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Feb. 06, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

94 Rentals Replace Strip Mall

Broadway & Alma, northwest corner, is the proposed location of a new rental building proposed by Westbank.  The site is currently…
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Feb. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Gordon Price on "Civic Politics Over the Last Half Century"

Last year I received an invitation (thanks, Bruce Watson!) to speak to the Vancouver Historical Society.  We chose a nice…
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Feb. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Chinatown, High Density Development and Why This Matters

This article by Wanyee Li in Metro News gets to the nub of a vital issue for one of the oldest,…
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Feb. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Call for Papers-Walk21 Calgary

  If it is not already on your calendar it should be-Walk21, the international conference series about all things walking…
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Feb. 01, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Housing those Growing Booming Seniors

The New York Times  notes that every day for the next 19 years 10,000 people in the United States will…
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Jan. 30, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Movable Modular Affordable Housing

Shelter is a basic human need. Here in Vancouver, the single family home (with white picket fence and two Buicks…
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Jan. 27, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Mixed Neighbourhood

Ontario and 2nd Avenue.…
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Jan. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 14 – Discovered Spaces and Real Estate

Though the viaduct described below ends after it crosses the vastness of Av Libertador (one of those multi-lane arterials which…
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Jan. 25, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

False Creek Flats Preview/Overview

Postmedia outlet the Vancouver Sun previews material to be shown at tonight’s open house for this planning process. Date and…
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Jan. 24, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Federal Bucks for Housing

As the Federal Liberals get set to publish their 2017 budget, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM — 2,000 members…
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Jan. 20, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Selling a Strata

Interesting look at the process of winding up a strata corporation and selling its land. The 80% vote is a…
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Jan. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Going, going, gone….Mega Mall Sold for $100.00

Many thanks to Scot Bathgate who sent this story of the 1.1 million square foot “Galleria” mega mall at Pittsburgh Mills in…
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Jan. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File: Making Polynesian Floating Islands designed in San Francisco

The BBC reports on a project we’d all like to work on-Polynesia has signed an agreement with the Seasteading Institute of…
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Jan. 19, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Land For Density

If we want more density and less sprawl, where will the land come from? Re-zoning exclusively single-family home space is…

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