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May. 21, 2009 / Gordon Price

A Post-Motordom World

Off to the BC Land Summit in Whistler for a few days.  The subject of our panel (with Deborah Curran and…
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May. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

Truth in coolness

Here’s a site, recommended byMichael Geller, that lives up to its name: It’s “a blog on crowdsourcing places for creatives,”…
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Apr. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Spring Arrivals: Convention Centre

It’s good.  Very, very good.  As a convention centre, it might even be great, operationally.  As architecture, though, it isn’t.  It’s…
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Mar. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

Spring Arrivals – 2

More geometry at Concord Pacific: People are moving into Coopers Landing, just east of the Cambie Bridge, west of what’s…
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Mar. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

“Mother Nature doesn’t do bailouts”

Says Tom Friedman in this Sunday’s New York Times: Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of…
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Mar. 07, 2009 / Gordon Price

Gift City

Bruce Branit’s exquisite little video, World Builder – “A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman…
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Mar. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Boddy versus Duany

New Urbanist Andres Duany and Vancouver critic Trevor Boddy talk past each other in the current issue of Arcade (out…
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Mar. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Shift That Form!

It’s a competition: “FormShift Vancouver challenges you to … design solutions that will help shape the future of the city. …
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Feb. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Tear down that Viaduct

Paul Hillsdon makes a case for removing the Georgia Viaduct.  And includes some great shots:…
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Feb. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Laneway Housing

Had a chance to meet with Jake Fry, one of the principles of Smallworks in his shop in the Southlands (above), right…
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Feb. 03, 2009 / Gordon Price

Wendy’s coming to town

And she won’t be happy if you don’t come to see her. Wendy Sarkissian is an award-winning planner and author of…
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Feb. 02, 2009 / Gordon Price

Vancouver by Google

It’s arrived.  Google Earth has been massing buildings in 3-D perspective for some time now – and for some cities they…
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Jan. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Give My Regards …

Lisa Brideau sends along a link to every streetcorner in Manhattan: Photographer Richard Howe has indeed captured every intersection in…
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Jan. 24, 2009 / Gordon Price

I wanna live on Tilly Street

Lots of great comments under “One Last Loop,” notably this one from John Wilson: “Why does there need to be…

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