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May. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Ventura perspective

A note came in from Rick Cole, the City Manager of Ventura – a small coastal community northwest of Los…
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May. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Looking back into the future

Here’s a column I wrote for Business in Vancouver, published in July 2001.  It’s my forecast for the built legacy…
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Apr. 30, 2010 / Gordon Price

Scarier than the PNE Rollercoaster

Ride the Vancouver condo market – and hold on!…
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Apr. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

“The most interesting story I’ve ever found”

There has been an extraordinary amount of good writing about the GFC – as the Australians term the ‘Global Financial…
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Apr. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver’s Green Gold

ULI’s Urban Land magazine has just published a piece on Vancouver’s Olympic transportation experience. Martin Zimmerman’s piece provides a remarkable…
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Apr. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

Portland comes to Dallas

It was a very Portland kind of thing to do in an inner Dallas neighbourhood: Citizens taking their streets back? …
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Apr. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Post-Game Analysis

Even before the Olympics were over, we at the SFU City Program knew it would be fascinating to get some…
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Apr. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Betting against the American Dream

Here’s a recommendation outside the usual Price Tags orbit – but this broadcast on National Public Radio in the States is…
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Apr. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Security Theatre

A post-Olympics conundrum. What is the difference between this: And this: The first is the LiveCity site downtown; the second…
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Mar. 29, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver on radio on the web

Among the interviews about Vancouver that I did during the Olympics, one was with Ian and Tonya Fitzpatrick, hosts of a…
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Mar. 01, 2010 / Gordon Price

Spring Break

Back on March 25. …
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Feb. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

O14 – Blur

Sometimes those shaky shots at low light levels produce some nice effects.  Here are two taken at the Surrey Celebration…
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Feb. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Box Art

From Gladys We: “My vote for the best piece of public art is this piece … an inukshuk made out of…
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Feb. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Let the Debate Begin

Yesterday, prompted by a release from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s office, the media went after the transportation story.  It’s the…

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