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Oct. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Density and Transit: A Pre-emptive Strike by Adriane Carr

She got there first: MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCTOBER 4, 2016 Councillor Carr Moves to Oppose Use…
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Oct. 04, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Heather Lands — City Planning

In what I see as an introduction to the big one (Jericho), City of Vancouver has this on tap to…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Playing Monopoly in Vancouver

Ian picked this up from Rachael Ashe’s site, Canvas to the Imagination   Last week these small red houses began popping…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Cascadia Tech Hub-The Next Big Thing?

The New York Times suggests that smoother immigration policies and Vancouver’s ambitious technological hopes can spark a “Cascadia Innovation Corridor”, noting that…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The newest Vancouver Suburb an Ocean Away

The new Vancouver suburb as reported by Kerry Gold in the  Globe and Mail last Friday is not in British Columbia,…
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Oct. 02, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Granny-sitting and Free Rent in London

The BBC has used a new term- after a web-based advertisement went up looking for a “granny-sitter” for a spry 93-year-old grandmother…
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Oct. 01, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Gil Kelley Speaks

An interview with Gil Kelley by Naoibh O’Connor in the Vancouver Courier. Q:  Obviously affordability is one of the key…
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Sep. 30, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Housing Solutions II (the "D" Word)

UBC Economist Tom Davidoff has some thoughts about how to deal with housing unaffordability.  His ideas involve increasing density within the…
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Sep. 30, 2016 / Gordon Price

A solution to overheated housing? In Vancouver?

From The Guardian: Has Vancouver found the solution to a super-heated housing market? There is a city which is suffering…
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Sep. 29, 2016 / Gordon Price

Almost least surprising Vancouver headline ever

Really – “in the world”? Once again, Vancouver is top of the list.  From Business in Vancouver: And yet, we…
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Sep. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Tsawwassen Mills Mega Mall-Last of its Kind?

In a not very surprising article in the Vancouver Sun, Chuck Chiang notes that Industry observers agree: The 1.2-million-sq.-ft. Tsawwassen Mills could…
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Sep. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

An evening with Gil Kelley-General Manager of Planning, Urban Design, and Sustainability

The Urbanarium held an event last night at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre playhouse where Gil Kelley, the new General Manager…
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Sep. 27, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: London and Gentrification

From The Guardian: The bubble that turned into a tide: how London got hooked on gentrification Earlier this month the…
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Sep. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: How Seattle should avoid Vancouver's crisis

We seem to have missed this when it first came out in Seattle’s “The Stranger.”  Fortunately, Durning picked it up.…

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