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May. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

Business Friendly?

$1,500?  Really? Is that what’s stopping a second Amtrak train from Seattle?  A major roadblock to a second train is…
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May. 27, 2009 / Gordon Price

Urban Myths: 15,000 empty condos.

In retrospect, it should have been obvious. A casual glance while driving over the Cambie or Granville Bridges at night…
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May. 26, 2009 / Gordon Price

Spring Arrivals – Eagleridge Cut

You can now see Eagleridge Bluff – what’s left of it – at a hundred kilometres an hour.   As you…
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May. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Sightline Institute on the carbon tax

Here’s another reason why I’m pleased to me a member of the Sightline Institute.  Needless to say, I share the…
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May. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

An Inquiring Metro wants to know …

From our friends at Metro: What will our region look like when the population increases by 50% to 3.4 million…
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Apr. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Metro Dialogues

From Metro Vancouver (what us old-timers used to call the GVRD): What will our region look like when the population…
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Mar. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

Big Deal

Sorry for the intermittent posts; I’ve been doing some travelling – and will be out of town for the next…
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Mar. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

“Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts”

Says Tom Friedman in this Sunday’s New York Times: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of…
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Feb. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Shovel Ready or Shovel Worthy?

My latest column in Business in Vancouver: Hard to dig Ottawa’s shovel-ready spending A lot of money is suddenly going…
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Feb. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Laneway Housing

Had a chance to meet with Jake Fry, one of the principles of Smallworks in his shop in the Southlands (above), right…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

The Places We Live

An extraordinary web site on a staggering subject – the world’s slums.  Click here for a tour.  [Thanks to Gladys…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Wendy’s coming to town

And she won’t be happy if you don’t come to see her. Wendy Sarkissian is an award-winning planner and author of…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cost of Sprawl

Lots of commentary these days on the need for spending on infrastructure.  Here’s one. But they all say more or…
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Jan. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Give My Regards …

Lisa Brideau sends along a link to every streetcorner in Manhattan: Photographer Richard Howe has indeed captured every intersection in…

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