Peter Waldkirch

Yeah, I ordered a wallet from them a couple of days ago--my trusty wallet of 15+ years has finally given up the ghost and I wanted something local that would last at least that long. My research led me to them. This is one I'm happy to wait for a bit!

Leather Wallets Handcrafted by Popov Leather® Leather Wallets made to order by Popov Leather. We handcraft men's wallets, card holders, belts, and more. No hassle-returns and guaranteed for life. All made with premium, full-grain USA leather.

Popov Leather makes everything in Nelson and they've got a sale going on right now:

www.popovleather.com

It looks like Jason getting dragged down at the end of Jason Goes to Hell so I dunno maybe it's appropriate

Year End Dance Party Building a Vancouver for Everyone

OneCity is having a year end party tomorrow, Saturday Dec 6!

Ever since I got involved in pro-housing and urbanist advocacy, OneCity has been the strongest party on those issues.

Tickets are $25. I'll be there, if you are too, come say hi!
www.onecityvancouver.ca/year_end_dan...

Should housing be allowed in Vancouver

YouTube video by Jonas Čeika - CCK Philosophy The Crowning Gem of Soviet Urban Planning (Lazdynai, Lithuania)

Soviet planners and architects were given a totally free hand to design a ground-up mixed use district in Vilnius. Public land, generous funding, no market constraints. The results? Well... 😬 youtu.be/XkfQW0Fwewg?...

We face a climate emergency, a housing/affordabikity/homelessness emergency, a public health emergency, an equity emergency, an infrastructure cost emergency, all tied to too low densities, not enough housing, & far too much car dependency.

What we DON’T face is a “community character” emergency.

Professionally incapacitated due to nobody liking him

Have any of you experienced something like this (or worse) due to dangerous conditions caused by a driver turning right on red?

Please send us photos or videos! Reply here, DM us, or send us an email: contact(at) visionzerovancouver .ca

Peter Waldkirch Just some guy, advocating for more housing in Vancouver with Abundant Housing Vancouver.

Good point--I have been posting most of them to YouTube, but not all! You can always SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON to follow me on YouTube! ;)

www.youtube.com/@PeterWaldki...

Damn that would have been to catch!

My Taiwan Short Videos - Peter Waldkirch Webzone I've been making short videos about Taipei urbanism from a Vancouverite's perspective. Here they are collected as embedded links!

And here ya go! I've embedded my videos from my trip to Taiwan (and, briefly, Japan) as TikTok videos here, so I think they should be easy to watch even without a TikTok account, but lemme know if you have any problems!

pwaldkirch.ca/2025/11/11/t...

I'm back from my trip to Taiwan! I had a lot of fun making some short videos about the urbanism I saw.

If you're not on TikTok or Insta -- don't worry! I've embedded them all on my webpage. Link below! Here's a quick one, but there's more about the metro, bus lanes, small lot apartments, and more!

The Washington Post headline reads: "Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down. November 24, 2025" Accompanying the article if a black ad white photo of someone walking on what appears to be a cold fall day. The camera is capturing their back as they're walking in a park with leaves on the ground. They are wearing a black coat and black leggings. The Washington Post has added radiating yellow lines from their butt to suggest they're farting. The photo credit says the image is from iStock.

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

The phrase "antlike conformity" has become part of my vocabulary for exactly that reason

I've said it before: I'll take neighbourhood characters over neighbourhood character any day of the week.

Not a culture war thing, just something I have felt doesn't really apply to Vancouver ever since watching KVOS as a teenager 😅

Interesting branding idea.

I am firmly anti-"Pacific Northwest" to refer to any area in Canada. It's clearly an American-centric term! Northwest of what! If we're talking a Canadian perspective, we're the Pacific Southwest. A continental perspective, what, the Pacific Midwest? 😅

Seriously guys, housing is good, actually. Desperately needed social housing doubly so.

Ugh don't make me look closely!

But I do see they still list the Fairview/South Granville Action Committee, which as far as I can tell was a single-issue "group" (opposed to rental apt at Broadway & Birch) run by one or two people tops. That's my n'hood, and they never responded when I emailed them

A monstrous parallel for him to draw clearly. But "Patrick Condon thinks buildings have the moral standing of people" would explain a lot actually.

This is a critical point: what do we mean by "neighbourhood character" when we're talking about detached house areas?

Whose character? What does it mean when in the context of a neighbourhood so expensive most people could never hope to afford to live there?

The implications get worse and worse the more you think about it!

Every NIMBY’s Speech At a Public Hearing Friends, neighbors, it’s good to see all of you. I know you, you know me, and just seeing all of your faces at this city council meeting reminds m...

"we need to preserve the character of our neighborhoods, by which I mean prevent immigrants and people of modest means from buying or renting near where I live"

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/eve...

I’ll keep this short. This motion would make it easier to build housing. And housing is good. That is the essence of being pro-housing. This motion applies only to social housing because making it easier to build non-profit housing is the lowest of low hanging fruits. Everyone says they support affordable housing, right? Well, listening to the speakers tonight, apparently not. But still, this advances a core pro-housing proposition: to make it easier to build housing. The pro-housing perspective would be to approve this, and then extend that same logic to other forms of housing across the city. To make it easier to build all sorts of housing everywhere. Because this is actually very simple We need more housing. We need more social housing. We need more non-profit housing. We need more market housing. We need more housing. And to do that we need to make it easier to build more housing. This motion is a step in the right direction. It is not possible to call oneself “pro-housing” but oppose this motion.

So council just decided that they will not vote on the Social Housing Initiative tonight, and gang I was not planning on live tweeting this, I am jet lagged af so I am going to bed. Here are the notes of my comments:

Alright, now up is Larry Benge, with the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods, which purports to be a representative group of n'hood associations, but includes hollow, non-inclusive, private groups. A few years back I tried to identify defunct member groups, here's what I found back then...

Randy Helten said council could be "HEROES TO THE PUBLIC" by rejecting this.

love it

"Why are they throwing a parade? Did we win a war?"

"No, they outlawed housing!!!!"

I refuse to so think