going to be in Australia soon for a couple weeks. Looking for some tips from the (planner-type) community on some neighbourhoods or maybe interesting developments to make sure not to miss while in Melbourne and Sydney. Things to learn from.
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- Maybe the funniest movie ever made - This is Spinal Tap. RIP Rob Reiner.
- A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments
- It was also a close collaboration with design, architecture and building community and others. Folks like @lanefab.com were instrumental! /2
- Today, the City of Vancouver took assertive steps toward addressing the cost challenges confronting building housing. Prices and rents have levelled and begun to decline, which is great news for affordability, however costs to deliver remain stubbornly high.... vancouver.ca/news-calenda...
- I spoke to Dan Fumano about proposed actions to address costs affecting development viability to help unlock new housing supply. Prices and rents are dropping, which is good, but costs need commensurately go down if we are to keep building housing. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
- Lest we forget
- Into classical music? My brother’s concert - bass quartet at Jericho Arts Centre Dec 3! www.bassmas.ca
- Very happy for that plucky underdog the LA Dodgers.
