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Jul. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Volcano on Dunsmuir Street

My latest Business in Vancouver column: Half a month after the new Dunsmuir cycle track opened, the reaction to the…

Jul. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Great Debater – Jarrett Walker on Transit

I have a feeling this new City Program lecture will fill up quickly. Reserve now. A FIELD GUIDE TO TRANSIT…

Jul. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Board of Trade goes viral

This morning, I already had two messages of this note from Jan Pezarro: During the 2010 Winter Games Metro Vancouver…

Jul. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Housing on the hills

A community too expensive for the mayor to live in? Could have happened to him, says Darrell Mussatto: He pulls…

Jun. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Marc Jaccard’s dismal conclusion

On the evening of June 9, Sam Sullivan hosted his Global Civic Forum at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse. He had…

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Jun. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Gold for Green

I referenced this article – originally published by the Urban Land Institute in its excellent journal “Urban Land” – on…

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Jun. 17, 2010 / Gordon Price

Trolley Song

Yes, this is a trolley: Or at least a concept for one, proposed for Leeds, England. This pic is one…

Jun. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Suburbs (gasp!) Thriving

The Sun quotes some ‘authority’ who doesn’t think the suburbs are all that sub: The lure of the backyard and…

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Jun. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Clouds of Change is Twenty

From Donna Passmore: Twenty years ago today, the City of Vancouver released the Clouds of Change report. It…

May. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

“An entire community of Sarah Palins”

Kevin Drum, who lives in Orange County, CA, and blogs at Mother Jones, explains suburban attitudes from the inside: It’s…

May. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Calgary outgreens us!

The Mercer Quality of Living Survey is out. (Available here.) This year, Vienna is tops. Vancouver ties for fourth with…

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May. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Real Time Solution

The greatest single loss due to insufficient TransLink funding (or more directly, the failure of Provincial will to authorize what…

May. 14, 2010 / Gordon Price

Ventura perspective

A note came in from Rick Cole, the City Manager of Ventura – a small coastal community northwest of Los…

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May. 10, 2010 / Gordon Price

Freeway Buzz

Over at TransLink, Jhenifer Pabillano edits the terrific Buzzer Blog, both informative and entertaining, and another example of TL’s embrace of new…

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