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Oct. 02, 2006 / Gordon Price

Woodwards Rollover

Just in case you miss the update below, you must click here to see Yun Lam Li’s video of the…

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Oct. 02, 2006 / Gordon Price

Pretty and Pointless

Here’s what a road map of Richmond looks like when every kind of street is given a different colour. Crescents…

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Oct. 02, 2006 / Gordon Price

Urban Design in Action

Problem: a couple of badly sited Hydro boxes in front of Elsie Roy School near the Roundhouse. Scot Hein,…

Oct. 01, 2006 / Gordon Price

Another Good Question

What happened to car alarms? I may be totally wrong on this – especially since we moved to a quieter…

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Sep. 30, 2006 / Gordon Price

Go Boom, Fall Down

Woodwards, a homegrown department store, was once the anchor of the Downtown East Side. When it closed, it took the economic…

Sep. 29, 2006 / Gordon Price

Good Question

What happened to the buskers? A few years ago, Robson Street was awash in musicians, and not just on weekends. …

Sep. 27, 2006 / Gordon Price

GVRD Fights Back on Gateway

It’s not clear yet whether this motion from the Greater Vancouver Regional District on elements of the Gateway Project –…

Sep. 25, 2006 / Gordon Price

Mutual Admirerers

In my case, the Vancouver-Portland love-affair is literal. I married an Oregonian. But lots of Portlanders and Vancouverites have a…

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Sep. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

It used to be that new information on climate change came in every month or so. Now it’s daily, and…

Sep. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

Finally!

Back in 1989, in my second term on City Council, I vividly remember the week when James Hansen spoke before…

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Sep. 20, 2006 / Gordon Price

Viewpoint: Granville Island Yellow

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Sep. 19, 2006 / Gordon Price

Contested congestion 2

Stockholm extra — more analysis of the congestion-charge vote from Streetsblog: On Sunday, residents of Stockholm, Sweden voted to continue…

Sep. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

CONTESTED CONGESTION CHARGE

Transportation planners around the world were waiting with anticipation to see how the electorate in Stockholm would vote on whether…

Sep. 15, 2006 / Gordon Price

Another (Alaskan) Way

Vancouver planner Jeffrey Patterson sends along a media release from the Congress for the New Urbanism, which has decided to…

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