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May. 12, 2014 / Gordon Price

Crime scene: More beautiful theories mugged by brutal facts

From today’s NRU: The value of building permits in Vancouver has jumped dramatically in the first quarter of 2014, with…
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May. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

“Bye Bye, Barcelona” – A Differing View

Last month I posted this documentary:  .  . … and sent it off to a friend in Barcelona friend to view…
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May. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Olympic Village in Rio

Here’s what Rio aspires for the future of its athletes’ village after the 2016 games, as reported in UrbanLand: .…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Transit and Business: Attracting the Best and the Brightest

Here are Microsoft’s soon-t0-be new Vancouver offices  – basically on top of the Canada Line station, in the heart of the…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Bikes and Business: Attracting the Best and the Brightest

Ken Ohrn wonders: How does a hot tech company continue to attract the best and the brightest?  For certain, the answer…
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Apr. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

Warning 3 – Another tourist backlash in hipster neighbourhoods

From The Protocity: Even though it is hard to define this urban phantom, we can argue that the hipster is…
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Apr. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Best U.S. Neighbourhoods for Millennials

‘Cause even though it’s American, who can resist a real-estate listicle? .   And this has prices: . Twenty-four more…
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Apr. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Warning – 2: Olympics as War (Or, What Vancouver escaped)

Two years to go to the Rio Olympics, and as seems customary for the Summer Games, the bad news is…
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Apr. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Warning: What Vancouver should learn from Barcelona

In this case, the advice is not how to create great urban spaces or how to lever architecture and heritage…
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Apr. 25, 2014 / Gordon Price

Comparative Readings from America: Housing, development and rents

… in which to explore some parallels with Vancouver. From the New York Times: In High Gear New York City…
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Apr. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Survey, a Referendum and an Agenda: Links

From USA Today: More than half the adults between ages 18 and 34 questioned about transportation said they would consider…
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Apr. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Subject to Interpretation: The Environment Minister’s Earth Day Statement

Neil Salmond picked up on this: Environment Minister Mary Polak’s Earth Day Statement – with, he says, the sneaky rhetoric…
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Mar. 31, 2014 / Gordon Price

The End of the Region as we know it – 7: Weakening the ALR

Brendan Hurley makes the case for the Agricultural Land Reserve in The Straight: As the Agricultural Land Reserve enters its fifth decade,…
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Mar. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

“Worthwhile Canadian Initiative”

If you don’t know the joke in the head, it’s referenced here.  But the item below can be found in…

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