Vancouver is a funny mixture of leaving things alone (electric buses and an old train through the heart of town) and constructing gazillions of new condos/shops/whatever all at once.
Sometimes I feel like every crane in North America must be here…

This is the site of the Olympic village for the 2010 winter olympics here (and that’s [...]

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Walking around Krakow I am always amazed at how much construction work there is going on. From new roads, to footpaths, to new sewage instalments, to the renovation of old tenement houses. I remember reading somewhere years ago that Sydney Uni spends some 65% of all its money on the maintenance of its old buildings [...]

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