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Dec. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month – The Arganzuela Bridge and the Madrid Rio

Lots of  links have come in to this front-page story in the New York Times on the Madrid Rio: More…
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Dec. 12, 2011 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month – a proposed ‘urban’ bridge for Montreal

Next American City examines the idea of the ‘urban bridge’ in this article on a proposal for Montreal by Maxim…
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Dec. 02, 2011 / Gordon Price

Re:CONNECT Winner

Among the winners at last night’s Re:CONNECT Awards – this one, No. 77, was honoured in the Visualizing the Viaducts…
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Nov. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Re:connect – Time to Vote

Ready for another election? Sure, why not.  Here’s the link to the results of the Re:connect competition – ideas for…
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Nov. 01, 2011 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month: Poughkeepsie

Given the interest in the Port-Mann-Bridge-as-park idea, here’s one place that actually did it.  From Treehugger: When it comes to dilapidated railways being…
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Oct. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Human Earth

From The Dish: Some scientists and scholars are calling today’s era the Anthropocene, a unique geological age where human activity,…
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Oct. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Our Very Own Highline

Gaetan Royer, having moved from City Manager in Port Moody to Metro, floats an audacious idea: Imagine an aerial park…
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Sep. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Happy New Year in Amsterdam

Nothing to do with bicycles. But you can see “how data generated by our very humanity can weave itself into…
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Aug. 26, 2011 / Gordon Price

Singapore’s Sky Park: Architecture as Fantasy

Tom Durning sends along some pics of Sky Park, a mixed-use complex in Marina Bay, Singapore designed by Moshe Safdie…
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Aug. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Potential Passerelle of the Month

Richard Campbell thinks a proposed project could allow for a needed passerelle across Boundary Road. There is a good opportunity to built…
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Jul. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Connections: What’s A Meta-phor?

Could you get a betta metaphor? The Fraser River is running 20 feet above normal for this time of year.…
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Mar. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge Stairwell Project

Scott Billings and Josh Hite, video artists, are working on a project inside of the Burrard Bridge. Yup, inside.  There’s a…
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Mar. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Strip Mall world – Too big to fail?

This essay – Wal-Mart.  Too Big to Fail – by Charles Marohn in New Urban Network raises the basic question about…
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Mar. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Roof Praising

I really like the new BC Place roof so far: Crown of thorns, I’ve heard it called.  Whatever –  better than the…

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