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Jun. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

Reimagining Surrey City Centre – Jun 15

SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and SFU Public Square are hosting “Beyond COVID: Reimagining Our City Centres!”  Sign…
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May. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

Los Angeles (Re)discovers the Missing Middle

One of Vancouver’s Sister Cities is Los Angeles (yup, LA) – a city that builds fewer new homes per capita…
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May. 13, 2021 / Gordon Price

More Ammunition in the Gentrification War

There’s a premise out there (articulated pretty much at every rezoning hearing by Councillor Jean Swanson to justify a no…
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May. 10, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Senakw’s Federal Environmental Impact Approval Process Begins

The Federal Government through Indigenous Services has just closed a request for written comments regarding environmental impacts of the proposed…
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May. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

How NOAH might save Vancouver from the Amazon Flood

  The Post, currently under construction on Georgia, will open in 2023 as the largest office building downtown.  Inside will…
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Apr. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Starchitect Designed Vancouver House Floods Itself: Should Radical Design Be Rethought?

Everywhere around the world the tall buildings are called marvels of engineering, providing custom work and employment for the Hollywood…
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Apr. 07, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

1987: Front Page News! Dunbar Homeowner Defies City, Uses Attic

In the 1960’s Jim Wilson bought a house in Dunbar at 3253 West 24th Avenue. Twenty years later in the…
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Mar. 30, 2021 / Gordon Price

Michael Gordon: Towards the ‘Missing Middle’

By Michael Gordon The City of Vancouver’s housing stock stands out as having the lowest proportion of single-detached dwellings (one…
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Mar. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

The End of the Single-Family House is Underway (Updated)

The city-wide Vancouver plan discussion seems to be coming down to one thing: the end of RS-1 (or single-family zoning…
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Feb. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stopping change (of any kind) in Grandview

It doesn’t matter whether proposals for new housing in Grandview are massive or tiny, there’s a desire or a way…
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Jan. 20, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stats 101: A slowing rate of change is not a real loss

If you saw this headline in the Daily Hive, what would you conclude? Might you think that Canada’s big cities…
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Jan. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

Is Vancouver a City for Renters? – Jan 21

The second event of The Future We Want: The Change We Need series, hosted by the City of Vancouver in…
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Jan. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

No Grand Bargain in Grandview: Conflicting Visions on the Safeway Site

Friend of Price Tags and resident of Grandview, Gerry Stafford (who lives meters from the Broadway SkyTrain station) sends along…
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Nov. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Enrique Penalosa: Equity by Design~Sustainability & Mobility

The City of Cleveland is sponsoring this talk by Enrique Penalosa, the past mayor of Bogota, Colombia on Equity by…

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