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May. 08, 2019 / Gordon Price

Metro Sustainability Breakfast: Circular Cities – May 16

At this breakfast you will hear highlights from a recent report on how cities in Holland are embracing the circular…
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May. 07, 2019 / Gordon Price

Always-Better Bikeways

While the focus on cycling infrastructure is, as it should be, on expanding the network (#ungapthemap) or on the latest…
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May. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Forum: Life Beyond Death (in RS-1)

Michael Alexander sends highlights from the recent Urbanarium discussion, provocatively titled “The Single-Family Zone Is Dead. What Next?”   Planner/developer…
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Apr. 19, 2019 / Colin Stein

Still Time to Give Feedback on Surrey-Langley Skytrain

TransLink sums it all up in two conveniently tweet-able sentences: Public engagement is a key component of rapid transit planning.…
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Apr. 19, 2019 / Gordon Price

Ghost Apartments in Seattle

. It’s odd that Vancouver, with its ongoing crisis in affordable rental housing, doesn’t pay more attention to Seattle –…
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Apr. 16, 2019 / Gordon Price

Professor Kennedy Addresses the Board of Trade

Last Wednesday, the mayor addressed a full class at the Board of Trade, with a PowerPoint lecture that outlined the…
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Apr. 12, 2019 / Gordon Price

Does gentrification cause displacement? Not necessarily.

I’ve seen at least at two studies which demonstrate that ‘gentrification’ does not necessarily lead to major displacement of poorer…
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Apr. 11, 2019 / Gordon Price

A Graphic Graphic in Kitsilano

By way of Aaron Licker @LGeospatial:…
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Apr. 11, 2019 / Gordon Price

SFU Lecture: Home or Commodity? The Transformation of Housing and its Discontents – Apr 23

In cities across the world, housing systems are undergoing immense change. Homes are being transformed into liquid commodities, and as…
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Apr. 11, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Lowering Road Speed in Portland – Part of Creating A Safer, More Equitable City

Speed kills in cities, and in Great Britain many cities are considering lowering speed limits within their jurisdictions to save…
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Apr. 09, 2019 / Gordon Price

Tone-Deaf Remarks of the Week

  From The Sun: Judy Osburn (right), who owns a heritage house a block away from the Larch Street site…
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Apr. 08, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Not In My Back Yard~Some Kitsilano Homeowners want to Axe 1805 Larch Street Application

Trust Dan Fumano in his Vancouver Sun article to wade right into the ongoing NIMBY and YIMBY discussions which in…
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Apr. 04, 2019 / Colin Stein

Whither Vancouver Parks? Open House April 7

If you’ve ever wanted to see changes in how City of Vancouver parks — the public spaces themselves, as well…
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Apr. 01, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Expansion Back On? It’s Bait & Switch “Big Berth” Time at Deltaport

It’s not over until it’s over and Peter Ladner has forwarded this article from Business in Vancouver reporting that GCT Canada…

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