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Mar. 06, 2013 / Gordon Price

"A building bonanza unprecedented in human history"

We all enjoy a good Chinese Ghost City story.  Here’s Sixty Minutes’s version, by way of the Shanghaiist: . Ignore…
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Mar. 05, 2013 / Gordon Price

How the Italians Do it: Furniture design for 400 square feet

Michael Alexander notes: This is straight product advertising, but the ingenuity is breathtaking.     . This level of functionality and…
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Mar. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

"Foreign Investment in Vancouver’s Real Estate Market" – Mar 20

Reserve a seat now for a panel discussion on: Foreign Investment in Vancouver’s Real Estate Market . In Vancouver, there…
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Feb. 22, 2013 / Gordon Price

Redesigning Communities: It won't be just for hipsters.

Unless they’re over 65. Here’s Gordon Harris’s take from BC Business: The good news is that redesigning communities to accommodate…
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Feb. 21, 2013 / Gordon Price

Hong Kong life in 40 square feet

From PetaPixel: … the human rights organization Society for Community Organization recently commissioned a series of photographs showing what a…
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Feb. 01, 2013 / Gordon Price

Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city

What more is there to say: Kent Larson explains how. .…
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Jan. 31, 2013 / Gordon Price

Chart of the Day: "China Growth Sets Vancouver Home Prices"

Appropriately, the Bloomberg ‘Chart of the Day’: The CHART OF THE DAY shows the relationship between growth in China’s gross…
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Jan. 31, 2013 / Gordon Price

Housing Justice Dialogue

Housing Justice Dialogue #1: Films Created by Young Artists on the Housing Crisis in Metro Vancouver . In the fall…
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Jan. 29, 2013 / Gordon Price

Article of the Day: "Raining on the suburban housing recovery parade"

Seems appropriate to follow the video below with Charles Marohn‘s analysis of the U.S. housing ‘recovery’  in Better! Cities and Towns:…
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Jan. 23, 2013 / Gordon Price

The Dutch Do It: Constructing a house with a 3D printer

I don’t know which is more amazing: (a) Building a house modelled on a Möbius strip. (b) Doing it with…
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Jan. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Article of the Day: “Servants Welcome, Roommates Barred”

Another piece by Alan Durning, Executive Director of the Sightline, as a follow up to his previous item in this…
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Jan. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

Free lecture: Pocket Neighbourhoods – January 23

Jake Fry at Smallworks Studios and Laneway Housing sends along this invitation: . As part of our ongoing work to promote…
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Jan. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Launch: The Housing Justice Survey

Launch of Housing Justice Survey: January 8, 2013 on PlaceSpeak www.placespeak.com/HousingJustice Many of us live in housing conditions that are…
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Jan. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

A Starter House with a Difference

Michael Kluckner has been observing an interesting change in his east-side neighbourhood: It is the conversion/modernization of one of the…

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