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Sep. 12, 2007 / Gordon Price

Google Your Campus

Dave Peterson passed along news of this intriguing competition from “The Official Google Blog”: Show us your university campus in…
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Aug. 22, 2007 / Gordon Price

New York Challenge

Planning Director Brent Toderian thinks Vancouver’s designers should take this New York challenge to heart. It’s in this issue of…
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Aug. 17, 2007 / Gordon Price

Going Viral

Walkscore, the Sightline Institute-inspired mechanism to measure the walkability of your neighbourhood, has, as they say, gone viral on the…
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Aug. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

So Cool It Hurts

From the Sightline Institute:  Three Seattle uber-hackers, Jesse Kocher, Matt Lerner, and Mike Mathieu, built this addicting new website. It…
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Jun. 20, 2007 / Gordon Price

Ridgemont Typologies

Photographer Mark Luthringer captures the suburban American Dream here.…
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Jun. 20, 2007 / Gordon Price

New New York

New Yorkophile?  Check out this.…
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Jun. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Is Geen Just the Colour of Money?

Do you have to be rich to be green? Sustainability, it seems, is associated with affluence – at least if…
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Jun. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

Cascadia Scorecard

Are you better off? Cascadia Scorecard 2007 gives British Columbia its annual check-up. Sightline’s annual state-of-the-region report finds some big…
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Jun. 09, 2007 / Gordon Price

Toderian on the Iconic

Brent Toderian, the City’s Planning Director, has posted the latest entry on Planetizen’s blog here. (Isn’t it nice to have…
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Jun. 03, 2007 / Gordon Price

Sustainability as National Defence

 My Business in Vancouver column this week: Leaders need to view sustainability as a policy of national defence More than…

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