Today, Greater Victoria Placemaking Network launched the ‘Chalk Your Walk’ initiative to help build and sustain connections between neighbours during this period of physical distancing, and to support front line health and services workers.The Greater Victoria Placemaking … [Read more...]
About Lorne Daniel
Little Free Libraries and COVID-19
Little free library friends, We hope this finds you well and that you are keeping your spirits and health up during the COVID-19 pandemic and its "social distancing." We have had a few people contact us about little free libraries and COVID-19. As you know, we support little … [Read more...]
What’s happening at Turkey Head?
What exactly is Turkey Head, and what plans are emerging there?The setting and the opportunity Turkey Head is a distinctive public space in Oak Bay, situated adjacent to the Oak Bay Marina and popular destination for residents and visitors alike. Currently devoted … [Read more...]
Rethinking and Reconnecting Beacon Hill Park
Beacon Hill Park is one of Victoria's great places. How many people realize that the park extends south to the waterfront on the Salish Sea? The impression of many is that the park ends at Dallas Road -- and the strip along the waterfront is something else. Certainly, that is … [Read more...]
Building great communities with Pocket Places
"Start small and build incrementally," was presenter Teale Phelps Bondaroff's advice to 30 participants at our November 5 Pocket Places workshop."People have a passion for the hyper-local -- small nodes on their own streets," noted co-presenter Lorne Daniel. So the workshop … [Read more...]