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Oct. 24, 2006 / Gordon Price

Kids in the city

Now Seattle, like Portland, is wondering whether it’s possible to raise children downtown.  The Post-Intelligencer explored the issue in this article:…
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Oct. 23, 2006 / Gordon Price

RATIOS

I just came across this: There’s a rule of thumb that a building is considered attractively slender if it has…
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Oct. 23, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Stroll

When I moved to Vancouver in 1978, the English Bay Seawall ended at the Aquatic Centre. The path itself was…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Baby has landed

Ephrem Cheng sent in this shot from the shores of False Creek:…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

Quote of the Day

From the opening episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: MATT We make some budget cuts, we shoot in…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

Mid-century Modern

I live in a 1957 highrise in the West End – as mid-century modern as you can get.  And I…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

A Heavy Load

Paul Krueger, now a planner with the City of Vancouver, sent a new report from the States on the link…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

The gap between leaders in Europe and North America on the issue of climate change is staggering. British Prime Minister…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

Perfect Days

This is a perfect time for photography: crisp light, gold highlights, sidelighting by the sun, fog banks for filters.  In…
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Oct. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

The End of "Suburbia"

I’m back!  Great trip to LA and Minneapolis (more about the former in an upcoming Price Tags – www.pricetags.ca)  In…
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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

W Memories

Ephrem Cheng sent in this evocative shot of Woodwards – before the blast.…
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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

What's the Difference ….

What’s the difference between Barcelona and Vancouver?  Here’s a comparison of our rapid-transit systems to the same scale:              You can…
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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

Sound Familiar?

From Civic Strategies (worth subscribing to): How the Wheels Came Off a Highway Proposal When a local highway authority proposed…
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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

From today’s Sun: Another 7,000 kilometres of coastline in the Atlantic provinces, British Columbia and western Arctic are said to…

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