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Jan. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Cool graphics: Washington Tech Map

Economists talk about ‘clustering’ – the concentration of companies in a similar field.  A computer cluster, on the other hand, is “a…
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Jan. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Observations

Last night at the Vancouver Museum, David Suzuki introduced Dr. Göran Carstedt, a Swedish executive (IKEA, Volvo) who spoke on…
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Jan. 20, 2009 / Gordon Price

A Useful Word

We’re in a crumple. William Watson coined the word in a Sun column last week: A bubble, as we have…
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Jan. 16, 2009 / Gordon Price

Schadenfreude in Dubai

At least the Olympic Village will get built.  In Dubai and other real-estate hotspots around the world, the dominoes are…
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Jan. 13, 2009 / Gordon Price

Predictions ’09 – Rental market loosens up

A one-bedroom in the Shangri-la for $1,800 a month?  Sounded like a good deal to one West End observer.  Or…
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Jan. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Signs of Change

Imagine the corner of Carrall and Hastings in the 1920s.  At the B.C. Electric Railway headquarters (foreground on right), interurban…
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Jan. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Resolutions ’09: Don’t Fight Losing Battles

Some advice to the new council, and for that matter to TransLink and the Province: forget trying to push grade-separated…
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Jan. 01, 2009 / Gordon Price

Predictions ’09: Structural Shift in Housing Demand

From the New York Times: “Right now we are all focusing on how bad it is, said Jeffrey Otteau, whose company…
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Jan. 01, 2009 / Gordon Price

Fashion Victim

A tie shop dies, Thurlow at Robson, Dec 27th. Or is this the first sign of the coming carnage?…
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Dec. 16, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Big O

I grabbed a B-Line on Saturday down to Richmond for the opening of the Big O: The Richmond Olympic Oval will…
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Dec. 14, 2008 / Gordon Price

Where Is This?

This is Richmond – or more appropriately, the New Urban Richmond.    More particularly, it’s here, where the blue arrow points…
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Dec. 08, 2008 / Gordon Price

Bubble, Bubble

Here’s the question: Is all the talk and intent regarding ‘stimulus packages’ more or less an attempt to re-bubblize the…
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Nov. 16, 2008 / Gordon Price

Civic Election: First Take

Why the loss for the NPA?  I think this election, albeit distantly removed, was the first time people had a chance to express…
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Nov. 16, 2008 / Gordon Price

Another housing crisis

A friend in L.A. sends in this inquiry: I recently sent in my order for Olympics tickets & now must…

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