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Dec. 14, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Development in Western Canada – Board of Trade Panel

 From the Vancouver Board of Trade: Real Estate Panel 2013: Western Canadian Urban Development Tuesday, January  22, 2013  07:15 – 10:00…
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Dec. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

Funding TransLink: Thomas Beyer Has a Little List

The following email has been filtering into my inbox all day – and it’s worthy of posting in a slightly…
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Dec. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Taxing like a utility: cable, phone, electricity – and roads

Why some form of road pricing is inevitable: “Take a state like Rhode Island,” Foy said. “I-95 is falling into…
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Dec. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

We Beat Baghdad! And other infrastructure stories

Of course, so did everyone else: Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality…
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Nov. 26, 2012 / Gordon Price

Post-Motordom Tourism: the American Effect

Urban Futures has some dismal news in its latest report on Travel and Tourism in B.C.: Over the past 14…
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Nov. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Time Travel: The New Westminster Experience

Further to the post immediately below, here’s an interesting set of maps that nicely illustrate the difference between transit and…
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Nov. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

ULI’s Emerging Trends and Real Estate Outlook – Nov 27

From the Urban Land Institute (BC): Find out where the real estate market is heading in 2013 at ULI BC’s…
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Nov. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Sustainability in High Places

In this case: The Vancouver Club – where the elite meet to eat.  And what they eat is veggies and…
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Nov. 20, 2012 / Gordon Price

Comparing Seattle and Vancouver: Why do we prosper?

A planner friend sent Frank Ducote an excerpt from Michael Luis’s new book, 21st Century City – Seattle’ Fifty Year Journey…
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Nov. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

Bring Your Boomers: Power and Energy – Dec 11

An intergenerational forum organized by CCPA and Gen Why Media as part of the Climate Justice Project’s Youth Outreach initiative.…
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Nov. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Outtakes from an Outlook: CMHC’s annual housing confab

This is the 15th year for Canada Mortgage and Housing’s annual look at the state of the housing market in…
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Nov. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Systems and urban systems: What it means for the new bottom line

Urban Systems is a homegrown consulting firm (and, disclosure, sponsor of some SFU City Program lectures) that provides strategic planning, engineering and urban design…
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Nov. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

Can conservatives support a carbon tax?

Apparently.  An American Republican will discuss the possibility in a talk in Vancouver onNovember 15.…
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Nov. 08, 2012 / Gordon Price

Positively 4th: The why, who and how of a vibrant street-retail district

Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith explains why cheaper rents, fewer malls and cluster theory have added heat to one of Kitsilano’s hottest spots – especially…

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