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May. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

How will bikeshare perform in a post-covid city?

Maybe pretty well. From The Cityfix: Reviving Bike Sharing as a Reliable, Low-Carbon Mobility Mode Unlike public transport, the pandemic…
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May. 01, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Toronto’s Jane’s Walk Festival Kicks Off with Jan Gehl in a Free Webinar

Jan Gehl needs no introduction as the author of  many books including “Cities for People” and an architect who is…
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Apr. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Davie Queue Lane

We’re going to need a list of descriptors for the different kind of lanes that are being improvised to respond…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

How do we support Public Transit in the Post-Covid World?

  The gifted and talented CBC videographer Uytae Lee has produced  a compelling short video about the crisis facing public…
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Apr. 29, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Car Commercials Cozy Up in these Covid Times

Don’t doubt for a minute that the automobile industry is already strategizing how to sell vehicles in the post Covid…
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Apr. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Dr. Bonnie Henry’s most important point today

It was in the Sun‘s lead article today, but it might get missed: There were just 11 new cases reported…
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Apr. 28, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

How Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Impact Density?

I  There’s lots of discussion on what impacts  Covid-19 will have on the way we will live in the coming…
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Apr. 28, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Boston University Free Webinar~ Rebuilding Resilient Cities

Boston University’s Centre for Public Health has an interesting panel speaking Thursday on how cities will respond to the Covid-19…
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Apr. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Frozen City: Tableau

Murals on a shuttered Granville Street. April 26, 2 pm…
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Apr. 27, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~How will Post-Covid Communities Reboot?

Urban Logiq has a great webinar series and this Tuesday they have a panel discussing how cities are going to…
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Apr. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

Frozen City: Idling Times

A two-minute layover on the No. 7 Nanaimo.  Waiting for time to catch up with the schedule. The buses have…
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Apr. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Where It Began: the Chilco Cul-de-Sac

This is the view that inspires me. I not only appreciate the privilege, I appreciate the irony.  I’m an urbanist…
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Apr. 24, 2020 / Gordon Price

Viral Transformation: Los Angeles

A lovely ten-panel reflection in the NY Times on how Los Angeles has changed in the spring of the virus. …
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Apr. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

‘Transit is contagious. Cars are clean. Gas is cheap. Density is dangerous. Let’s drive!’

  PT: As predicted, the rationale for more driving (and priorizing road space for it) is underway – this one…

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