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May. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Grist for the Comment Mill

While I’m at the B.C. Land Summit, here are a couple of items that came in this morning, dealing with…
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May. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Saving Character Houses: We’ve done it before – Trish French

Just in case anyone missed this comment from Trish French, here it is: About 20 years ago, as a planner…
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May. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Magazine promotion in 1912: White Rock Lots

From Tom Durning: “An excellent lesson in the meaning of inflation. ” . . And an excellent lesson of the impact of…
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May. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

BIV Column: “No easy way to save city heritage homes”

My Business in Vancouver column: No easy way to save city heritage homes from wrecking ball . The civic election…
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May. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Time-Lapse Vancouver: Skylines with the lights on

Another clip video from Tourism Vancouver (thank you again, Vancouver is Awesome): . . These video treats can be like…
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May. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

San Francisco: Rents Gone Wild

How bad is the rental market in SFO?  This bad: San Francisco Landlord Tells Tenants: Make $100K, Have 725 Credit…
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May. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Inequality in the City: New York’s Housing Strategy

As senior governments become increasingly unlikely, unable or oblivious to issues of inequality, local governments are taking up the challenge.  …
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May. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Olympic Village in Rio

Here’s what Rio aspires for the future of its athletes’ village after the 2016 games, as reported in UrbanLand: .…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle 6 – Boom and Echo

Danny Westneat, the Seattle Times columnist, pens a piece on the current boom that, if we change the name of the…
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Apr. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Best U.S. Neighbourhoods for Millennials

‘Cause even though it’s American, who can resist a real-estate listicle? .   And this has prices: . Twenty-four more…
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Apr. 25, 2014 / Gordon Price

Comparative Readings from America: Housing, development and rents

… in which to explore some parallels with Vancouver. From the New York Times: In High Gear New York City…
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Apr. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vanishing Vancouver: The Dilemma of Incompatible Values

Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe tackles a topic that’s gaining increasing traction as the civic election approaches: the loss of Vancouver’s pre-1940s…
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Mar. 31, 2014 / Gordon Price

The End of the Region as we know it – 7: Weakening the ALR

Brendan Hurley makes the case for the Agricultural Land Reserve in The Straight: As the Agricultural Land Reserve enters its fifth decade,…
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Mar. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Affordability: Fill in the Blank

Quote: The urban core is increasingly becoming a “playground” for the well educated and well off, while the fringes of ________…

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