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Oct. 23, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Width-to-Height Ratio: What Works Best?

Adam Fitch commented on the post below, expressing doubt that we’ll end with a Haussmann-style boulevard on Broadway: What is…
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Oct. 22, 2019 / Gordon Price

Broadway: Awaiting Transformation

As noted below, the Expo Line, which opened in 1985, has transformed the corridor along which it runs, especially at…
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Oct. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Grand Bargain, Illustrated

  You won’t likely find “The Grand Bargain” in a planning text, even though it explains in a phrase the…
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Oct. 16, 2019 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot in Victoria – 3: Harris Green

From Daily Scot: Walking through Victoria’s Harris Green neighbourhood located just east of downtown, you witness first hand the city’s…
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Oct. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Panel: What’s the Use of Heritage? – Oct 9

Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage? Conversation #2: What do we do about neighbourhoods? Some argue that “neighbourhood…
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Oct. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Portland Has a Choice: Garages or Low Prices?

The latest from Michael Anderson at the Sightline Institute: For three years, Portland’s proposal to re-legalize fourplexes citywide has been…
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Oct. 02, 2019 / Gordon Price

Absurdity of the Week

Maybe, actually, the development absurdity of the year. An application has come in to build a five-storey commercial building on…
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Oct. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

The World’s Newest Airport: Beijing’s Starfish

Daxing Airport, Beijing’s second international, opened to the public on September 26.  Drop dead gorgeous. Imagine flying from here to,…
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Oct. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

City Beautiful: “Is Vancouver the best city in North America?”

The latest urbanist commentary from ‘City Beautiful.’ Answer: Mostly, with one rather substantial qualification.  (And the pronunciation.)  …
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Sep. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Just possibly the worst sidewalk to navigate in downtown

A major entrance to Pacific Centre Mall off Dunsmuir Street: Scaffolding clutters the space, but that’s temporary.  The real problem…
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Sep. 16, 2019 / Gordon Price

Gastown in 1964

Via Durning, a  gentle black-and-white video from the CBC Vancouver program the 7 O’CLOCK SHOW special series on “Urbanism.”  (Click…
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Sep. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

A Change of Scale: Cambie and King Ed

In the recent history of Vancouver, it’s unusual when the built-out parts of the city – places where people happily…
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Sep. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rebuilding West Davie

As a consequence of the West End Community Plan of 2013, there is a massive rebuilding of the blocks on…
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Aug. 28, 2019 / Gordon Price

Case Study Highrise

It’s said that this is the greatest architectural photo ever: It’s Julius Shulman’s 1960 photo of Case Study House 22…

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