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Oct. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Patrick Condon answers to "Some questions"

Patrick Condon commented in detail to Some questions for the Greens about highrises – but his remarks deserve to be brought to foreground:…
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Oct. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Some questions for the Greens about highrises

This excerpt from an item in The Straight – Vancouver Greens and COPE deliver more detailed housing plans than what’s offered…
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Oct. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver's Land-price disconnect

Another factor in affordability, from Business in Vancouver: “Buildable” costs expose disconnect in condo market Startling multi-family land prices are…
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Oct. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

Berkeley Bugle: Supply and Demand in San Francisco

Peter adds to the SF housing debate with this piece from truthout: “It’s a complicated issue and you just can’t…
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Oct. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Rents and Politics in San Francisco

Scot is keeping up-to-date on the politics of the rental crisis in San Francisco.  Here’s an op-ed by State Senator…
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Oct. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Parking for Housing

The theme today is … parking!  Here’s Tom’s contribution from the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman: . Trading Parking Lots…
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Oct. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Extraordinary Statistics: Real traffic only half projected rate

I came across a slide as part of a presentation by Tim Barton, a transportation planner at Bunt & Associates,…
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Oct. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Peak Sprawl?

I confess, I’ve assumed that regardless of the hype about the revitalization of urban centres in the U.S., I’ve assumed…
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Sep. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Michael Kluckner's Heritage Talks

One of this city’s favourite historians and authors …   • Gentrification in Vancouver September 30th, 7:30 pm at Hycroft,…
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Sep. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Empty Housing: Much Ado about Much Ado

Urban Futures jumps into the empty-housing debate: . Much Ado About Nothing: What the Census data say, and don’t say,…
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Sep. 25, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Row Houses

From the back: row houses in Montreal. . .…
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Sep. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

West End: Impacts and Issues of Laneway Housing

The first proposals for laneway housing under the new West End plan are coming forward.  And the first objections. From…
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Sep. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

Department of Overstatement: Bad Teeth

In the Sun today – Shelley Fralic: New tower a welcome twist Vancouver House is a 525-foot, 59-storey tower — said to…
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Sep. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

Zombie Towns: The impact of international wealth on the supercities

Gladys We links to this piece in The Guardian by Oliver Wainwright: The truth about property developers: how they are…

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