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Nov. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

From Carbon to Croydon: 21st Century Indulgences

Last month, I flew to Queensland, Australia, to address a planning conference, there to speak about the topics of our…
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Nov. 02, 2012 / Gordon Price

Balancing Value and Expectations: Metro Finance Symposium

Metro Vancouver Regional Finance Symposium .. Balancing Value and Expectations November 28, 2012 8:30am – 3:30pm Hilton Hotel 6083 McKay…
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Oct. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Not what you think: surprising items from today’s news

VANCOUVER SECOND MOST TAX-COMPETITIVE CITY IN WORLD Among the top 55 major international cities, Vancouver is ranked the second most…
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Sep. 27, 2012 / Gordon Price

Metro Meetings: Energy Efficiency and Regional Prosperity

From Metro Vancouver: BC Hydro has been driving its award-winning Power Smart program for over two decades now, and it…
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Sep. 18, 2012 / Gordon Price

Perverse Priorities: Where we’re spending our money – and where we’re not

In a few weeks, B.C. will be officially opening the widest bridge in the world.  Which will connect to a…
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Sep. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Rise of WalkUPs and the Fall of Sprawl

There are few better than Chris Leinberger (quoted in the post immediately below) at coming up with clever coinage.  His latest?…
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Sep. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

What developers and investors really think about transit

They like it – a lot. In the current issue of UrbanLand, members of Urban Land Institute’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)…
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Sep. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

Carbon Talks and Carbon Thoughts

CarbonTalks at SFU asked two dozen thought leaders in government, business, academia and the non-profit sector what they thought about…
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Aug. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Too high housing prices? It ain’t only in Canada

Kiwi issue too: The Economist magazine this month rated New Zealand’s home prices as 66 percent overvalued when compared to rents,…
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Jul. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Dead Aim: Marohn on Engineering

I go through a lot of items in a day, as you might have noticed, and select what I think…
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Jul. 17, 2012 / Gordon Price

Suburban notes from all over

Toronto: Location Matters: Redefining Living in the Suburbs and the City RBC/Pembina Institute study shows affordability and easy access to…
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Jul. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

“The best climate policy in the world ” is in B.C.

The opening to a New York Times op-ed: ON Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better:…
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Jun. 14, 2012 / Gordon Price

Marohn: Three Generations of the Suburban Experiment

Charles Marohn’s latest in Better! Cities & Towns: .   The first generation of the Suburban Experiment — let’s say…
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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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