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Jan. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Whistler and Surrey: Learning from Las Vegas

Doug Coupland, in a conversation with Pam Goldsmith-Jones in Whistler, made this observation (he has so many), as reported in…
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Jan. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Stirred Pot: Gentrification, NIMBYism, Class and Bad Blood

Up and down the west coast. In Seattle (from the New York Times): In Suburban Seattle, New Nests for China’s…
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Jan. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Art: Vancouver, Special

In the lobby of the Firehall Arts Centre during the run of Chelsea Hotel, there were prints of the digital…
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Dec. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Empty Homes in London

Another angle on the empty-house issue.  From The Guardian: Property investors in Islington who leave homes empty could face jail: Property…
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Dec. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Report: “Intensifying Melbourne”

From Cole Hendrigan at Curtin University: I was not involved in this, though I wish I had been. I just…
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Dec. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

A San Francisco perspective: Impact of foreign buyers on housing market

Michael Alexander thinks “This is the story that Vancouver’s deficient press should have run about house buyers.”  From San Francisco’s…
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Nov. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Thought Experiment: What would Alibaba want, and what would we do?

Here’s a purely speculative exercise. From Business in Vancouver: Will Vancouver be Alibaba’s next home away from home?  “Had a great…
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Nov. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Report and Panel: Getting to Groundbreaking” – Dec 4

  Getting to Groundbreaking 2014 Report Release and Panel Discussion . Come to the release of the first results of…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Two Worlds of Housing in Vancouver

Captured in a single juxtaposition of stories in Business in Vancouver: .…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Real Cost of Detached Housing

Penny Coupland has a question for you excellently informed people: I wonder if there’s anyone on your blog who can comment on…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

Tight City: What is This About?

It’s the latest piece of public art at the Central City Canada Line Station: . I was fascinated by the…
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Nov. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

Turnaround: Transit, the Economy and Political Messaging

Two reasons why the business and development community will be strong supporters of the referendum. First: Transit hubs a magnet for new…
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Nov. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

To All Parties: Will your policies affect existing property values?

Last April, I posted “Vanishing Vancouver: The Dilemma of Incompatible Values” in response to a column by Barbara Yaffe on the loss of Vancouver’s pre-1940s…
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Nov. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Comments worth commenting on: "The End of the Residential Highrise?"

Comments to previous posts worthy of reprint here – the foreground. Indeed, this whole thread to “The End of the…

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