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Aug. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Silly signage

From the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices by the Ministry of Silly Walks:…

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Aug. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

David Sucher critiques the Olympic Village

David Sucher, author of City Comforts and Seattle urban blogger, has done an intriguing critique of the Olympic Village. Though…

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Jul. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Chalk Guy

More amazing work from Edgar Mueller, German street artist: A video on the making of The Crevasse, above: . And…

Jul. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Obscene art

Fabian Brunsing’s public art installation “Pay & Sit: The Private Bench” imagines a dystopian tomorrow in which even the most…

Jul. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Board of Trade goes viral

This morning, I already had two messages of this note from Jan Pezarro: During the 2010 Winter Games Metro Vancouver…

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Jun. 24, 2010 / Gordon Price

Everyone’s a critic

I’m a big fan of public art, particularly when I’m in transit – literally in the case of the Canada…

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Jun. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Gold for Green

I referenced this article – originally published by the Urban Land Institute in its excellent journal “Urban Land” – on…

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Jun. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Allez les bleus

If there was any doubt (and there really isn’t) that the seawall is our greatest public place, there was another…

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Jun. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Art in SF

They go for the monumental when they do public art in San Francisco. Most notably, this piece – Three Heads,…

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May. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

More change at City Hall

A few additions to the City Hall post below. The Canada Line station has some cutsey public art: the always-popular…

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May. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Digital Orca

Some of the best public art in the city is being mounted on the plazas of the new convention centre. …

May. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Looking back into the future

Here’s a column I wrote for Business in Vancouver, published in July 2001. It’s my forecast for the built legacy…

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Apr. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver’s Green Gold

ULI’s Urban Land magazine has just published a piece on Vancouver’s Olympic transportation experience. Martin Zimmerman’s piece provides a remarkable…

Apr. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Post-Game Analysis

Even before the Olympics were over, we at the SFU City Program knew it would be fascinating to get some…

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