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Mar. 03, 2011 / Gordon Price

The End of the Strip Mall – Abbotsford

Well, ‘downtown’ Abbotsford isn’t technically a strip mall – though there aren’t many vestiges of its historic roots as a…
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Feb. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

Water in and water out

What are cities about? First and foremost: water Clean water in and dirty water out.  Or roundabout.  But without  getting…
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Jan. 07, 2011 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Month – Gibbs Street, Portland

Haven’t had one of these for awhile: Construction of the Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge is set to begin this month …
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Nov. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

Capital Pan

There’s been a lot of this sort of argument recently: I thought of how this city, my city, puts more…
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Oct. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

A Small Army on Hornby Street

 Friday at noon on Hornby Street: The Engineering Department has occupied the Hornby Street corridor with an impressive display of logistics.  Military-like? …
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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…
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May. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Australian Connection

My current Business in Vancouver column: Why B.C. needs to exploit more of its Australian connections All things considered, Aussies…
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May. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Passerelle of the Week: Taiwan

Ronald Chen reports in from Taiwan. I recently visited a brand new bike overpass that connects a botanical garden to…
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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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Apr. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Passerelles of the Month: WXY Architecture

Michael Alexander passes along links to the work of New York’s WXY Architecture + Urban Design. On home ground, they’re…
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Apr. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Purifying the stream of cash

You may have already seen this op-ed ithat I wrote for the Sun.  But if not … Backsliding aside, here are…
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Feb. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Portland App

Maybe it’s the ex-councillor in me, but I find this very cool. Porltand is testing an app that will allow…
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Dec. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

(Rail) Road to the Future

So if highways (and probably airports) are not likely to be the symbols of a more optimistic and practical future…
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Dec. 04, 2009 / Gordon Price

Magic Highways

Ah, there’s nothing so dated as the future.  Here’s the Disney version, literally, of the highways of the future. They…

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