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Feb. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Olympic Village reborn?

Frances Bula calls it “the strangest travel piece ever” – here in the New York Times.  Judge for yourself. Actually, it…
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Feb. 13, 2011 / Gordon Price

Weather Retort

Saturday, Granville Street, on the first anniversary of the Winter Olympics, looked like this: Last year, about the same time,…
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Dec. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

30 most dynamic cities

As measured in the growth of its income and employment, according to the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.  Istanbul is first.  Montreal is…
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Dec. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the heat

Two stories by Jeff Lee in the Sun worth emphasizing: Olympic Village’s heat-from-sewage utility a monetary success Vancouver’s sewage heat-generated utility…
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Nov. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

Capital Pan

There’s been a lot of this sort of argument recently: I thought of how this city, my city, puts more…
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Aug. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Frontiers and Foreclosures

Frontiers is a series of photographs that document houses on the forefront of interaction with the economy and the environment.…
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Aug. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Dream or Nightmare?

Don Buchanan sends along an article from New Geography: Vancouver: Planner’s Dream, Middle Class Nightmare. With a reiteration of familiar arguments,…
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Aug. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Streetcars – The Missing Link

Streetcars: The Missing Link? brings together decisions makers, academics and community leaders to explore, discuss and debate the potential role…
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Aug. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

David Sucher critiques the Olympic Village

David Sucher, author of City Comforts and Seattle urban blogger, has done an intriguing critique of the Olympic Village.  Though…
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Jul. 30, 2010 / Gordon Price

Bike-sharing in London, Jobs in Canada

This just in from Ronald Chen: I just learned that London launched its own public bike system: Barclays Cycle Hire. …
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Jul. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Michael Lewis – 2

Another quote from Michael Lewis, in addition to the one below, also in The Big Short: The ability of Wall Street…
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Jul. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Phony War

Ah, the blissful days of an approaching August.  Like  the long Edwardian summer that preceded World War I, it seems…
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Jul. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Board of Trade goes viral

This morning, I already had two messages of this note from Jan Pezarro: During the 2010 Winter Games Metro Vancouver…
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Jun. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Gold for Green

I referenced this article – originally published by the Urban Land Institute in its excellent journal “Urban Land” – on…

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