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Feb. 11, 2022 / Gordon Price

Heritage Week in BC: ‘Altogether Inclusive’

February 21-27 is Heritage Week in BC and across Canada. ‘Altogether Inclusive’ explores the many ways that heritage engagement needs…
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Jan. 31, 2022 / Gordon Price

“Settler” and Other Words – Ambiguous, Ominous and Otherwise

Am I a settler? Not by the dictionary definition: “a person who moves with a group of others to live…
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Jan. 30, 2022 / Gordon Price

Time Lapse: Surrey in the Fog

Morning Fog from vancouver…
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Jan. 25, 2022 / Gordon Price

Housing Reform: Why don’t we just go Kiwi?

  Here’s the clearest explanation of what New Zealand has done to address housing need and affordability – in a…
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Jan. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

Things will happen in the future

Don’t know any details about this, other than it’s a TikTok complication from a Chinese site called @VFXHD that does…
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Jan. 20, 2022 / Gordon Price

Revising History with Sam Sullivan: The TEAM Era

The fourth and final video of Sam Sullivan’s four-part development history of Vancouver.  Full playlist here.   An Alternative Opinion…
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Jan. 19, 2022 / Gordon Price

House Space: A Fascinating and Unsurprising Map

Where American families spend more of their time in big houses: Yes, the kitchen and television room, not the dining…
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Jan. 18, 2022 / Gordon Price

The Debate over E-Bikes: Where do they belong?

From Wired: … ebikes are having a moment. Market research company NPD says ebike sales grew 240 percent in the…
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Jan. 13, 2022 / Gordon Price

Impermanence and the pandemic: Street design evolves

Two years into the pandemic.  Responses and innovations in street use have been tried out, tested and are now evolving. …
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Jan. 10, 2022 / Gordon Price

Life in Kitsilano c. 2022

John Graham asks: When future archeologists find this stratum in our garbage dumps, will they understand how coffee and neatly…
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Jan. 07, 2022 / Gordon Price

Ambiguity and Power at the Park Board

In politics especially, when a word or phrase is used ambiguously, there are likely some ill-defined assumptions going along for…
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Jan. 07, 2022 / Gordon Price

The Wind on Lost Lagoon

The powerful winds that hit Metro had become paint brushes by the time they reached Lost Lagoon:…
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Jan. 07, 2022 / Gordon Price

Small-scale Commercial in Calgary

Most mornings I start my day with an email from Brandon Donnelly – a developer and, shall we say, urban…
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Jan. 02, 2022 / Gordon Price

Predictions for ’22: Tipping Point for S-F Zoning, Van Plan Pan

It’s that time of year: making predictions for the rest of the year.  (Add your own or links to others…

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