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Dec. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Do-It-Yourself Urban Design

Darryl Chen, in Urban Design journal, offers this cheeky version of ten easy steps to create an urban-design plan for,…
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Dec. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the Heat – 2

From Australian Broadcasting via Transport Newsletter 180: The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat…
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Oct. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Commando Trad on the street

Bill McCreery passes this along from a good friend in Montreal.  “Here is what urbanism is” – traditional music on…
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Oct. 24, 2010 / Gordon Price

Portland and Minneapolis – a Joe-Urban comparison

Back from a week in Portland – but didn’t have much time to take any photos.  Fortunately, Sam Newberg (“Joe…
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Oct. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Ellen Dunham-Jones in Vancouver and Surrey

The SFU City Program’s VIA Architecture Urban Design Lecture is hosting Ellen Dunham-Jones, co-author of ‘Retrofitting Suburbia.’ October 26, 7…
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Sep. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Stewart Brand on “New Urbanism”

To get a flavour of Stewart Brand’s iconoclastic thinking, check out this reprint of his anaylsis of New Urbanism here.…
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Sep. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Speaking of Sustainability

The Brand lecture is almost half full already.  Sign up now if you really plan to attend. And from our…
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Sep. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Eco-Pragmatist’s Manifesto

How have you heard about Stewart Brand? Perhaps as founder of the Whole Earth Catalog.  Or of The Well, a…
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Sep. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Give your regards to Hornby Street

Scot Bathgate, our Kiwi correspondent, sends a link for a New York Times piece on the transformation of Broadway – which should…
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Sep. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Stimulus for Your Brain

It’s almost time for the Fall Lecture season to begin. Here are some upcoming ones you might want to put in…
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Aug. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

Info Update

From Michael Alexander: While the Olympic Village and Sea-to Sky highway made the news, one of the best-used Olympic legacies…
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Aug. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Michael Geller’s Good Idea List

The peripatetic Michael Geller is back from Spain.  And he, urban observer that he is, has condensed all the good…
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Aug. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Was the Rock worth it?

SF blogger David Prowler writes about “how great Rockefeller Center is, even though it got slammed for its architecture, displaced…
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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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