Shangri-La Hotels

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=9642 ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_Hotel_(Dubai) 200m

United Arab Emirates, Dubai...

http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/country/united-arab-emirates

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=12

http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/dubai ,
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=23&status=15 ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Dubai#Tallest_building ,

http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/entisar-tower/15289

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Dubai#Tallest_under_construction,_approved_and_proposed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Dubai#Timeline_of_tallest_buildings

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1895543&page=145


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Abu_Dhabi#Tallest_buildings

http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/abu-dhabi

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=560&status=15

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=47189 3
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/project-images/2014/24211/arquitectonica/gate-towers-in-abu-dhabi.html?img=1

Spire		604 ft
	Roof		489 ft

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=3245 ,
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?buildingID=3245

Built
Built	1979
Floors	39
Use	Office
Antenna
Spire	184 m
Roof	149 m

national-bank-of-kuwait-skyscraper

https://www.e-architect.co.uk/kuwait/national-bank-of-kuwait-skyscraper ,
https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=786&status=15 ,
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/nbk-tower/13070 ,

https://www.google.ca/search?q=national+bank+of+kuwait+fire&rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA792CA794&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO4J_UxtzdAhWtFzQIHdICCZcQ_AUIECgD&biw=1604&bih=772

https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA792CA794&ei=cYStW-qNOdPa9APv4ZqYAg&q=national+bank+of+kuwait+fire&oq=national+bank+of+kuwait+fire&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1027.2801.0.3831.5.5.0.0.0.0.192.534.0j4.4.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.3.423...0j0i67k1j0i22i30k1.0.S4ES3J7KfC4

https://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enCA792CA794&biw=1604&bih=772&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=JIWtW83dMOKs0PEPi8eMgAc&q=national+bank+of+kuwait+tower&oq=national+bank+of+kuwait+to&gs_l=img.1.0.0.83959.86799.0.89178.6.6.0.0.0.0.162.835.0j6.6.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.5.698...0i24k1j0i8i30k1j0i30k1j0i5i30k1.0.9Mssod8Lj98

Toronto-election

https://nowtoronto.com/news/doug-ford-toronto-election/

dvp

https://twitter.com/JenniferB_ctv/status/339710076086525952

q

v, bc

https://twitter.com/SuzyPatrick/status/1044050949050793984/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3Avancouvermrkt&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vancouvermarket.ca%2F

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?cityID=1&statusID=2

MT & Burnaby

https://twitter.com/sophielui/status/490605380540444673

richmond-centre-redevelopment-will-include-2000-units-130000-sf-of-new-retail-space

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2018/09/17/richmond-centre-redevelopment-will-include-2000-units-130000-sf-of-new-retail-space/

VC 1 and 2

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/753-Seymour_1.jpg ,
http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/2013/09/12/great-west-life-proposing-32-storey-office-tower-on-seymour

http://www.vancouvermarket.ca/tag/vancouver-centre

End to End - Eglinton Crosstown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOzREd4BZI

early SkyTrain project film from 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsSXdSjU1I

1966-driving-in-vancouver vs 2017

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2017/11/02/1960s-driving-in-vancouver


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgcd54wGP4w 2017

NW

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/07/30/once-a-local-prison-now-a-preschool-and-pub/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9nlBa-4SIU

the-hidden-last-vestige-of-old-mount-pleasant

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2018/08/27/the-hidden-last-vestige-of-old-mount-pleasant/

china creek

https://miss604.com/2011/03/vancouver-history-china-creek.html

http://scoutmagazine.ca/2012/02/10/you-should-know-about-the-history-of-east-vancouvers-china-creek-skate-park/


https://www.straight.com/blogra/digitized-maps-reveal-vancouvers-lost-streams

Where is the world's most remote city?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/19/where-worlds-most-remote-city

Anchorage,_Alaska is the largest northern US city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska#Geography

Edmonton is the largest northern Canadian city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton#Geography

vancouver-making-room-duplexes-housing-policy

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-making-room-duplexes-housing-policy-2018

urban-rdg-developments-white-rock-soleil

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/urban-rdg-developments-white-rock-soleil

surrey-lrt-economic-impact

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/opinion-surrey-lrt-economic-impact-part-1

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/opinion-surrey-lrt-economic-impact-part-2


https://coolconversion.com/area/343-square+mile-to-km%5E2

vancouver-house-penthouse-1480-howe-street

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-house-penthouse-1480-howe-street

gilmore-station-burnaby-tower-design

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/gilmore-station-burnaby-2018-design

1445-1455-west-georgia-street-vancouver-hold-postponed

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1445-1455-west-georgia-street-vancouver-hold-postponed-july-2018

1468-alberni-street-vancouver-towers-renderings

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1468-alberni-street-vancouver-towers-renderings

777-pacific-boulevard-vancouver-bc-place-tower-pavco-approved

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/777-pacific-boulevard-vancouver-bc-place-tower-pavco-approved-july-2018

List_of_largest_hotels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hotels

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-study-subway-barriers-2018

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-study-subway-barriers-2018

http://dailyhive.com/toronto/ttc-numbers-world-suicide-prevention-day-2018

japan vs ch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxFSFWZmtZs

detached-house-vancouver-income-report

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/detached-house-vancouver-income-report

ubc-gage-towers-new-student-residence-expansion

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-gage-towers-new-student-residence-expansion

st-pauls-hospital-false-creek-flats-proposal

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/st-pauls-hospital-false-creek-flats-proposal-september-2018

surrey-lrt-stephan-mehr-translink

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-lrt-stephan-mehr-translink

millennium-line-broadway-extension-elevated-skytrain vs tunnel

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/millennium-line-broadway-extension-elevated-skytrain

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/ubc-broadway-subway-funding-campus

Philadelphia comcast-innovation-and-technology-center-now-completely-approved-by-city

https://philadelphiaheights.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/comcast-innovation-and-technology-center-now-completely-approved-by-city-agencies-will-be-a-historic-and-dramatic-development-for-philadelphia/

Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company: The Underground Pedestrian Concourses

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/51894

https://www.phillyvoice.com/septa-set-embark-center-city-concourse-renovations/

george-massey-bridge-tunnel-replacement-metro-vancouver

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/george-massey-bridge-tunnel-replacement-metro-vancouver

canadas-most-livable-city-is-not-vancouver-its-calgary

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/canadas-most-livable-city-is-not-vancouver-its-calgary-the-conversation/111830/

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/sfu-new-student-union-building-breaks-ground.html

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/sfu-new-student-union-building-breaks-ground.html

10-cities-for-urban-exploration

https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/urban-sports/10-cities-for-urban-exploration.htm

transportation-reports-and-reference/reports-studies/vancouver-island

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/transportation-reports-and-reference/reports-studies/vancouver-island/fixed-link

real-estate

https://www.richmond-news.com/real-estate/do-you-own-the-air-above-your-home-free-seminar-to-explain-all-1.23421588

https://www.richmond-news.com/real-estate/b-c-realtors-still-not-allowed-to-openly-publish-home-sale-prices-1.23417786

climate-change...

Canadians need to brace themselves for an influx of eco-migrants over the next century, Feltmate warned — people who are fleeing their homelands because they are simply too hot.

Environment Canada modelling suggests the average summer temperature across Ontario between 2041 and 2070 will be 3.5 C higher than it was between 1981 and 2010. The city of Toronto has modelling from 2011 that showed between 2000 and 2010 there were on average 20 days over 30 C, and with climate change that will more than triple to 66 days by 2040.

Rolf Campbell, a weather historian behind the Twitter account "YOW Weather Records," says Ottawa hit its highest-ever humidex measurement on Sunday: 47.2 C. Temperatures in Ottawa have gone above 32 C for five days in a row, the longest heat wave since 2001. With the forecast set to hit 35 C on Wednesday, a six-day heat wave would be the longest since 1944.

https://www.richmond-news.com/climate-change-not-one-heat-wave-but-a-pattern-of-extremes-scientist-1.23356423

https://www.richmond-news.com/record-high-in-japan-as-heat-wave-grips-the-region-1.23376417

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/column-richmond-is-growing-mcmansions-instead-of-crops-on-protected-farmland-1.23350477

https://www.richmond-news.com/real-estate/upcoming-legislation-will-kill-richmond-s-farm-mega-mansions-agriculture-minister-1.23401952

https://www.richmond-news.com/real-estate/province-to-limit-house-sizes-on-farmland-1.23414431

Richmond bc

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/author-tells-of-local-history-through-maps-1.494913

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/significant-canada-line-delays-tie-up-friday-morning-commutes-1.23389434?utm_source=Richmond+News+Headlines&utm_campaign=c8591de70e-Richmond_News_Headlines_Friday6_26_2015_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4e8f7c5c19-c8591de70e-96527893

The 10-year vision also calls for: “Upgrade capacity” to Canada Line “through the purchase of new rail cars to provide more service, upgrades to stations, and expansion of facilities.”

Canada Line capacity is presently handicapped by past decisions to single-track the line to Brighouse station and building shortened platforms. In the short-term TransLink has ordered 12 new trains to be in place by 2020. Peak frequency on the main line (from Bridgeport station to Waterfront station) will increase from three minutes and 20 seconds to two-and-a-half minutes.

https://www.richmond-news.com/news/several-richmond-bus-routes-changed-come-labour-day-1.23406763

streetcars and trams

https://urbanrailtoday.com/tag/streetcar/  http://www.lightrailnow.org/

https://urbanrailtoday.com/2014/09/29/detroits-m-1-modern-streetcar-project-gets-under-way/

https://lightrailnow.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/alstom-citadis-spirit-diagram-modular-expansion_alstom.jpg

new-subway-metro-systems-cost-nearly-9-times-as-much-as-light-rail

https://lightrailnow.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/new-subway-metro-systems-cost-nearly-9-times-as-much-as-light-rail/

https://voony.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/sacramento-a-lrt-success/

https://lightrailnow.wordpress.com/tag/lrt

BC Skytrain...

https://voony.wordpress.com/category/transit/skytrain-transit/

The below table illustrates the usually used consists and associated train capacity:

4 car MKI train	332 passengers/train
6 car MKI train	498 passengers/train
2 car MKII train	256 or 264 passengers/train
4 car MKII train	512 or 528 passengers/train

https://voony.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/vancouver-skytrain-fleet-requirement/

https://voony.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/skytrain-map.jpg

4 car MKII train	512 or 528 passengers/train
4 car MKIII train	~540 passengers/train
3+2 car MKIII train	~670 passengers/train
5 car MKIII train	~680 passengers/train

---

~2030 Rolling stock requirement


a

voony.wordpress .com/ vancouver-bc

https://voony.wordpress.com/category/vancouver-bc/page/6/

https://voony.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/vancouver-1966-the-ericksonmassey-proposal-for-block-61-and-the-downtown-core/

https://voony.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/vancouver-courthouse-blocks-51-61-71-the-final-erickson-proposal/

vintageairphotos .com/ vancouver bc

http://vintageairphotos.com/tag/vancouver/

http://vintageairphotos.com/tag/downtown/

new-building-competing-for-tallest-in-the-cape-town-cbd

http://www.2oceansvibe.com/2018/02/23/new-building-competing-for-tallest-in-the-cape-town-cbd-will-cost-r15-billion-video/
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=636&status=15

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/activists-take-on-city-over-r10bn-development-for-the-super-wealthy-20171020


http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=43&status=15

Cape_Town Road

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town#Road

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/business/2018-02-22-foreshore-development-violates-cape-towns-transport-policy-say-experts/

http://www.2oceansvibe.com/2016/04/13/you-have-no-idea-just-how-bad-cape-towns-traffic-problem-really-is/

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-07-18-cape-town-scraps-r8-billion-foreshore-project/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town#Economy


https://businesstech.co.za/news/wealth/181239/joburgers-are-not-only-moving-to-cape-town/

Cape_Town Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town#Rail



https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/dam-levels-rise-to-move-out-of-the-citys-danger-zone-for-first-time-in-two-years-20180903

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town#Economy