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Dec. 14, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Development in Western Canada – Board of Trade Panel

 From the Vancouver Board of Trade: Real Estate Panel 2013: Western Canadian Urban Development Tuesday, January  22, 2013  07:15 – 10:00…
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Dec. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Vancouver to Surrey: Après vous, mon ami

Around the Mayors’ Council table at TransLink, Vancouver and Surrey had a nice thing going: “We each need transit; let’s built…
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Dec. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Only in New Zealand …

… could you get away with a billboard like this:   Thanks to our Auckland correspondent, Scot Bathgate.  …
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Dec. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Collapse of a Manhattan of Ice

From Atlantic Cities: So, wow. Wowwowwow. A group of filmmakers, making a movie called, aptly, Chasing Ice, have captured what…
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Dec. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

Jack Becker’s Alternate Vision for the Massey Tunnel

I’m pleased to be using Price Tags as a venue for getting alternative visions out for discussion.  And if there’s…
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Dec. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

Adam Fitch’s Vision for Robson Square

Even though Adam Fitch is working up in Thompson-Nicola, he’s keeping his hand in when it comes to Lower Mainland…
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Dec. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

Funding TransLink: Thomas Beyer Has a Little List

The following email has been filtering into my inbox all day – and it’s worthy of posting in a slightly…
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Dec. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Not yet sufficiently depressed?

If after reading the post below, you’re not sufficiently bummed out, then Scot Bathgate sends this along from Business Insider:…
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Dec. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Taxing like a utility: cable, phone, electricity – and roads

Why some form of road pricing is inevitable: “Take a state like Rhode Island,” Foy said. “I-95 is falling into…
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Dec. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

Most Prescient New Yorker Cartoon – Ever

I’d date this Mankoff cartoon in The New Yorker from about 2001.  First saw it on the office door of…
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Dec. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

We Beat Baghdad! And other infrastructure stories

Of course, so did everyone else: Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality…
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Dec. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

A morning for storytelling …

Not what you might expect from a waste-management utility: A morning for storytelling … Create Memories, Not Garbage The holiday…
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Dec. 04, 2012 / Gordon Price

Shipping Containers and Dormitories for Grown-ups

Occasionally items just accumulate – until you realize you have a meme: _____________________________________________ . From the Vancouver Sun: In the…
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Dec. 04, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Zen of Transit

A few months I featured a mesmerizing map of transit flows in Vancouver in a single day – as created…

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