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Oct. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Thoughts on ‘Occupy Wall Street’: Jay Smooth

Mr. Smooth is very sharp.   Good observations on the current conversation.  …
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Sep. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

A Sign of Change on Hastings Street

From a distance, another Development Permit Application sign on the one-hundred block of West Hastings: Take a closer read.  It’s…
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Aug. 31, 2011 / Gordon Price

Driving over the edge

Mark Hinshaw, Seattle architect and critic, penned a piece for Crosscut on Sick suburbs, expiring exurbs, with this interesting observation:…
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Aug. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

Connections: What They Don’t Say

A missive from my financial manager: … investor confidence was rattled by the partisan wrangling that took place over the…
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Aug. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Southern Strategy: Gas taxes and Langley

Nathan Pachal, in his South Fraser Blog brings a needed perspective to the gas-tax debate: Nobody likes paying taxes. Every…
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Aug. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Freeing Taxis: Unleashing cabs to boost affordable, green transport

From the Sightline Institute, on a subject always guaranteed to generate, um, various viewpoints: What if the Northwest’s cities legally…
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Aug. 04, 2011 / Gordon Price

Downsizing 2.0

Two different perspectives on downsizing: (1) Franca Temolo-Jones in Vancouver: We went from a 2,400-square-foot home in the heart of the…
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Aug. 03, 2011 / Gordon Price

What does the Pride Parade tell us?

Or, in this case, Telus: It used to be that only the bars and clubs floated dancing boys, disco and…
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Jul. 02, 2011 / Gordon Price

China’s Ghost Cities – the video

Australia’s SBS does a story on “an unsettling and almost unending vista of emptiness …  A property bubble like which we’ve never seen.”…
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Jun. 27, 2011 / Gordon Price

A Small Bar in Temperance Lane

Scot Bathgate: “It’s amazing how most of the biggest moves in Urban Design come from simply changing the city bylaws.”…
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Jun. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Monday at rush hour on Georgia Street

This is Georgia Street on Monday evening – the entire of right-of-way from Library to Post Office – as fans…
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May. 31, 2011 / Gordon Price

Generation Rent

Here’s what the Guardian is saying about the younger generation’s attitude to homeownership: In a survey of 8,000 people aged…
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Mar. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Strip Mall world – Too big to fail?

This essay – Wal-Mart.  Too Big to Fail – by Charles Marohn in New Urban Network raises the basic question about…
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Feb. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

Panic and climate change

Now that the Liberals have chosen a new leader, the Gordon Campbell era is almost over – 27 years, from…

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