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Jun. 20, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Design, Passion & The Proposed Vancouver Art Gallery

One of the great things about Vancouver is how absolutely passionate and involved  citizens are with the public landscape. Witness…
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Jun. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

White City Alert: We Need a Name

Hopefully, PT readers are following my exploration of Tel Aviv’s White City on Instagram. As mentioned in the leading post…
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Jun. 02, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanist Abroad: Three Weeks in the White City

For most of June, the Price in Price Tags will be far away.  Mostly in Tel Aviv.  More specifically, in…
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May. 29, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our Fallen Tower

From this: October 2018   To this: May 2019  …
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May. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our Falling and Rising Towers

A certain synchronicity: Just as Vancouver House on one side of the peninsula is being completed, the Landmark on the…
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May. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

VHF Heritage House Tour – Jun 2

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s 2019 Heritage House Tour The 2019 self-guided tour offers an exclusive look inside ten historic Vancouver houses…
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May. 10, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Documentary Film Features Cornelia Oberlander, the First Lady of Canadian Landscape Design

If Cornelia Hahn Oberlander had listened to her mother and enrolled in horticulture school instead of the landscape architecture program…
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May. 08, 2019 / Gordon Price

Panel: Best High Street Design – May 29

Information and registration here.…
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May. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Forum: Life Beyond Death (in RS-1)

Michael Alexander sends highlights from the recent Urbanarium discussion, provocatively titled “The Single-Family Zone Is Dead. What Next?”   Planner/developer…
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May. 01, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Opening Day of Montreal’s Expo 67~52 Years Ago

  Fifty-two years ago today Expo 67 opened on two man-made islands in Montreal. The 20th century was about World’s…
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Apr. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Infill Dilemma

In principle, the idea of infill in already built-out neighbourhoods is seen to be a good one, especially to broaden…
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Apr. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

Michael Beach Looks at the Map

YouTuber Michael Beach (not the actor, but about whom not much is searchable) came up with a simple but effective…
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Apr. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our Falling / Rising Towers – Recycling Dept.

Is it possible that some of the concrete being drilled apart on the falling Landmark … … ends up in…
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Mar. 25, 2019 / Gordon Price

Paris: An Urbanist Perspective from 1896

From Marilyn Rummel (via Tim Pawsey): This has knocked me off my feet. A video from Paris compiled from footage…

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