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Feb. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

O3 – Light

Confident prediction #2 – We won’t miss the helicopters after the Olympics.  They’re a constant presence over the downtown now;  one…
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Feb. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

O1 – Quiet Time

On return from Seattle this Superbowl Sunday:  the traffic light, the border quick, the city gray and quiet.  After three days away,…
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Jan. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Game Changes

There’s more happening in Vancouver as the Olympics approach than I can keep track of.  Fortunately I have PT readers…
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Jan. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Call and Response

Some great responses coming in to replace‘s request for unique and quirky examples of Vancouver’s urbanism, especially from those out…
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Jan. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

A rising tide

There’s going to be a flood of articles profiling Vancouver as the Olympics focus international attention on us.   Please send…
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Dec. 21, 2009 / Gordon Price

Light in Madrid

Good friend Brian Williamson sends some images of how they do festive lighting in Madrid: What, I wonder, will we…
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Oct. 15, 2009 / Gordon Price

Olympic Bike Lane?

In all the coverage of the Olympic transportation plan, there was an interesting omission: no mention of the removal of…
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Oct. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

The Unwrapping of the Wraps

And so it begins. I’ve been surprised how little Olympic buzz there has been in Vancouver so far.  Maybe it’s…
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Sep. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Mixed blessings

I don’t usually do a lot of postings on Vancouver’s real-estate market since it’s a favoured topic in so many…
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May. 26, 2009 / Gordon Price

Spring Arrivals – Eagleridge Cut

You can now see Eagleridge Bluff – what’s left of it – at a hundred kilometres an hour.   As you…
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Feb. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Shovel Ready or Shovel Worthy?

My latest column in Business in Vancouver: Hard to dig Ottawa’s shovel-ready spending A lot of money is suddenly going…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cost of Sprawl

Lots of commentary these days on the need for spending on infrastructure.  Here’s one. But they all say more or…
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Jan. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cool graphics: Washington Tech Map

Economists talk about ‘clustering’ – the concentration of companies in a similar field.  A computer cluster, on the other hand, is “a…
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Jan. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

A Useful Word

We’re in a crumple. William Watson coined the word in a Sun column last week: A bubble, as we have…

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