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Jan. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Memo to Rob Ford

Re: Your position on light rail.  Namely: “There’s no point in using light-rail; that would only slow traffic.” You might…
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Jan. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Unspoken vulnerability

Lisa Margonelli writes in The Atlantic: Consider the city of Atlanta, where the average commute length is 39.4 miles each…
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Jan. 04, 2011 / Gordon Price

Gov 2.0

Tom Durning sends along a Fast Company article on how technology is transforming citizen engagement with City Hall.  For instance:…
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Jan. 01, 2011 / Gordon Price

Winners

Hey, Happy New Year’s Day from Price Tags!  And if by chance, you’re surfing with no particular intent, (hoping your head…
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Dec. 31, 2010 / Gordon Price

New Climate, Old Politics

For the record, from the IPCC FAQ: Q: Are extreme events, like heat waves, droughts or floods, expected to change…
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Dec. 30, 2010 / Gordon Price

Best of 2010: Transit

Brent Toderian sends along a link to City Fix‘s list of the best transit improvements in 2010.   First up is…
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Dec. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Hot Stuff

The Guardian: 2010 was the year of the heatwave, with record temperatures set in 17 countries. Two leading groups of…
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Dec. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the Heat – 2

From Australian Broadcasting via Transport Newsletter 180: The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat…
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Dec. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Memories, from Metro

Peter Cech is the “Communications Specialist” in Metro Vancouver’s Corporate Relations Department. Don’t know quite what that is, but I’m guessing…
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Dec. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: The Divide

Doug Coupland quotes G.K. Chesterson in his bio of Marshall McLuhan (great read, by the way). The whole modern world…
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Dec. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

30 most dynamic cities

As measured in the growth of its income and employment, according to the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.  Istanbul is first.  Montreal is…
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Dec. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

A new standard of civility at City Hall

So, a sports jock in a pink suit is the star of a mayoral invocation in Canada’s largest city. “I’m…
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Dec. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the heat

Two stories by Jeff Lee in the Sun worth emphasizing: Olympic Village’s heat-from-sewage utility a monetary success Vancouver’s sewage heat-generated utility…
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Dec. 01, 2010 / Gordon Price

Seattle goes for zero

A zero parking requirement for rowhouses, that is.  More here. Michael Geller adds his observations, with some helpful pics of…

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