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Feb. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Metro Docs: Extraordinary Infrastructure, with music

  . For more than 10 years, Metro Vancouver video-documented the construction of one of the largest water infrastructure projects…
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Feb. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Fraser Voices on the Massive Massey

It’s taken awhile, but new voices are emerging South of the Fraser to critique the justification and take action on…
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Feb. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Gallery of Incomplete Infrastructure

Bike Lane Division, which is where they almost always are. . . Michael Kluckner found this in Cordoba, Spain.  …
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Feb. 02, 2016 / Gordon Price

New Railing and Bike Path on Causeway

PT readers respond with shots of the new railing and bike path on the north (east?) side of the Causeway…
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Feb. 01, 2016 / Dan Ross

Ain't Gettin' Any Younger

Gordon’s piece on entering the world of the old offered an important perspective on the difficulties of mobility for older adults.…
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Jan. 31, 2016 / Gordon Price

Stephen Rees: "The Case for Replacing the Massey Tunnel"

Michael Mortensen and others think this latest post from Stephen Rees must be posted on posted on Price Tags: .…
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Jan. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

Dep't of Irony: Massey son wants tunnel, not bridge

A letter in today’s Sun: Let public in on tunnel alternative . As the son of the late George Massey…
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Jan. 06, 2016 / artitectus

Design thinking for Cities?

An article today in the NYTimes: ‘Design Thinking’ for a Better You … got me thinking about a post from…
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Jan. 03, 2016 / artitectus

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This was something a planning professor of mine once told me…
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Dec. 06, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

5-Year Cycling Network Additions and Upgrades

The City of Vancouver’s Council Standing Committee On Planning, Transportation and Environment will hear this report at the 0930 Thursday…
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Nov. 27, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Item From Ian

It’s no surprise that other cities grapple with problems that are similar to Vancouver’s. In this case, San Francisco officials…
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Sep. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Boundaries and Connectors – A likely explanation for another obscenity

I don’t think it’s too much to say that this is an obscenity: . Sunshine Coast Connector options . Think…
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Sep. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Asphalt Noose – Revised

For years I have used a slide in my presentations that illustrate the various highway and bridge projects that are…
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Sep. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Lecture Series: "Infrastructure Everywhere"

 From UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture . Infrastructure Everywhere . Infrastructure provides the backbone of contemporary society; it’s…

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