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Mar. 27, 2012 / Gordon Price

Progress: It Ain’t All Bad News

Just in case things can sometimes seem too bleak, it helps to remind ourselves that incremental change makes a difference. …
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Mar. 26, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Front Line of Climate Change

It’s Texas. Last year, 100 days of 100+ F temperatures and a record-setting drought. The reservoirs are drying up –…
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Mar. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Another audit for Translink, another futile round

Sigh. Premier Christy Clark has ordered an audit of TransLink to address a shortfall in funding for the transportation authority.…
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Mar. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Pricing Our Roads: What can Metro Vancouver learn from Seattle?

There will be limited seating for this one, so sign up soon. Tolling? Road pricing? New technologies? The Sustainable Transportation…
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Mar. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Scott Bernstein – Tonight at SFU – on Location Efficiency

Progress Lost, Progress Redefined, Progress Regained—How Location Efficiency Performance Measures Are Being Used to Achieve Economic Security Scott Bernstein, President…
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Mar. 21, 2012 / Gordon Price

Under One Roof (and a beautiful one it is)

Over 200 students from Vancouver’s six post-secondary institutions have been working on projects related to Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 Goals.…
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Mar. 20, 2012 / Gordon Price

Amenity versus Affordability?

From the Downtown Vancouver Association: “It’s time for some deep self-reflection about who we are in Downtown Vancouver, and what…
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Mar. 20, 2012 / Gordon Price

It’s Wrong to Wreck the World: Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to the Future

An SFU Lecture presented by Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore, Philosophy, Oregon State University: Although climate change is a scientific &…
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Mar. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

Our Suburban DNA

Luke Brocki continues his search for explanations and solutions to the affordable housing dilemma. I offer mine: “We’re entirely a…
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Mar. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

Two Towers

Paul Hillsdon at civicsurrey has a scoop: We have your exclusive first look at the preliminary detailed design for a new…
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Mar. 19, 2012 / Gordon Price

As If Sustainability Mattered

A lecture at Robson Square from two of Vancouver’s most influential planning academics, Dr. Mark Roseland and Dr. Ron Kellett.…
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Mar. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

New Frontiers in Obliviousness

Gordon Gibson manages to write a whole op-ed  in the Sun on stopping growth in the City of Vancouver without…
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Mar. 15, 2012 / Gordon Price

Value for Money: The Cost and Competiveness of Cities

From Atlantic Cities: This new index by the Economist Intelligence Unit ranks the competitiveness of 120 of the most prominent…
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Mar. 15, 2012 / Gordon Price

‘Obesogenic’ environments by design – Australian version

Not something you would have seen as the lead in the homes section of a major newspaper – this one…

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