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Sep. 23, 2022 / Gordon Price

A Green Party Vision for Our Housing Future

Here’s the Green Party’s housing platform.  Here are three points from it: Implement a simple menu of repeatable building forms,…
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May. 02, 2022 / Gordon Price

Finally, Not all Quiet on the Downtown Waterfront

Here’s the latest on the work pushing Council and the city to do something special, to take advantage and unleash…
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Apr. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Get Your Own Jane Jacobs or I.M. Pei Doll, Support a Great Cause

Trust the good folks behind the City of Toronto’s Jane’s Walk Festival to come up with the perfect way to…
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Apr. 05, 2022 / Gordon Price

Revising the Grand Bargain – with Rob Grant

If the Grand Bargain is going to be discarded or majorly revised, there needs to be a new bargain –…
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Mar. 28, 2022 / Gordon Price

An inspiration for the new Art Gallery design?

Palmas 555: From that hotbed of modernist design: Mexico in 1975,  By Juan Sordo Madaleno / José Adolfo Wiechers /…
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Mar. 01, 2022 / Gordon Price

Michael Geller at Expo2020 and the best of public spaces

By Michael Geller Throughout history, World Expositions have introduced innovations that eventually become commonplace. Examples include the elevator, first displayed…
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Feb. 23, 2022 / Gordon Price

Heresy in Shaughnessy

 James from Shaughnessy, a Viewpoint reader, submits his viewpoint as a long-time resident …     I am a huge…
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Feb. 23, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Big Towers, Big Problems at Vancouver’s Shangri-La & NYC’s 432 Park Avenue

At Viewpoint Vancouver  we previously wrote  about some of the ongoing issues that happen in tall tower strata buildings which…
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Feb. 21, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Downtown Hudson’s Bay Flagship Hauling Anchor, Sailing to New Future?

In no surprise to anyone, the Hudson’s Bay store downtown at Granville and Georgia Streets is announcing plans to redevelop.…
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Feb. 11, 2022 / Gordon Price

How to kill Kingsway in order to save it – and why we can’t

John Mackie is the Sun’s writer with an historic lens.  He helps us see the shape of the future through…
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Jan. 25, 2022 / Gordon Price

Housing Reform: Why don’t we just go Kiwi?

  Here’s the clearest explanation of what New Zealand has done to address housing need and affordability – in a…
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Jan. 19, 2022 / Gordon Price

House Space: A Fascinating and Unsurprising Map

Where American families spend more of their time in big houses: Yes, the kitchen and television room, not the dining…
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Jan. 07, 2022 / Gordon Price

Small-scale Commercial in Calgary

Most mornings I start my day with an email from Brandon Donnelly – a developer and, shall we say, urban…
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Dec. 28, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 4 -Vancouverism in Los Angeles

This I did not expect.  Driving down La Cienega Boulevard at night, a block of lights in the distance rose…

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