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Jan. 10, 2012 / Gordon Price

Must-See in Surrey: Beyond Vague Terrain

Another intriguing show from one of the more adventurous art galleries in one of the least expected places: Beyond Vague…
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Jan. 09, 2012 / Gordon Price

Quote: A Billion Acres!

Planetizen quotes Shopping Centers Today: “For their part, big-box retailers are just as eager to find new customers, even if that…
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Jan. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Futures: Migration declines

This just in, from Urban Futures: Release of the provincial quarterly migration data. We wrote in the spring about a…
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Jan. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

How “Old & Blighted” outperforms “Shiny & New”

Charles Marohn has a premise: auto-oriented design produces a lousy return on investment.  It’s wasteful – and we can’t afford it. And…
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Jan. 04, 2012 / Gordon Price

Best performance by a government agency in 2011

And the winner is – TransLink! From January through October, 2011, the number of revenue rides was 192.1 million –…
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Jan. 03, 2012 / Gordon Price

Tales from Phoenix

Tom Durning submitted this from the Brookings Institution: What’s wrong with American housing? Housing will not help lead the U.S.…
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Jan. 03, 2012 / Gordon Price

A Bad Case of Scenarios

A scenario: War is imminent.  At least the Generals think so – nine out of the ten of them – and…
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Dec. 31, 2011 / Gordon Price

(Looking) Back Story

Mike Klassen over at City Caucus did a survey on “The Top City Story of 2011.”  Most commentators thought it…
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Dec. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Charts of the Year (U.S. dept.)

The Dish’s Andrew Sullivan (my favourite American blogger) has a contest every year for an assortment of awards – winners announced…
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Dec. 20, 2011 / Gordon Price

Climate change: Should we be scared – and what should we do?

Is this enough to scare us? A recent estimate suggests that the perennially frozen ground known as permafrost, which underlies nearly…
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Dec. 19, 2011 / Gordon Price

Rybczynski in Surrey: “Profound correctness”

Michael Heeney of Bing Thom Architects writes: “When Witold Rybczynski was out for the Warren Gill lecture I had an…
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Dec. 17, 2011 / Gordon Price

Three questions for Bob Ransford

Housing affordability is now the No. 1 topic in Vancouver – particularly with the announcement of the Mayor’s Task Force…
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Dec. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Toderian File

Brent Toderian, our City Planner, is great at circulating items of interest, some of which he writes and posts.  Let…
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Dec. 14, 2011 / Gordon Price

Geller’s Twelve Days: A seasonal guide to affordable housing

Michael Geller always has a great seasonal card, usually filled with his particular brand of wit.  But this year he’s…

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