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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

George Poulos: "Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver" – 3

The third section of George Poulos’s essay: Moving Towards the Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver. [Part 1 here]   [Part 2 here]…
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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Beautiful Empty Homes of Vancouver

While Ireland may have ghost estates (below), Vancouver has its “beautiful empty homes.”  Vancity Buzz reported on a web site of that title here.…
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Sep. 04, 2014 / Gordon Price

George Poulos: "Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver" – 2

The second section of George Poulos’s essay: Moving Towards the Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver [Part 1 here] . Investing…
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Sep. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ghost Estates of Ireland

China gets all the ghostly coverage when it comes to incompete, abandoned or empty cities.  At a smaller scale, Ireland…
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Sep. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Barcelona 31: The Diagonal (6) – 22@BCN

What is 22@ ? First of all, 22@ is a bit of a visual joke.  “22a” was the zoning designation…
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Aug. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Lecture and Panel: Vancouver in the 21st Century – Sep 24

. ANDY YAN: VANCOUVER IN THE 21ST CENTURY .  Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 7:00 PM Where: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Goldcorp…
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Aug. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

Future Present: The History, Problems and Possibilities of the Canada Line

Kenneth Chan, in Vancity Buzz, asks a question we’ve all wondered about when standing on a crowded platform in the…
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Aug. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

Automation: "So it goes with autos, so it goes for everything"

So says CGP Grey about the impact of automation on employment in “Humans Need Not Apply – a discussion not…
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Aug. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Fraser Games 4: Repetition Wins

Business in Vancouver ran this story back in June: Vancouver has the world’s second most competitive taxes for business: KPMG…
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Aug. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Fraser Games – 3: “So even though that’s not true, why do you think that is?”

That’s one of my favourite lines from the Jon Stewart show.  Some things are so widely believed that, even when…
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Aug. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Fraser Games – 2: Infortainment Clickbait for a gullible media

YVRLutyens posts a comment below that deserves a higher profile – namely here – regarding the Fraser Institute’s report on…
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Aug. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Fraser Games – 1: Choosing your Stats

A good illustration of power of selective measurement: The headline (from Business in Vancouver): Canadians spend more on taxes than they…
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Aug. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Quote: The 20-Minute City

Keep this in mind when the referendum debate turns to economic competitiveness. The tech sector means 80,000 jobs for B.C.…
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Aug. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

“The Suburbs Will Die” – A Profile of Charles Marohn

Kind of a deathly theme today … Further to dead malls noted in The Daily Scot below, here’s a profile…

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