Podcast appearances and mentions of adrian crook

The city we're talking about is Vancouver. People being followed, people being attacked, being verbally accosted. What is going on here? We talk to Adrian Crook, who is a Yaletown Resident, as well as Vancouver city councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung.

In this episode of Folk Tales, we speak with Adrian Crook from Weymouth Sailing School. Adrian shares his story of a life on the water, including his time as a Navigator in the Merchant Navy through to competitive sailing at an international level. Adrian has had some incredible experiences and we are lucky enough to hear the best bits!Happy listening!www.boatfolk.co.uk

Is Vancouver broken or just potentially broke? First off, Property Manager, Klaus Rode, joins us a month into the COVID-19 crisis to discuss the rental market. How many people are actually deferring their rent? Are rent prices in free fall? And how does an eviction moratorium impact our real estate market? And then, Adrian Crook and Rob McDowell join us to grade the City Council after its first 18 months. Spoiler alert: this report card might not make the fridge; in fact, one Councillor might even take to Zoom and flush it down the toilet. Today's episode is a triple threat! Stay home and listen up.

Lots of teachers are relying on emails, but is there a better way to be communicating? We chat with Adrian Crook. Author of the blog: 5 Kids 1 Condo.  

Should small windowless rooms be acceptable as bedrooms in Vancouver? In an attempt to increase the number of family-friendly, multi-bedroom rental apartments, the City of Vancouver is experimenting with allowing bedrooms without exterior windows in some new apartment buildings. Joseph Jones blogs about the city's housing policy on his website, Eye of Norquay, and he believes that this is a design change that the city of Vancouver should not explore.  However, Adrian Crook resides in a 1,000 sq ft condo with his five children, and recently created an 32 sq ft ‘inboard bedroom' for his oldest son, Oliver. The space has no window, but Adrian claims his son enjoys having his own space.    Guest: Adrian Crook Co-founder of Abundant Housing Vancouver  Blogs about his life living downtown with kids on his website,  5 Kids 1 Condo dot com 13 year old son, Oliver,  has an inboard bedroom    Guest: Joseph Jones  Blogs about Vancouver's housing policy on his website, Eye on Norquay

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Past Vancouver City Council candidates — and Price Talks pundits — Adrian Crook and Rob McDowell return to the podcast to give their latest letter grades to our local leaders.And much ground is covered in the process, including Rental 100, the Broadway-UBC subway, and the back-story to the cold shoulder given to Vancouver Rape Relief’s grant request. Plus, teapot tempests such as councillor budgets, and the big mistake Kennedy made early in his mayoral tenure.The team also ruminates on two of our North Shore governments, and their tin ears for the true needs of their communities. What to do? A few good ideas are tossed around, and one “truly awful, awful” one. (Tell us how you really feel, Gord.)But back to Vancouver. Our esteemed duo answers the most pressing questions about our trail mix of a local government. Why should the parties caucus? Who helped the newbie councillors walk back problematic votes? Who’s filling the role of hood ornament? And how corrupt are we, really? Read more »

It was with some relish that the Price Talks production team spun the guest mic around to hear what the podcast’s namesake, the well-seasoned urbanist Gordon Price, might reveal when lightly grilled.An activist, political and urbanist voice in Metro Vancouver for four decades, Gord’s public life has been informed in no small part by his upbringing in Victoria, which included some formative cultural, social and personal influences that eventually led him — with some trepidation — to Vancouver’s West End in 1978.It was an era of evolution for that community, one in which Gord played an important role. Sure, he’s told parts of the story before, and yes, we get some of his patented activist, political, urbanist, and wonkish intellectual perspectives.But this time, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, he let some of the editorial guard down, and gives a truly heartfelt and personal perspective on Vancouver — the city and the region, the place to which he has been so committed, for so much of his adult life.We get the real Gord. So enjoy.And happy birthday to the SFU Centre for Dialogue Fellow, former SFU City Program Director, former Vancouver City Councillor, AIDS Vancouver founder, and West End activist and resident, Gordon Price. Read more »

Adrian Crook is an entrepreneur and housing activist. He is probably best known for his blog 5 Kids 1 Condo. Additionally, Adrian runs a successful game design company. Somehow, with five kids and as a fulltime entrepreneur, he manages to find time to write and speak about sustainable housing. Adrian is challenging the way we thinking about homes and hosing. There are few ideas that stood out for me in this conversation:Single-family homes are the least sustainable form of using. Adrian makes the point that for the last 50-70 years, the single-family house in the suburb has been the most popular form of housing. He argues that we are going to need to give up on the dream of white picket fences, with a yard, and two cars. It is the most expensive way to live. This approach to living, also called sprawl, is inefficient for municipalities and residents. We need to focus more on density.Housing and transportation and inextricably linked. From his own experience, he has seen that changing the size of your home has cost implications. Driving to and from the suburbs makes for poor quality of life and expensive travel costs. Time spent in your car, time spent on gas, and maintenance of your car all add up. It does not help in providing a good quality of life.A lower standard of life does not have to mean a lower quality of life. Adrian made the point that the way trends are moving, successive generations are likely to have lower standards of living than their parents. For him, this does not then have to translate into a lower quality of life. If you make the right decision, you can live in an urban environment and not sacrifice quality of life.The life you live is determined by the intentions and data you bring to it. Adrian made an intentional decision to raise five kids in a condo. He asked himself, why was he is doing what he is doing? Why was he living the way he was living? For him, he asked why and came to the conclusion that it made more sense to live in an urban environment than it did to live in the suburbs. The intention to live in an urban environment has shaped his everyday life and he has chosen to have a high quality of life above everything else.The life of a rebel is actually mundane. Despite having a popular blog and being someone who deeply challenges existing beliefs around how we should all live, Adrian reminds us that his life is still relatively mundane. He takes his children to school, cleans his house, and then he writes or does the things he is passionate about. To him it is nothing too exciting, most of what he is doing is the everyday stuff of life.People make irrational decisions in the face of fear and an unchallenged status quo. Adrian had an experience where someone reported that his children were on the bus unsupervised. He had taken the time to teach them how to take the bus. His children were all accompanied by their older siblings, yet someone complained that he was being an irresponsible parent. The Child Protective Services determined that he did everything reasonably expected and his children would be safe. Yah! He was a responsible parent. Somehow they still decided that his children under 10 could not ride bus unaccompanied by an adult. They suggested he move or drop his children to school. You would need to listen to the episode to follow how silly the whole thing was. His argument was the statistically, buses are the safest form of transport but it was still decided that his children could not ride the bus unaccompanied.Look for stuff in the margins. Look for different ways of doing things that would make you happy instead of assuming that what makes other people happy will also work for you. Adrian found that when he is able to sit back and question the status quo, it brings out the best in him. He had fallen for the dream of a family and house in the suburbs. He learnt that he was happiest when he is able to question what he was doing, question what other people were doing or what society was telling him to do. Taking the time to step back and question the taken for granted, helped him think about the small mundane decisions that really drive larger decisions and his quality of life. Adrian has found that his best thinking is slow thinking.Disruption is not always positive. Often the people who lose are the people who are already disenfranchised. For example, UBER’s algorithms work to drive wages down and the price up in favour or the company. Airbnb is taking away housing from the rental market and driving the rental prices up. What this often means, is that those who are already disenfranchised are the ones who might be losing the most.Some decisions should be expert based while others should be crowd-based. This was really my point, but the idea that we should vote on decisions that are better done by experts is one that has irked me recently. For example, Brexit is a trade decision and is probably best left to people who understand the implications of trade. Transportation is a nuanced field and experts know that wide roads cause more traffic but the average person would likely vote for wider roads. There are just some decisions that are better left to experts and we should be clear on those.I really enjoyed my conversation with Adrian. There is a lot to learn from this episode. Hope you enjoy the episode.

Adrian Crook is an entrepreneur and housing activist. He is probably best known for his blog 5 Kids 1 Condo. Additionally, Adrian runs a successful game design company. Somehow, with five kids and as a fulltime entrepreneur, he manages to find time to write and speak about sustainable housing. Adrian is challenging the way we thinking about homes and hosing. There are few ideas that stood out for me in this conversation:Single-family homes are the least sustainable form of using. Adrian makes the point that for the last 50-70 years, the single-family house in the suburb has been the most popular form of housing. He argues that we are going to need to give up on the dream of white picket fences, with a yard, and two cars. It is the most expensive way to live. This approach to living, also called sprawl, is inefficient for municipalities and residents. We need to focus more on density.Housing and transportation and inextricably linked. From his own experience, he has seen that changing the size of your home has cost implications. Driving to and from the suburbs makes for poor quality of life and expensive travel costs. Time spent in your car, time spent on gas, and maintenance of your car all add up. It does not help in providing a good quality of life.A lower standard of life does not have to mean a lower quality of life. Adrian made the point that the way trends are moving, successive generations are likely to have lower standards of living than their parents. For him, this does not then have to translate into a lower quality of life. If you make the right decision, you can live in an urban environment and not sacrifice quality of life.The life you live is determined by the intentions and data you bring to it. Adrian made an intentional decision to raise five kids in a condo. He asked himself, why was he is doing what he is doing? Why was he living the way he was living? For him, he asked why and came to the conclusion that it made more sense to live in an urban environment than it did to live in the suburbs. The intention to live in an urban environment has shaped his everyday life and he has chosen to have a high quality of life above everything else.The life of a rebel is actually mundane. Despite having a popular blog and being someone who deeply challenges existing beliefs around how we should all live, Adrian reminds us that his life is still relatively mundane. He takes his children to school, cleans his house, and then he writes or does the things he is passionate about. To him it is nothing too exciting, most of what he is doing is the everyday stuff of life.People make irrational decisions in the face of fear and an unchallenged status quo. Adrian had an experience where someone reported that his children were on the bus unsupervised. He had taken the time to teach them how to take the bus. His children were all accompanied by their older siblings, yet someone complained that he was being an irresponsible parent. The Child Protective Services determined that he did everything reasonably expected and his children would be safe. Yah! He was a responsible parent. Somehow they still decided that his children under 10 could not ride bus unaccompanied by an adult. They suggested he move or drop his children to school. You would need to listen to the episode to follow how silly the whole thing was. His argument was the statistically, buses are the safest form of transport but it was still decided that his children could not ride the bus unaccompanied.Look for stuff in the margins. Look for different ways of doing things that would make you happy instead of assuming that what makes other people happy will also work for you. Adrian found that when he is able to sit back and question the status quo, it brings out the best in him. He had fallen for the dream of a family and house in the suburbs. He learnt that he was happiest when he is able to question what he was doing, question what other people were doing or what society was telling him to do. Taking the time to step back and question the taken for granted, helped him think about the small mundane decisions that really drive larger decisions and his quality of life. Adrian has found that his best thinking is slow thinking.Disruption is not always positive. Often the people who lose are the people who are already disenfranchised. For example, UBER’s algorithms work to drive wages down and the price up in favour or the company. Airbnb is taking away housing from the rental market and driving the rental prices up. What this often means, is that those who are already disenfranchised are the ones who might be losing the most.Some decisions should be expert based while others should be crowd-based. This was really my point, but the idea that we should vote on decisions that are better done by experts is one that has irked me recently. For example, Brexit is a trade decision and is probably best left to people who understand the implications of trade. Transportation is a nuanced field and experts know that wide roads cause more traffic but the average person would likely vote for wider roads. There are just some decisions that are better left to experts and we should be clear on those.I really enjoyed my conversation with Adrian. There is a lot to learn from this episode. Hope you enjoy the episode.

From A to F, where would you grade Vancouver City Council?  This was the question posed by Gordon Price to two of “The Independents” — podcast guests and past Council candidates Adrian Crook and Rob McDowell.In this end-of-year wrap up, and summation of standout moments in council chambers over their first two months in office, Gord, Adrian and Rob talk about all manner of hot topics, many of which will be back on the agenda (and in the Comments section and your news feed) in the new year.Spatial justice. Consultation, the city-wide plan, and ‘clean slates’. Uncomfortable council seating arrangements, and creative alliances (ie. the “GreeNPA”). Our new mayor, and electoral reform.Oh yes, and which outlaw was ‘most wanted’ for unspeakable crimes in the District of North Vancouver….and what’s in store for development and densification on the north shore? Read more »

Gord reviews the recent municipal campaign with four unsuccessful candidates for Vancouver City Council who ran as independents, together. Sort of.Harm reduction and Downtown Eastside activist Sarah Blyth, affordable housing and transit advocate Adrian Crook, Musqueam First Nation community leader Wade Grant, and health sector mediator Rob McDowell chat about what happened, what they’re watching with the current council, issues of representation in our public institutions, and whether they’ll run again.And if so, would they run again as independents…or perhaps a new party? Read more »

Adrian Crook is an independent Vancouver City Council candidate.He blogs at 5 Kids 1 Condo about raising five children in downtown Vancouver. He made national headlines when the provincial government of British Columbia barred his children from riding the bus without adult supervision. He is also a founding member of Abundant Housing Vancouver and Abundant Transit BC.

Adrian Crook is an independent Vancouver City Council candidate.He blogs at 5 Kids 1 Condo about raising five children in downtown Vancouver. He made national headlines when the provincial government of British Columbia barred his children from riding the bus without adult supervision. He is also a founding member of Abundant Housing Vancouver and Abundant Transit BC.

Adrian Crook is an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council The post Adrian Crook – 2018 Council Interview Series appeared first on Cambie Report.

This week on the show, outsourcing the household chores. Does it make financial sense to shell out for things like meal service, grocery pickup and a household cleaner? We chat with a financial expert who says it’s okay to buy back your time. And how the State of Utah is redefining neglect. It’s passed a free-range parenting law in hopes of giving kids more freedom. Adrian Crook, a Vancouver father, who was barred from letting his kids take public transit alone, weighs in.

What if our collective idea of a good life — a house with a yard, two cars, maybe a summer home to boot — is missing the mark? Adrian Crook, the Vancouver-based author of 5 Kids 1 Condo, has been exploring that question. Living in a 1,000-square foot condo in the West Coast city’s Yaletown, … Continue reading 5 Kids 1 Condo: “Reality is bigger than what [we’re] told it can be” →

What if our collective idea of a good life — a house with a yard, two cars, maybe a summer home to boot — is missing the mark? Adrian Crook, the Vancouver-based author of 5 Kids 1 Condo, has been exploring that question. Living in a 1,000-square foot condo in the West Coast city’s Yaletown neighbourhood, … Continue reading 5 Kids 1 Condo: “Reality is bigger than what [we’re] told it can be” →

Adrian Crook joins AM640 and says his eldest four children, ranging in age from seven to 11, started riding the bus from their home in downtown Vancouver to their school in North Vancouver last spring and have not experienced any problems.

Adrian Crook is an award-winning game design consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the social, casual, and core games sectors. He has produced and designed over two dozen products across platforms ranging from early Nintendo and Sega Genesis to PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox 360, Wii, Facebook, iOS, and Online.

Adrian Crook is an award-winning game design consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the social, casual, and core games sectors. He has produced and designed over two dozen products across platforms ranging from early Nintendo and Sega Genesis to PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, PC, Xbox 360, Wii, Facebook, iOS, and Online. In 2006, Adrian was named Producer of the Year by the Canadian New Media Awards and his products have won numerous awards, including “Game of the Year.” In January 2008, Adrian founded Adrian Crook & Associates, a game design and strategy consultancy that has contributed to the success of over 90 valued international clients. Adrian’s experienced team is focused on social and mobile game design, gamification, business development, and startup growth strategy. Adrian is an advisor to several game industry firms and is currently a creative mentor at Execution Labs, a game incubator, and accelerator. He has given interviews on G4TV and other TV, print, and online news outlets, and has spoken as a social games expert at conferences such as GDC, SXSW, ICE, Casual Connect, INplay, and GameON: Finance.  Visit www.playmakerspodcast.com to get access to the full blog post for this episode and much more!

5kids1condo.com blogger, Adrian Crook, joins Adam and Matt to talk raising a family in 1000 square feet downtown, minimalism, lessening your carbon foot print, and why densification is the answer to Vancouver's housing issues.

Jennifer sits down with Adrian Crook, a father who is raising his 5 children in a 1000 square foot condo in Vancouver, Canada. Subscribe on your preferred platform: www.invisiblecitypodcast.com/subscribe

Adrian Crook lives with his partner and 5 kids in a 1000 sq ft condo in downtown Vancouver. We talked about the benefits of urban living for families, and discuss the challenges that cities like Toronto and Vancouver face in getting more families to make the shift to downtown, high rise living. Condo investors should be aware of this trend and start adding larger 2 and 3 bedroom units to their portfolios. Click here for show notes.Andrew la Fleur / Sales Representative416-371-2333 / andrew@truecondos.comhttp://www.truecondos.comhttp://twitter.com/andrewlafleurhttp://facebook.com/truecondos