– “Effective Urban Densification by Barry Johns – Book Review”, Canadian Architect (Vol. 70, No. 7, October 2025).
– “Foreward”, section in book, City Builders – The Maleks, the Olympics, and a Historic Gift to Vancouver, by Richard Littlemore, Barlow Books (2025).
– “Structuring the City” and “Foreward”, chapter and section in book, The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice, edited by Michael Larice, Molly O’Neill Robinson, and Allen Pennman, Routledge (2026 publication pending).
– “The cloak of secrecy around Vancouver’s False Creek South needs to be lifted”, The Globe and Mail (September 14, 2021).
– “Big-City Planning: Memories and Insights”, Plan Canada Magazine- Special Centenary Edition (Spring 2019).
– “Reshaping of Downtown Vancouver – A Case Study of Transformative Incrementalism”, chapter in book, Transformative Incrementalism: The Journey to Sustainability, by Robert Buchan, Municipal World (2019).
– “The Art of the City by Raffaele Milani – Book Review”, Canadian Architect (Vol. 63, No. 3, March 2018).
– “Northeast False Creek: Vancouver’s New Golden Apple”, Vancouver Sun (February 21 2018).
– “Reclaiming Space for the Community – Giving the 13th Floor to the People”, Vancouver Sun (November 10 2017).
– “Canada Needs a New Vision for the Suburbs”, Vancouver Sun (October 30 2015).
– “The City as Museum and the Museum as City”, chapter in e-book, The City and Its Museum, edited by Marlen Moulion and Eric Sandweiss, International Council of Museums (2015).
– “Taking Canada to the World: Touchstones for Effective Canadian Planning Abroad”, Plan Canada Magazine (Winter 2012).
– “Living in False Creek North – From the Residents’ Perspective”, self-published booklet through the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (July, 2008).
– “Moving Forward in Canadian Communities: Soliloquy of an Urbanist”, Plan Canada Magazine (Winter 2004) – Winner of the 2005 Plan Canada Feature Article of the Year from the Canadian Institute of Planners.
– “Beaudry is Linchpin of NCC’s Excellence”, Ottawa Citizen (March 2004).
– “Re-inventing the City for People – A City by Design”, Ontario Planning Journal (Vol. 19, No. 1, January/February 2004).
– “Laws and Processes Behind the Urban Designer’s Pencil: Thoughts from the Vancouver Experience”, Plan Canada Magazine (Autumn 2003).
– “Neighbourhood in the City”, with Jacqui Underwood, Vancouver Lifestyles Magazine (April 2001).
– “New Urban Neighbourhoods in Vancouver”, Making Cities Liveable Newsletter (Vol. 5, No. 3/4. 2000).
– “Development Management in a Fast-Changing Canadian City: The Vancouver Example” and “China-Canada: Urban Cross Currents”, with Louise Morris, China-Urban Planning Overseas (November 2000).
– “Living First in Downtown Vancouver”, American Planning Association – Zoning News (April 2000).
– “Hands Across the Pacific: Lessons from Chinese and Canadian Co-Operation” Forum – Canada’s National Municipal Affairs Magazine, with Louise Morris (Summer/Fall 1998).
– “New Urban Neighbourhoods in Old Urban Ways”, New Urbanism – Publication of the International Making Cities Liveable Council (Spring 1997).
– City of Vancouver Casino Review Discussion Paper, with others (August 1994).
-“Design Guidelines – Curse or Blessing”, Awards Magazine for Architecture, Construction and Interior Design, with others (September 1994).
– The Vancouver Legacies Program – Visions, (July 1985).
– More Testimony: Theory and Practice of Citizens’ Participation”, Plan Canada Magazine, book review (early 1984).
– “Hastings Sunrise”, “Planning for Cassiar Street”, “The ALRT System”, and “1986 and Beyond – Giving to Vancouver’s Future”, Quarterly Review Magazine (October 1980, October 1981, April 1982 and July 1985, respectively).
– A Design Probe Comparison of Regional and Municipal Attitudes Toward Regional Town Centres – Case Study in Burnaby, B.C., master’s thesis (May 1976).
– “Champlain Heights: Citizens’ Urban Design in Vancouver”, Landscape Architecture Magazine (March 1976).
– Vancouver’s Transportation Future, editor (Fall 1972).
Following are publications where Larry Beasley’s work is extensively discussed:
– Littlemore, Richard, “The Ideal City?”, TREK UBC Magazine (Vol. 78, No. 1, Spring/Summer, 2022)
– Bani Hashim, Alamira Reem, Planning Abu Dhabi – An Urban History, Routledge, 2019.
– Chung, Cindy, “Member in Focus”, Planning West Magazine (Winter, 2019).
– MacDonald, Elizabeth, Urban Waterfront Promenades, Routledge, 2018.
– Grant, Jill, “Experiential Planning: A Practitioner’s Account of Vancouver’s Success”, Journal of the American Planning Association (Vol. 75, Number 3, 2009).
– Montgomery, Charles, “Futureville”, Canadian Geographic Magazine (Vol. 126, No. 3, May/June, 2006).
– MacDonald, Elizabeth, “Street-facing Dwelling Units and Liveability: The Impact of Emerging Building Types in Vancouver’s New High-Density Residential Neighbourhoods”, Journal of Urban Design (Vol. 18, Number 1, February, 2005).
– Sandercock, Leonie, “An Anatomy of Civic Ambition in Vancouver: Toward Human Density”, Harvard Design Magazine (Number 22, Spring/Summer, 2005).
– Berelowitz, Lance: Dream City – Vancouver and the Global Imagination, Douglas & McIntyre, 2005.
– Fisher, Bonnie et al: Remaking the Urban Waterfront, Urban Land Institute, 2004.
– Breen, Ann and Rigby, Dick: In Town Living – A Different American Dream, Praeger Publishers, 2004.
– Punter, John: The Vancouver Achievement, UBC Press, 2003.
– Register, Richard: Ecocities – Building Cities in Balance with Nature, Berkeley Hills Books, 2002.

