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Feb. 04, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Healthy Place Making”in Vancouver

Fred London* visited Vancouver in 2018 as one of 12 case studies on ‘Healthy Place-Making‘ – the title of his…
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Feb. 03, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Designed for Whom? How Architecture & Vehicle Trends Are the Cultural Clash

There’s a trend in city architecture and in North American vehicle purchase that tests how we view ourselves and what…
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Jan. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Tales from the West End: St. Paul’s Anglican – Jan 30

A History of St. Paul’s Anglican Church St Paul’s Church’s historian/archivist Leslie Buck will share stories and photos of that…
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Jan. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

East and West, Singapore and Burnaby

Last November, PT did a series on the development of Brentwood station area (Burnaby Builds a City, starting here) –…
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Jan. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 2: Who Grows Where

  (Click on headline above for illustrations.) We asked stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland to do a background on The Grand…
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Dec. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Larry Cudney’s Revenge – The Story of the Vancouver Special

A big shout-out to author Jesse Donaldson: “Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate” is a fun, fascinating…
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Dec. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Real-estate Boardwalks in LA and YVR

The New York Times explores the Boardwalks of real-estate development: … the surface lots that are peppered throughout cities, a…
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Dec. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Chandelier District

We have a new downtown neighbourhood – or at least a new name for a neighbourhood. The Chandelier District.  …
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Nov. 29, 2019 / Gordon Price

Burnaby Builds A City – 4

The conversion of Brentwood into a municipal town centre is really about the conversion of car-dependent development from post-war suburbia into…
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Nov. 27, 2019 / Gordon Price

Burnaby Builds A City – 3

From William Whyte to Jan Gehl, there have been many attempts to find the formula for great public spaces.  And…
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Nov. 26, 2019 / Gordon Price

Burnaby Builds A City – 2

You’ve seen this before: It’s a 1975 sketch of “Cities in a Sea of Green” – the phrase that captured…
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Nov. 25, 2019 / Gordon Price

Burnaby Builds A City – 1

Burnaby at Brentwood has gone full urban. This is the Lougheed Highway at Willingdon – one the signature crossroads of…
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Nov. 22, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rental Apartment Rezoning: Place Your Bets

When Councillors consider this report on November 26 – Rental Incentives Review Phase II – “to create new zoning districts…
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Nov. 07, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Grand Bargain in Burnaby

This aerial over Burnaby was taken last Thursday, flying out of YVR. From Collingwood Village to Royal Oak, from Gilmore…

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