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Mar. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

Video: “12 Affordable Housing Ideas for Vancouver” – Michael Geller

The SFU City Program lecture from February 2: Vancouver will always be an expensive place to live. However, with innovative…
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Mar. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

China’s Next Ghost Towns

From the South China Morning Post: Unlike ghost towns in the West which are laid waste by wars, natural disasters,…
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Feb. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bikes Change Your Brooklyn Apartment Hunt

Well, maybe not yours – but it did for Jesse Warner-Levine and Hallie Nickelson, according to the New York Times: .…
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Feb. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ray Spaxman: On Precedent

One of the trickiest things to watch out for if you are in charge of approving development in a city,…
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Feb. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Vancouver Especially

Scot likes this: Ken Lum’s ‘Vancouver Especially’ exhibit a critique on the state of Vancouver real estate . Vancouver artist…
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Feb. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: A Short History of Gentrification

Durning found this in Next City:    .   Ryan McLaughlin found this in The Economist:   Bring on the hipsters…
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Feb. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

Lecture: Jim Green Memoral – Feb 26

Jim Green Memorial Jim Green’s personal legacy of nearly 1,000 social and affordable housing units in the city’s Downtown East…
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Feb. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Speaker Series: Urban Land Institute for Students at UBC – Feb 25

ULI BC has arranged a Speakers Series for students studying planning, real estate, architecture and related disciplines.  Learn more about…
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Feb. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Hard Work of Idealism: Building aggressively and densely and affordably

An editorial from the New York Times: . Can New York Be Affordable Again? . The New York of the…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Bicycle in Popular Culture: The Independent Ad

Charlie Walsh: Note the number of cyclists present and the number of helmets on their heads in The Independent’s promo video…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Wealth, Real Estate and New York – The Series

This is what puts the “New York” in the New York Times: a spectacularly researched and gripping story of not…
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Feb. 04, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: What’s driving Millennials?

Durning finds out that not all Millennials everywhere are giving up on cars. From Voice of San Diego:   What…
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Feb. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

City Program Lecture: Geller on Affordable Housing – Feb 2

Tonight’s lecture is booked out.  But there may be a few extra seats for latecomers (no guarantee) if you show…
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Jan. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: A Short Film about London’s Crazy Housing Market

From CityLab: The FOURWALLS project started out as a citywide call for short amateur films that “showcase the reality of…

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