Our downtown public realm is in disrepair, its decline the result of recent years of neglect by our City Hall. A budget surplus of $20m + financial assets of $110m is not fiscally conservative, it’s leadership failure to invest. Leadership w/out vision, pride of place, ambition. #ycd #EconomyOfCities
B.C. municipalities had a combined $3.1-billion surplus last year. Why the caution? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-municipalities-surpluses-history-1.6699074
Posts here are by me, Frank Murphy. I’m on Vancouver Island, in Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia, in a medium-sized (100k) city, #Nanaimo, on the land of #Snuneymuxw, a Coast Salish First Nation. #ycd
#urbandesign #janejacobs #economyofcities #urbanpublicspace #walkablecity 🇺🇦
#introduction #nanaimo #snuneymuxw #ycd #UrbanDesign #janejacobs #economyofcities #urbanpublicspace #walkablecity
If I started a Vancouver Island instance, would anyone join it?
#vancouverisland #vanisland #victoria #yyc #ycd #nanaimo #parksville #duncanbc #comox #courtenay #portalberni
#VancouverIsland #vanisland #victoria #yyc #ycd #Nanaimo #parksville #duncanbc #comox #courtenay #portalberni