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Mar. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

High Water

I was struck by the power of this photo in a story on Venice: In the last 100 years, Venice…
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Mar. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Tryanny of the Few

Why San Francisco seems dysfunctional: Welcome to the tyranny of the few. San Francisco goes to great lengths to make…
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Mar. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Strip Mall world – Too big to fail?

This essay – Wal-Mart.  Too Big to Fail – by Charles Marohn in New Urban Network raises the basic question about…
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Mar. 02, 2011 / Gordon Price

City demand versus suburban supply

The Economist makes an essential point: Imagine two areas: Gotham and Pleasantville. Say the demand to live in Pleasantville increases…
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Feb. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

Panic and climate change

Now that the Liberals have chosen a new leader, the Gordon Campbell era is almost over – 27 years, from…
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Feb. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Olympic Village reborn?

Frances Bula calls it “the strangest travel piece ever” – here in the New York Times.  Judge for yourself. Actually, it…
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Feb. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Climate Change and Food Supply

There was some good observations following my “Connections” post, linking the Russian heat wave to the Egyptian Revolution.  Not that…
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Feb. 17, 2011 / Gordon Price

Climate-change denialism and reality

Both the Vancouver Sun and the NewYork Times, no doubt among thousands of other papers, covered the ground-breaking work by…
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Feb. 13, 2011 / Gordon Price

Weather Retort

Saturday, Granville Street, on the first anniversary of the Winter Olympics, looked like this: Last year, about the same time,…
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Feb. 11, 2011 / Gordon Price

Kleiber’s Law and Egyptian Revolution

I don’t know Olin Hyde – but I wish I did.  From his bio, he’s one interesting dude. He must…
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Feb. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

Not an Architectural Speaker Series

From a Not As Boring Museum of Vancouver: Moving Through: Features Mini-walks & Tours w/ 3 planners, 3 architects on…
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Feb. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Connections: Degrees

A few degrees of centigrade, a few degrees of separation ……
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Feb. 07, 2011 / Gordon Price

Fun facts for a not-funny issue

Thanks to Michael Geller for drawing attention to a housing report fresh out of City Hall, authored by Dale McClanaghan. Says…
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Jan. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Divining God’s intentions

If I were in the fundamentalist preaching biz, looking around God’s creation for signs of His intentions, wrathful and otherwise,…

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