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Aug. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Climate Refugees in the Northwest

I’ve been waiting for someone to put forward this scenario.  Eric Scigliano in Seattle’s Crosscut does so here – at the…
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Aug. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Survey: Help shape the future of Metro Vancouver

From PlaceSpeak: The 2012 Metro Vancouver Urban Futures Survey lets residents speak their mind about our common future. It is…
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Aug. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Stonework: Politics and transit in Vancouver, Melbourne and Perth

I had the pleasure of hosting a reception for Dr. John Stone, a lecturer in transportation at the Universities of…
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Aug. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Another chapter at Spetifore: A cottage in “Southlands”

Better! Cities & Towns features a prototype cottage for “Southlands” – the so-far frustrated proposal for what is still known…
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Aug. 17, 2012 / Gordon Price

Density in a City of Neighbourhoods – 12 (Myths, Part 2)

From Density in a City of Neighbourhoods: the second part of a summary of common myths (and truths) about density that often…
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Aug. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

Density in a City of Neighbourhoods – 11 (Myths, Part 1)

I’ve been excerpting pieces of Density in a City of Neighbourhoods for the last month or so but didn’t include…
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Aug. 15, 2012 / Gordon Price

Invisible helmet, Visible change

From Justen Harcourt, by way of SpacingToronto: Two design students who hate bike helmets (one says they’re like “a hard…
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Aug. 14, 2012 / Gordon Price

Two more years: the connection between turbulent weather and turbulent politics

Andrew Revkin, the ‘Dot Earth’ blogger for New York Times, discusses the connection between the turbulent weather, droughts and floods,…
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Jul. 27, 2012 / Gordon Price

Derechos and summer storms: Why ‘climate denialism’ is becoming irrelevant

Why will climate denialism, so effective in keeping policy-makers and politicians neutered so far, become increasingly irrelevant? Because of the…
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Jul. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Will our business leaders follow Toronto’s on support for transit?

From Peter Ladner: Governments alone can’t solve regional transportation crisis: ‘Let’s move,’ say business, labour, community leaders Toronto, July 13,…
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Jul. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Dead Aim: Marohn on Engineering

I go through a lot of items in a day, as you might have noticed, and select what I think…
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Jul. 24, 2012 / Gordon Price

City Conversation’s Tasty Topic: Urban Food

The next City Conversation on the First Thursday of the month: The Romance and Reality of Urban Food When: August…
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Jul. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

RePost: What does Vision Vancouver want from a planner?

Thanks to a pile-on by social media, Lance Berelowitz’s post on the absence of a Vancouver Planning Director brought the…
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Jul. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Who is there who does not like a garden?

The burghers of Drummondville, apparently. It comes down to this simple formulation: Grass good! Vegetables bad. We’ve heard one too…

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