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"Blue Bridge blues," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine June 2009)
This article (published in the June 2009 issue of Victoria BC's FOCUS Magazine) argues that city council should reconsider its decision to move destroy the 1924 Joseph-Strauss-built bascule bridge known as The Johnson Street Bridge or The Blue Bridge. The bridge is an icon of the city and should be kept as a heritage structure.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:2,652Uploaded:06 / 10 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"Embracing complexity and density [in Victoria BC]," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine May 2009)
[Note the correction provided by the author (see below).] Based on a closer look at Victoria, BC, this article argues that cities need density and that urban density is a bonus that relates directly to making urban places "green" or ecologically resilient. The author writes that urban metabolic growth increases the opportunity for innovation and more efficient use of resources. The article was published with an error by Focus Magazine, which deleted the beginning twelve words. The author penciled them in by hand on this copy.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:1,106Uploaded:06 / 10 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"It's the people, stupid," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine April 2009)
Inspired by Seattle-based community organizer Jim Diers' presentation in Victoria BC early in 2009, this article makes the case that urban density is good for cities: it's good for their economies and for our social ecologies.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:3,224Uploaded:04 / 22 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"Victoria's Urban Forest," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine March 2009)
Urban forests are more than just trees in cities: they are the complete ecosystem, including the trees and understory shrubbery and plants, soil conditions, water drainage, and wildlife. Victoria has urban forests in its core neighborhoods, but needs to do more to enrich ecosystems within downtown.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:1,345Uploaded:03 / 21 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"Housing 2.0," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine February 2009)
Using the Wikipedia model, along with modular housing, to solve homelessness: As web 2.0 development has shown, people are able to unleash creativity and energy when they see how to move forward and get things done from the bottom up.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:1,211Uploaded:03 / 21 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"Building bridges and start-up muscle in Victoria," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine January 2009)
Technology, the arts, and the built environment all have crucial roles to play in connecting the people and ideas that create a vibrant, thriving city. Inspired by Ben Casnocha's review of Boulder, CO, this article look at how Victoria, British Columbia could work toward growing its "start-up" muscle.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:1,422Uploaded:01 / 26 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"Ditch height restrictions; adopt 'good design' prescriptions," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine Feb. 2008)
A survey of downtown's landscape shows that restrictive zoning is bad for our savannah brains. The article looks up, at skylines, specifically Victoria's, and applies the lessons of evolutionary psychology to our built environment.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:1,021Uploaded:12 / 11 / 2008ShareAdd to collection"The death of a good idea," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine Jan. 2008)
This article follows up on the plans initially proposed by Vancouver developer Westbank Corporation to partner with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) to provide a stand-alone downtown satellite art gallery as part of a condominium project on Victoria's Belleville Street. The proposal was killed; this is a post-mortem.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:949Uploaded:12 / 11 / 2008ShareAdd to collection"Not just another brick in the wall," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine Dec. 2007)
An article about Victoria's first "greenwall" or "living wall," for Gateway Green, an office building proposed for the corner of Fisgard and Blanshard Streets. It argues that living walls can re-connect art and architecture in a more amenable way than does the strategy of tacking a lone sculpture on a handkerchief-sized "plaza" next to a building.
Category:(not categorized)Reads:1,056Uploaded:12 / 11 / 2008ShareAdd to collection"Victoria's genius locus: perspectives from the water," by Yule Heibel (Focus Magazine Nov. 2007)
This article follows up on October 2007's "The Belleville Plan: it's all wrong" with a question: "If the Belleville Street task force got it wrong, what's needed to make it right?"
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