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Dec. 19, 2006 / Gordon Price

Shame and Guilt

Architectural critic Trevor Boddy celebrates the season of good cheer with another dump on the City in this Globe and…

Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

More Fire, More Gas

Don Potts has a quick reponse in the Sun today to Marc Jaccard’s column in the Saturday issue. (Potts is…

Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

"Civic Strategies" on urban poverty

One of my favourite e-newsletters is Civic Strategies: Every few weeks, about a dozen short, well-written blurbs, albeit with an…

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Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

What Happened?

How did the proposal for the Hotel Georgia tower go from this: To this: PT Reader Timothy Thomas speculates: Sadly, I…

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Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

3-D Vancouver

What would Downtown Vancouver look like if it were made out of jello? At last, you can see for yourself,…

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Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

Insights on Sightline

Fine piece on Alan Durning and the Sightline Institute in the current Seattle Times magazine. Here’s the whole article, and…

Dec. 17, 2006 / Gordon Price

Robson World Class? Not quite.

They’ll charge you the highest rents in Canada for retail space on Robson between Burrard and Bute. Expect to put…

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Dec. 17, 2006 / Gordon Price

Tram Fever Grips France

Paris is celebrating the opening of the new T3 route as part of its Metro tram network. Even the Germans are…

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Dec. 17, 2006 / Gordon Price

Go To: Cascadia Report

For those trying to keep up with business and politics in the Cascadia Region (Oregon, Washington and B.C.), Brad Meacham…

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Dec. 17, 2006 / Gordon Price

Go To: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Occasionally, I’ll recommend a blog or site to check out. The first: Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward’s blog. Alex, whose work is…

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Dec. 16, 2006 / Gordon Price

KATRINA MOMENTS

I think we just had a Katrina Moment. Weather so sudden, so severe, it scares you. The TV News called it the…

Dec. 16, 2006 / Gordon Price

Revenge of the Small

Author Karrie Jacobs – the keynote speaker at mid-October’s Affordable Housing by Design conference – has some nice things to…

Dec. 14, 2006 / Gordon Price

toronto the bad

Toronto Star urban-design critic Christopher Hume weighs in on one of his favourite topics: how bad TO’s planning process is…

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Dec. 14, 2006 / Gordon Price

Australia Burning

The worst drought in Australia’s recorded history continues – as does the annual mayhem of bushfire season. So regular an occurrence…

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