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Jul. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

The cost of cultivating sports culture

My Business in Vancouver column: Where does “riot control” fit in when you’re budgeting for the arts? Culture, says Tourism…
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Jul. 20, 2011 / Gordon Price

TransLink Funding: the Good and the Bad

The Mayor of Surrey delivers an unequivocal statement in support of gas-tax funding for TransLink’s Moving Forward strategy: Surrey Mayor…
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Jul. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

No Visible Majority

Though this blog is largely devoted to our changing built environment, the most remarkable change in Vancouver has actually been…
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Jul. 13, 2011 / Gordon Price

Why I Love Transit

It’s I Love Transit Week July 11-15 – and The Buzzer is devoting its blog to why we love transit.   (And…
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Jul. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Talking Nice

How refreshing to see that the Mayor’s Council and the Province are talking nice on the proposed increase in gas taxes…
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Jul. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Connections: What’s A Meta-phor?

Could you get a betta metaphor? The Fraser River is running 20 feet above normal for this time of year.…
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Jul. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Squeeze Play: Lessons from a small space

Petti Fong writes in the Toronto Star about small spaces: 270 square feet of home sweet home? That’s life in…
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Jul. 02, 2011 / Gordon Price

China’s Ghost Cities – the video

Australia’s SBS does a story on “an unsettling and almost unending vista of emptiness …  A property bubble like which we’ve never seen.”…
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Jun. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Metro Reform

My take on the idea of a separately elected Metro Vancouver board: Vote reform mulled to directly elect Metro reps…
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Jun. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Ranking

This is how Vancouver hears about where it ranks.  From The Wall Street Journal: NYC Emerges as ‘Green City’ Leader…
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Jun. 29, 2011 / Gordon Price

Climate change and media: Bias by Omission

Two news stories this morning that nicely illustrate how climate change is being covered – or not. From The Sun,…
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Jun. 27, 2011 / Gordon Price

A Small Bar in Temperance Lane

Scot Bathgate: “It’s amazing how most of the biggest moves in Urban Design come from simply changing the city bylaws.”…
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Jun. 20, 2011 / Gordon Price

Coverage

A little self-indulgent, I know, to post your own press clippings.  But it makes for a quick post and an…
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Jun. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Clicking past each other

On some days, the irony is thicker than others. Yesterday, Matt Chambers, editor of  The Dependent, sent along “Planting the…

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