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Aug. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Creative Living Housing Tour – Sep 14

. Where does Vancouver’s creative community live and work? The Laboratory of Housing Alternatives is organizing a Housing Tour on…
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Aug. 28, 2013 / Gordon Price

Jobs Jar: Instructor on Housing Policy

The SFU Urban Studies Program is seeking a Sessional Instructor to teach the following course on Wednesday evenings (5:30-9:20pm) at…
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Aug. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

From Gezi Park to Grandview

Patrick Condon makes the connection: … closer to home and with none of the street demonstrations but with much of…
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Aug. 13, 2013 / Gordon Price

Is there a place for the urban village?

Michael Kluckner makes the case for this: . . Kerrisdale is a good example of an urban village: an east-west street…
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Aug. 13, 2013 / Gordon Price

Dept. of Irony: The Inescapable Boomers

The Wall Street Journal reports on how retiring boomers are choosing to relocate among the young and hip: Hip urban…
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Jul. 19, 2013 / Gordon Price

Life in the flood tunnels of Vegas

A Daily Mail illustrated story on how, underneath this: . … a thousand people live like this: . … like,…
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Jul. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

"Unlocking Home:" The latest e-book from Alan Durning

Last March, PT posted Suite Vancouver – articles by Alan Durning of the Sightline Institute, detailing the history of secondary suites…
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Jul. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

A dozen reasons why the suburbs can be saved

Robert Steuteville in Better! Cities & Towns: Arthur C. Nelson in Reshaping Metropolitan America made the demographic case that redevelopment…
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Jun. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

The (Un)economics of Motordom

From Matt Foulger:  There’s a fascinating story at Atlantic Cities right now about some very compelling new data:   An exhaustive…
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Jun. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

Urban Development Trend from Vancouver: Less Elbow Room

Another story – again in the Wall Street Journal, again sparked by work from the Sightline Institute – that explores a…
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May. 10, 2013 / Gordon Price

Vintage Vancouver: The West End, Kenneth Gardner and a vanished era

Vancity Buzz and the Vancouver Heritage Foundation have partnered on a new series – Vintage Vancouver – starting with, appropriately, the West…
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May. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Housing affordability: Auckland looks to Vancouver

In the New Zealand Herald, columnist Brian Rudman finds that when it comes to affordability, Auckland and Vancouver are “bizarrely alike”: Mayor…
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May. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Must-read: Dusting Demographia and the most-unaffordable-city myth

Jim Sutherland, in Vancouver Magazine, uncovers the origins of the distorted meme generated by a right-wing pundit … If (you’ve) heard once, (you’ve) heard a…
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May. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

Falling densities in rising cities

Felix Salmon explores a phenomenon noted by Paul Krugman: why are urban population densities dropping in the States, even though…

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