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May. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

Taking Possession of the Streets with Music

On the weekend of the sixth week of the pandemic shutdown, the weather was warm, the caseloads were dropping, and…
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May. 13, 2020 / Gordon Price

It’s a Thing: Flow Streets, Slow Streets, just not Closed Streets

PT: Originally published in April.  The video is one of the best so far, from the initial use of the…
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May. 13, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Lessons From the Three Waves of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic & Vancouver’s Response

When the Covid Crisis is over and we are in the After Times there are going to be some major…
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May. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Message to Vancouver

Click for video: On Granville  …
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May. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: Reopening Vancouver – May 20

Reopening Vancouver: People, Streets, Food & Cars How do we maintain safe physical distancing practices when enjoying the city? On…
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May. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Redesigned: The End of Rush Hours

  As a consequence of flattening the covid curve: … we’ll also have to flatten these curves: The hand-drawn chart…
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May. 12, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Covid-19 Self-Isolation & Calendar Fire Fighters

This is an image from Ken Ohrn who notes “This already seems like a relic of the Bad Days, now…
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May. 11, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dianna’s Diary: The poppies have lost their tiny minds

Dianna: Clearly no one has told the poppies along the Central Valley Greenway about social distancing and, honestly, I’m delighted.…
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May. 11, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Redesigned: What will be our most challenging urban transportation issue?

For urban centres, it will be this: (Click on title for answer.)…
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May. 11, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Physical Distancing Shopping Style~Bollards On Granville Street, Cooped Up on Commercial Drive, & Rueing about Robson

Historian and author John Atkin posted this image he took last Fall of the new work on downtown  Granville Street…
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May. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dianna’s Diary: Be Kind

And, just like that, we’re stepping into Phase 2. New sign on the seawall which sums up the rules. Sounds…
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May. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

Great Lawns of Vancouver – Wainborn

In the Spring of the Virus, blankets laid out on lazily on the grass, long afternoons, longer conversations, quiet picnics,…
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May. 08, 2020 / Gordon Price

Great Lawns of Vancouver – Sunset

Here’s the ‘great lawn’ at Sunset Beach:   Download the video –  Great Lawn.  It’s a study in the casual,…
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May. 06, 2020 / Gordon Price

Tour de Quarantine

Peter Ladner sends along Stage 1 with exciting footage of the Tour de Quarantine:   We need some footage from…

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