I’m currently staying at an Airbnb-type apartment in the Mission district in San Francisco, ground zero (as I’ve discovered since I booked it) of current North American angst over the transformation of former working-class neighbourhoods into tourist parks. In June, I stayed in an Airbnb in Marais, another hot district, where one disgruntled resident had […]
Entries from January 2016
The sharing-the-pain economy: The Uber and Airbnb ground war in cities
August 12th, 2015 · 68 Comments
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Vancouver looking for a new chief planner again after only three years
August 3rd, 2015 · 25 Comments
This is a week old but I was in an internet challenged zone after I filed my story, so here it is: The Brian Jackson retirement/resignation, which I know many in this group will have thoughts on, especially about his remarks that ex-city staff were extraordinarily interventionist as they lobbied against various decisions of his […]
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