Urban Tech Links: UTL

JF: This is a general reference blog that links up to several things in addition to science & fiction, the esoteric & the mysterious. It's where mythology & technology, science & fiction, coincidence & synchronicity, occasionally merge. A vast amount of websites are referenced here so that visitors can see & compare various perspectives.

View my complete profile

At 60, Keanu Reeves FINALLY Reveals the Truth About "The Matrix"

Architecture in Movies – The Matrix Trilogy

New Westminster City Council balks at high-rise density plan

TransLink's fare enforcement blitz in B.C.

B.C. drivers sound off about EVs in HOV lanes

New Zealand

Head of State and Governor-General for Australia

PM Carney pushes nation building plan after 'positive' call with Trump

The new Oakridge Park mall

Maple Ridge planning transit-oriented development around future Bus Rapid Transit line

Vancouver, WA could become the second-largest city after Seattle through annexation

Western Canada's future tallest tower in Metro Vancouver

Toronto councillors give themselves gigantic raises of 24%

vancouver-art-gallery-proposal-rfp-submissions-design

A promise for new 50-metre pool in South Vancouver?

Boutique hotel conversion for office tower near Vancouver Convention Centre Centre

New limited fourth BC Ferries route to run from Metro Vancouver to Vancouver Island this summer

How Expo 88 changed Brisbane forever and for the better

History of Expo 86 in Vancouver

Olympic Winter Institute of Australia

The Queensland Government announced that the nation of Australia will see a new National Aquatic Centre (NAC)

The Brisbane Aquatic Centre

Vancouver Aquatic Centre rebuild will not have a 50 metre lap pool, after all

City of Vancouver proposes huge residential project near Science World

An Edwardian-era building was one of Edmonton's first skyscrapers

Not 50m, just 25-metres for new Vancouver Aquatic Centre pool

First residents could move into Senakw's first rental housing tower by the end of 2025

Vancouver and Seattle differences, again

New-report-revealing-SF Bay-Area-bridges-are at risk

Functionality Mistakes Throughout History That Were Way Too Expensive to Fix

Public transit advocates to rally Sunday to save BC Lower Mainland bus routes

The Hudson Bay Railway and Port of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

Anchorage, Alaska

Why Interstate 95 is the BUSIEST Highway in America

Bold annexation plans could push Vancouver, WA city’s population beyond Spokane and Tacoma

Riverside Centre, Brisbane and QV1, Perth

The Typical Vancouver Size Stump Building

BMO Tower in Chicago and Toronto...

Interstate 90

The sinkhole opens up on I-80 in Wharton, New Jersey

Vancouver developer pitches 43- and 39-storey towers next to Commodore Ballroom

Burnaby Hospital seeks 170 new staff as first phase of redevelopment nears completion

Revamped 800 Granville proposal drops offices for rental housing and hotel uses

Few-developers are-building-homes-in Toronto, as the market-plunges

Gordie Howe International Bridge

unité urbaine - urban unit

Granville bar owners demand immediate action ahead of FIFA

Metro Vancouver's new housing construction starts down by 48%

The Case of Some Buildings That Couldn’t Be Bought and Torn Down

Some gas, hydro or electric company office towers

Parts of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills will be closed for LA Metro's D Line extension

Telus Boot site in Burnaby approved for five new towers

B.C. government to abolish its carbon tax after 17 years

Big payment approved to remove social housing in a future Vancouver tower

City of Surrey to plan for new waterfront entertainment district next to Pattullo Bridge

Former city-centre-motel-at 2111-Main-street-in Vancouver, redevelopment is approved

Massive Jericho Lands development will be 20-times denser than its neighbourhood

What’s next for the Hudson’s Bay flagship store in downtown Vancouver?

City National Plaza in L.A.

Bankers Hall in Calgary

The Post building in Vancouver

The Old City Hall and The Simpson Tower in Toronto

10 busiest of the 145 bus routes that could be cut without new TransLink funding

Mass timber hotel proposed near Granville Island

Vancouver is Canada's top hotel market