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Apr. 02, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Beach Avenue Vancouver, 1974

Beach Avenue looking west & Aquatic Centre August 3 1974   If anyone ever wanted to look at what priority…
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Feb. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

What to do with Blocked Vancouver Sidewalks & What They Do in London

Writer and blogger Stanley Woodvine @sqwabb  has posted this photo of  a construction site in the 1400 block of Broadway…
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Feb. 18, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Icepick is back. Meeting Feb 18.

From the Downtown Waterfront Working Group: In 2015, Toronto-based developer Cadillac Fairview attempted to get approval for a 26 storey…
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Feb. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What to do with underground parking – 2

Another example from Ian Robertson.  From Commercial Real Estate: As public transport usage among Sydney’s CBD workforce surges, and the…
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Feb. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 4: Random Acts of Density

Stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland does a backgrounder on The Grand Bargain and what Vancouverites (City and Metro) should know about…
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Feb. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

SFU City Conversation: Golf Courses, or Housing & Parks? – Feb 20

There’s a new proposal to convert half of each of Vancouver’s three city-owned golf courses to up to 10,000 homes,…
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Feb. 04, 2020 / Gordon Price

“Healthy Place Making”in Vancouver

Fred London* visited Vancouver in 2018 as one of 12 case studies on ‘Healthy Place-Making‘ – the title of his…
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Feb. 03, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Designed for Whom? How Architecture & Vehicle Trends Are the Cultural Clash

There’s a trend in city architecture and in North American vehicle purchase that tests how we view ourselves and what…
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Jan. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

East and West, Singapore and Burnaby

Last November, PT did a series on the development of Brentwood station area (Burnaby Builds a City, starting here) –…
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Jan. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Surprising Stats: What’s happening in Squamish?

The North Shore News just reported on a release from BC Stats of its annual population change estimates.  No surprise…
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Jan. 28, 2020 / Laura Beattie

Who’s Not Here? Reflecting on a Dialogue about Public Spaces

Who’s not here? This was one of the main questions posed on November 21, 2019 to a room filled with…
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Jan. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 2: Who Grows Where

  (Click on headline above for illustrations.) We asked stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland to do a background on The Grand…
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Jan. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Not-So-Grand Bargain, as seen from above

The New York Times published a wonderfully interactive perspective on “A Decade of Urban Transformation” – the changes in the…
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Dec. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Larry Cudney’s Revenge – The Story of the Vancouver Special

A big shout-out to author Jesse Donaldson: “Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate” is a fun, fascinating…

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