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Mar. 15, 2013 / Gordon Price

Meme of the Day: "Climate Disruption Tax"

From desmogblog: Here’s a term that bears repeating: climate disruption tax. What is a climate disruption tax? It’s the cost…
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Mar. 14, 2013 / Gordon Price

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

Foreign Investment in Vancouver’s Real Estate Market Still some seats available for this free panel discussion – but best to…
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Mar. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Charts by Todd Litman that explain so much

Eric Jaffe does a nice summary of some recent work by Victoria’s Todd Littman, in Atlantic Cities here. Like this:…
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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. 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. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Jumping the shark in Azerbaijan

Speaking of excess (below), Trump may be synonymous with over-the-top urban design and popular-culture excess, but he’s small fry compared to Ibrahim Ibrahimov, the…
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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. 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. 24, 2013 / Gordon Price

Department of Irony: Cause and Effects, and Causes

It’s getting easier to find events and images that capture the inherent irony of industry, particularly those connected to fossil…
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Jan. 23, 2013 / Gordon Price

2012: Car ownership busts the $10,000 bar

For years the estimate of how much it costs for the average Canadian car has been hovering below the $10,000…
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Jan. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

Articles of the Day: Is road pricing realistic?

Yup. To our south, it’s almost here: Washington, Oregon consider mileage-based road tax Once the Oregon Legislature gets down to business…
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Jan. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Bikeways for Bottom Lines: The Portland experience

From peopleforbikes.org. Not long ago, in the dark days of auto-only transportation planning, a property manager that urged the city…
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Jan. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

Wonk Charts: Best of 2012 (Canada adjusted)

The Washington Post “asked professional wonks — economists, political scientist, politicians and more — to  see what graphs and charts…
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Jan. 03, 2013 / Gordon Price

Article of the Day: Maintain state’s transportation network with a carbon tax

From Seattle’s major newspaper: Op-ed: Maintain state’s transportation network with a carbon tax … Unfortunately, we don’t just have a…

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