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May. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Vanishing Vancouver: Insights a la Kluckner

Michael Kluckner, author of Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years, spoke to a full house at the Vancouver Historical Society…
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May. 18, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: “Transit, transit, transit”

Bob Rennie at the UDI: Rennie said there were about 19,000 condo sales in Metro Vancouver in 2011,  and that…
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May. 02, 2012 / Gordon Price

Kluckner – On the evolution of the Vancouver apartment building

In celebration of Michael Kluckner’s new book – Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years – I asked him to send…
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May. 01, 2012 / Gordon Price

Evolution of the Vancouver House

From the Vancouver Heritage Foundation: THE EVOLUTION OF THE VANCOUVER HOUSE Coinciding with the release of his new book Vanishing…
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Apr. 24, 2012 / Gordon Price

A Treehouse gone Viral

Pictures of this treehouse at Whistler are popping up all over the web: From the Daily Mail: It took months…
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Apr. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Decline of Exurbia?

Other posts have observed that post-2008, the American Exurbs have not only lost their glitz but perhaps their viability.  Now,…
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Apr. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Arithmetic: (1,200 x 40 %) x 3

Another piece on the “IKEA Town” in East London: On a brownfield site in East London, a division of the…
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Apr. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

Geller in Amsterdam

Michael Geller reports in on his study tour of Amsterdam, with observations that run the gamut from housing of all…
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Apr. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Want to rent in Jane Jacobs’s neighbourhood?

What with Jane’s Walk coming up, I was struck by this item in Sam Hall Kaplan’s piece on the latest…
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Apr. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

Just up: Affordable Housing Task Force Reports

From Michael Geller: My report, and a number of other materials related to the Mayor’s Task Force are now on…
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Apr. 03, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Missing Middle: New housing types for a changing city

When I was visiting Portland regularly, I stayed in an exquisite streetcar neighbourhood called Irvington.  (Map here.) Built out in…
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Mar. 30, 2012 / Gordon Price

Shiller: “Never in our lifetime …”

He’s talking about a rebound in U.S. suburban housing prices: Referring to Richard Florida’s book The Great Reset, Shiller said…
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Mar. 29, 2012 / Gordon Price

Millennials terrifying home builders!

From Slate:  … boomers and millennials are changing the definition of the American dream and, in the process, have created…
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Mar. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Scott Bernstein – Tonight at SFU – on Location Efficiency

Progress Lost, Progress Redefined, Progress Regained—How Location Efficiency Performance Measures Are Being Used to Achieve Economic Security Scott Bernstein, President…

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