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Oct. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

NYT Op-Doc: A Short History of the Highrise

The highrise in Mud, Concrete and Glass in this New York Times Op-Doc in conjunction with Canada’s National Film Board:…
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Oct. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

The Real Cost of Suburbia

Rob Carrick in The Globe and Mail discusses cost numbers drawn up by David Hughes, a Toronto mortgage broker. You…
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Oct. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Housing + Sharing – Oct 22

The Laboratory of Housing Alternatives (LOHA) on Housing and Sharing is hosting an event that will focus on exploring how the…
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Oct. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

How to Measure a Healthy City

Here’s an actual formula, as developed by Don Luymes, the Manager of Community Planning for the City of Surrey: .…
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Oct. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

2013 Laneway House Tour – Oct 19

From the Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Seven lane homes open on the 2013 Laneway House Tour Does the densification of Vancouver…
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Oct. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Living Micro: Small suites from New York to Vancouver

A PBS Newshour feature on living in small spaces: . . As more people across the country are living alone,…
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Sep. 24, 2013 / Gordon Price

Kluckner on Gentrification – Oct 7

A Brief History of Gentrification in Vancouver October 7, 2013, 7:00 PM Free Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre…
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Sep. 19, 2013 / Gordon Price

Lessons from Long Island

Long Island – the suburban hinterland of New York City (map here) – was ground zero for the post-war housing…
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Sep. 19, 2013 / Gordon Price

The In-Between Highrise: Vancouver’s way of density

Tom Durning passed on this piece in The Guardian: High-rise living is the only way to protect the green belt –…
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Sep. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Florida’s Blasphemy: Rising wealth and declining homeownership

Richard Florida commits an act of blasphemy in Atlantic Cities: Why the U.S. Needs to Fall Out of Love With…
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Sep. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

Fantasy TOD: How Developers Market Transit

TOD is Transit-Oriented Development – a term used more in the States than here. Technically: “… a mixed-use residential and commercial…
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Sep. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Scout Series: “The Roof Over Your Head”

Scout magazine and the Vancouver Heritage Foundation have teamed up: Vancouver’s architecture is often difficult to distinguish as many of…
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Sep. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

Canada: A Suburban Nation … and its changing suburbs

Lots of coverage on the research of David Gordon, director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University.…
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Aug. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

What is the typical Canadian dwelling?

According to Doug Saunders at The Globe, it’s this: The dwelling that’s most Canadian, in its sheer numbers and popularity,…

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