This blog is about the things I find interesting. I’m a designer, maker of odd ball books, a civic historian, and walking tour guide, among other things. You can check out the website at johnatkin.com
Blogroll
- A Trip to the Near East
- Authencity is the Vancouver Archives blog, more fun than you'd think
- Building Vancouver
- Changing Vancouver: Before and After images of the city
- Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC
- Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee
- Chuck Davis' History of Vancouver site
- City of Vancouver Archives
- Frances Bula, watching the city
- Gastown
- Grandview Heritage Group
- Interesting Mountain View
- Janet Nicol
- Pricetags – Gordon Price's great web-based urban design publication
- South Granville Street's Blog
- Spacing Vancouver, a great site to keep up on urban design
- The Changing City updates
- Vancouver Historical Society
- Walking Tours of Vancouver
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
My Twitter
- RT @jmv: British Pacific Properties, Ltd. in the Marine Building; a 1939 ad: flip.it/QSNPi 1 day ago
- RT @johnoceallaigh: I love the look of the 'Garden Bridge' Heatherwick Studios has proposed for the Thames. flip.it/TCxHO 2 days ago
- Good deeds at the Foundling Museum flip.it/3DfKv 3 days ago
- To Crack Down On Rhino Poaching, Authorities Turn To Drones flip.it/rREts 1 week ago
- RT @dandidier: Parkroyal Singapore Architecture – Fubiz™ flip.it/3Aa5x via @Fubiz 1 week ago
What Floats to the Top of My Desk · Stuff that interests me
Hi John: Great blog. Wondered if you would add http://grandviewheritagegroup.org to your blogroll. Thanks!