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May. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Sharing Space at English Bay

Beach Avenue Flow Way at English Bay – Sunday afternoon on May 5th. Another interesting real-time vignette: Beach Flow Way…
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May. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

Oakland’s Open Streets: How they do it, what they look like

Thank you, Streetfilms, for a close-up look at what Oakland, California’s ‘Open Streets’ look like.  The lessons for Vancouver are…
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Apr. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Davie Queue Lane

We’re going to need a list of descriptors for the different kind of lanes that are being improvised to respond…
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Apr. 25, 2020 / Gordon Price

Where It Began: the Chilco Cul-de-Sac

This is the view that inspires me. I not only appreciate the privilege, I appreciate the irony.  I’m an urbanist…
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Apr. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Recommendations for Reallocation: MoTI makes the leap

Guess who has come out with a quick response on how to design for our changing street uses in the…
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Apr. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

Cllr Lisa Dominato on slow streets: “A little bit more”

From News1130: She’s the first to say anything.  Testing the waters.  And “a little bit more” is one step up…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

How to make a street safe for hopscotch

From Ian Robertson: My neighbours have done their part to making walking fun again. Fun to see grownups doing hopscotch…
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Apr. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Priorities for Flow Streets

A work in progress from Aaron Licker, By taking available data on population density overlaid with access to public and…
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Apr. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Kitsilano Flow Way

What can be done – quickly – to solve the problem illustrated in the post below: unsafe crowding, as walkers,…
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Apr. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

Tactical Urbanism as Government Policy

A report from Forbes (‘Capitalist Tool’) of all sources: Cities as diverse as Berlin and Bogotá are using so-called “tactical…
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Apr. 12, 2020 / Gordon Price

How to Design a Neighbourhood Flow Street

  Now is the time to adapt our existing streets, especially the greenways and relief roads, to accommodate a multitude…
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Apr. 11, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Density Diversion – 1

  A totally confident prediction: those opposed to increasing density (any multi-family development), using road space for bikeways and greenways…
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Apr. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

How We Safely Space on a Street

It’s near the height of cherry blossom season, there are only so many beautiful springs in one’s life, and we…
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Apr. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

A World Redesigned: The Office

  At PT we’re thinking about how the world is being reshaped by the impact of Covid19.  While there may…

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