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Jan. 23, 2009 / Gordon Price

Update: Granville Loops

Richard Johnson, the planner at City Hall who came up with the concept for the North Granville Loops, sends along…

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Jan. 21, 2009 / Gordon Price

One Last Loop

We’re down to the last loop on the Granville Street Bridge. Now that a City report is recommending the reconfiguration…

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Jan. 19, 2009 / Gordon Price

Granville Reconstructed

The transformation is underway: In two or three weeks, said the delightful traffic manager on site, this block of Granville will…

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Jan. 11, 2009 / Gordon Price

Miami Beach: Florida’s West End

Peripatetic urbanist Sam Newberg (aka Joe Urban) was recently in Miami Beach and had a chance to check out the art-deco…

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Jan. 08, 2009 / Gordon Price

Signs of Change

Imagine the corner of Carrall and Hastings in the 1920s. At the B.C. Electric Railway headquarters (foreground on right), interurban…

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Jan. 06, 2009 / Gordon Price

Predictions ’09: Recessionary Taste

From the Washington Post: History hints that this downturn could change our tastes. Homes built in the 1940s and ’50s,…

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Dec. 19, 2008 / Gordon Price

Why we love our view corridors

The foot of Thurlow, from Georgia – December 14.…

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Dec. 18, 2008 / Gordon Price

New Stuff 10 – Shangri-la

It’s stunning. From Georgia and Bute in the late afternoon, when the building captures the sun and is fully lit…

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Dec. 11, 2008 / Gordon Price

Too Much …

… of a good thing: This is the winner of a design competition for Gwanggyo, a new town near Seoul,…

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Nov. 25, 2008 / Gordon Price

Seoul Green

Sam Newberg’s “Joe-Urban” newsletter just arrived in my box – always a treat. Among other items (intermodal yards in Illinois, Jan…

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Oct. 26, 2008 / Gordon Price

Obama in a lane

This is Barack Obama walking through the Honolulu neigh- bourhood in which he grew up. What struck me, in addition…

Oct. 25, 2008 / Gordon Price

Connections

Doug Saunders, the “Reckoning” columnist in the Globe and Mail columnist, can usually be counted on for some Saturday-morning insights. …

Sep. 28, 2008 / Gordon Price

Joe Urban’s View of Vancouver

Minneapolis writer Sam Newberg calls himself “Joe Urban.” For good reason: he loves looking at cities and making observations (kinda like…

Sep. 04, 2008 / Gordon Price

“Unintended Beauty”

Cities at Night – An Orbital Tour…

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