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Jan. 01, 2022 / Gordon Price

Puzzle Pic: Answer to “Where is this?”

A separated bike route.  Where is it? Guest got it: It’s Seattle – Second and Vine.  But at first glance,…
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Dec. 28, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 4 -Vancouverism in Los Angeles

This I did not expect.  Driving down La Cienega Boulevard at night, a block of lights in the distance rose…
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Dec. 28, 2021 / Gordon Price

Sooo Canadian: The Outrage of the Ploughed Bikepath

I’m grateful to live in a city where, despite all that’s happening around us, we have the luxury of getting…
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Dec. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

Wishing You the Best of All Possible Holidays*

* Under the circumstances. All of us at Viewpoint Vancouver wish you the best for the season and the coming…
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Dec. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

This Year’s WALL: ShowBoat

The WALL at CBC Plaza is a large format artists’ platform made possible through a unique partnership between VHF and…
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Dec. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

Kluckner: On the Question of Racial Zoning in Vancouver

Further to the comment made by historian Michael Kluckner to this post on racism and zoning in Vancouver, here is…
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Dec. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 3: Discovering the Missing Middle

If there was a time when the California Dream seemed to match up with reality for most of its people,…
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Dec. 09, 2021 / Gordon Price

Racism and Single-Family Zoning in BC

I admit it: I get a little thrill when seeing something I wrote being referenced elsewhere – even when the…
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Dec. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 2: Wilshire Stories

To understand Los Angeles, it helps to understand Wilshire Boulevard.   The boulevard is a 25-km east-west arterial that transects…
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Dec. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Grand Bargain in Action: Vancouver and Seattle

Here are examples of how two cities absorbed population and housing growth over the last decade – illustrating the de-facto…
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Nov. 30, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations – 1: A Different Kind of Sprawl

We all know Los Angeles even if we’ve never been there.  Though movies, TV and theme parks, from LaLa Land …
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Nov. 29, 2021 / Gordon Price

Heritage Vancouver: The Filipino Food Hub

From Heritage Vancouver: Listening Room: The Filipino Community and food hub at Joyce-Collingwood   A rezoning proposal for 5163-5187 Joyce…
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Nov. 22, 2021 / Gordon Price

Global Civic Policy Society presents Urban Lunch

Thursday, November 25 Noon to 1:00 PM via Zoom Danny Oleksiuk, cofounder of Abundant Housing Vancouver, and Dale McClanaghan, social…
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Nov. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Flood of ’48 and the Lessons We Learned

What you can see from the flood coverage in the valley, at least in some of the images, is that…

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