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Dec. 06, 2020 / Gordon Price

Art in the Right Place

Spinning Chandelier, under the Bridge above the intersection of Granville and Beach, shows how important contrast can be. In this…
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Dec. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

White Supremacy

Daily Scot checking out the massive tech complex by Westbank, going up at 5th and Quebec: Scot’s excited by the…
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Nov. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Brussels Belgium Skipped Apartments, Went to “Maisons de Maitre”.

Bloomberg’s Feargus O’Sullivan has been writing an interesting series on housing in world cities. He took a look at Brussels…
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Nov. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Icepick is Back

In 2015, Toronto-based developer Cadillac Fairview attempted to get approval for a 26=storey office building at 555 Cordova, shoe-horned up…
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Nov. 09, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

FOUND! Meet the Millachip Family of Clark Drive, Vancouver in 1913

  Last week I wrote about finding a Vancouver treasure 5,700 kilometres away in Prince Edward Island. It was a…
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Nov. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Finding the Edwardian Family at Vancouver’s 2825 Clark Drive

  Several years ago when I was visiting family in Prince Edward Island I saw a Vancouver postcard in a…
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Nov. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

Video: “The Missing Middle Mystery”

The latest from Uytae Lee at About Here.  In corporation with the Urbanarium: Metro Vancouver primarily has two types of…
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Oct. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Time-lapse: Lion City Rising

It’s been a long time since we had a good time-lapse of a city in transition – and this is…
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Sep. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist in the Okanagan 4 – Two Kind of Towns: Bisected or Bypassed

There are two kinds of towns in the Okanagan (and most of BC). It depends on the provincial roads that…
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Aug. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

A Day in the Life of a Skyscraper~1976

This gem provides a ten minute vignette of the 1976 office life of Chicago’s Prudential Building which was built in…
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Aug. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

Portland: Go for the Protests, Stay for the Rezoning

Portland’s BLM protests may capture the news, but the Sightline Institute summarizes what their city council is likely to approve…
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Aug. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

How Do Pandemics Change Housing Unit and Building Design? Lessons from 1918 For Today

Andy Yan of Simon Fraser University’s City Program notes that cities are not prepared for bio-medical emergencies like the  Covid-19…
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Aug. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Growth Downtown: A Thousand Percent in Thirty Years

The guys at Changing Vancouver have one of their ‘big picture’ views of the city this week: This is all…
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Jul. 28, 2020 / Gordon Price

Catching Up With Daily Scot

PT: It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Daily Scot (né Bathgate) on this blog – even though on some weeks he…

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