We made it.
Polar Bear Swim crowd: English Bay, Vancouver – January 1, 2013.
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Making it through another year is a kind of achievement, after all – for us as citizens, as a city, as a civilization.
The turn of the date is also a time to wish you well for what I bet will be an exciting year – a prediction one can make with a high degree of certainty.
Price Tags will be here to provide some perspective and provoke some comment – along with the many contributors who increasingly make PT more varied, whimsical and worth reading.
Thanks to you , Tom Durning, Scot Bathgate, Ken Ohrn, Gladys We, Ron Richings. Thanks to you, those who are regulars in my Inbox, those who send me items occasionally, those who sent me essays and reworked theses, those whose blogs I borrow from freely (thinking of you, Andrew Sullivan), those who sites are full of content (Atlantic Cities, Better! Cities & Towns), those many sources of aggregation and proliferation (Sightline, Zite, Planetizen, Reconnecting America), those reporters and columnists in the mainstream media who do the original work, those Tweeters and ReTweeters, those who I forgot.
More, please. Send me more.
Last year in Price Tags: about a thousand posts, readers from 187 countries – and double the number of views (up to about 400,000, says the WordPress helper monkey).
The posts most viewed:
- 1 What if we advertised buses like we do cars? – 8 comments September 2012
- 2 Passerelle – Personal Favourites – 5 comments August 2008
- 3 Singapore’s Sky Park: Architecture as Fantasy – 4 comments August 2011
- 4 Passerelle of the Week-London – 1 comment August 2008
- 5 The Broadway Line: Ransford vs. Walker – 92 comments December 2012
Much more to come. Starting now.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading PT this past year, and look forward to another! Thanks for always having something interesting to read when I need an escape during the day. Its much appreciated!!
Hi Gordon: thanks for the work you do in bringing your ideas out into the world. And thanks for the personal mention, but I do wish to point out a minor typo. My name is spelled Ohrn.
Just for fun: although my name is short, it is unusual. When I was a schoolboy, my name provided endless delight to my buddies, since it can be pronounced resoundingly within a belch. In Swedish, my grandfather’s ancestral land, it means eagle. This is especially fitting since I’ve been around the world of aviation since I was a little boy. At one time, I collected spelling variations on my name. The only criterion for inclusion was that the variation be written on some sort of official correspondence. I stopped when the list got to 37. My father was on someone’s payroll for a while as O’Hara.
All the best to you, your friends and family in the new year.
Thank you Mr Price for being providing most ineresting posts about urbanism and sustainability – happy new year