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Jan. 18, 2007 / Gordon Price

SUCCESSFUL VICTIMS

The New York Times reports on the Vancouver dilemma: the Living First policy, which has encouraged more residential development downtown,…
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Jan. 17, 2007 / Gordon Price

NYT Pipeline: Who Cares About the Price of Gas?

I subscribe to the New York Times Select – the stuff you have to pay for to see on the…
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Jan. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Duany in Vancouver

  The debate on Vancouver’s lack of iconic architecture does seem to be heating up.  Good timing, then, by The…
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Jan. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

B.C. Place Redux

From a glance at the headlines in the newspaper boxes, the B.C. Place replacement story has legs. PT reader Ron…
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Jan. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

Grand Opening: Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park

I predicted a few months ago that the new sculpture park on the Seattle waterfront may be the next best…
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Jan. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Resurrection in Saudi Arabia

Go out and get a copy of the Saturday, January 13th Globe and Mail.  There’s a story in it that…
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Jan. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Why we love Portland

You’ll know the bicycle is being taken seriously as a mode of transportation when Vancouver has a map like this –…
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Jan. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Link-up: Beyond Robson

PT reader Dan F recommends the Beyond Robson blog: “a worthy endeavor that could use some more press.”  If you…
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Jan. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

Fewer Rules, Less Mediocrity? Don't Count on it

PT reader Timothy Thomas writes in: Lisa Rochon hits the nail on its monotonous little head. Finally, after five years,…
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Jan. 12, 2007 / Gordon Price

Stanley Park Ambivalence

Don Buchanan cycled through the park a few days after the first big windstorm and caught this shot of the…
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Jan. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Future of B.C. Place

What to do with this concrete white elephant? [And why isn’t there ever any accountability for those who promoted and…
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Jan. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

Marshmallow Unbound

This just in today from Paul Krueger, a planner at City Hall, who got this shot from the roof at…
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Jan. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

We're in the Green

ArchNewsNow.com – a daily e-newsletter indispensible for those into architecture – has a nice piece on the American Institute of…
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Jan. 10, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

More evidence, here in The Independent, that the passivity which characterizes our current attitude to climate change is dissipating fast…

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