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Sep. 30, 2019 / Gordon Price

Josh Kepkay’s Podcast: “What the Future Holds with Gordon Price”

Josh Kepkay is a realtor, and now a podcaster – an opportunity, of course, to increase his profile while having…
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Sep. 27, 2019 / Gordon Price

‘Big Moves’ will Pre-empt City-wide Plan

  The Vancouver City-wide Plan, which with its $16 million budget to fund three years of conversations and consultations, starts…
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Sep. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Worst Sidewalk- 7: Main and Union

From Ian W: Any of the already mentioned parking entrances, designed decades ago when design guidelines did not prioritize the…
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Sep. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Worst Sidewalk- 6: Howe @ Four Seasons

Guest adds another: Compare the ramp (at Dunsmuir) to the driveway/porte corchere of the Four Season Hotel in the same…
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Sep. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Worst Sidewalk- 5: Howe between West Georgia and Robson

From RLittlemore: Turn south from (Dunsmuir at Pacific Centre) and you’ll find that it’s worse yet on the east side…
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Sep. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Worst Sidewalk- 3, 4: Robson & Richards, Granville & Robson

From the ever-insightful Guest: Two places that are worse: – Robson Street (north side) just west of Richards outside the…
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Sep. 18, 2019 / Gordon Price

The Worst Sidewalk- 2: Nelson & Smithe

Well, this post was a trigger: “Just possibly the worst sidewalk to navigate in downtown.” PT readers think there are…
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Sep. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Just possibly the worst sidewalk to navigate in downtown

A major entrance to Pacific Centre Mall off Dunsmuir Street: Scaffolding clutters the space, but that’s temporary.  The real problem…
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Sep. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

A Change of Scale: Cambie and King Ed

In the recent history of Vancouver, it’s unusual when the built-out parts of the city – places where people happily…
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Sep. 10, 2019 / Gordon Price

Original Greening: How the West End went from Pavement to Plaza

Retired city planner Michael Gordon, featured in this recent PriceTalks, edited the summer issue of Sitelines, the journal of the…
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Sep. 06, 2019 / Gordon Price

A Small Exquisite Space: Where it is

Chris Son and Patrick found it: Almost everyone thought this little park with roundabout was on the West Side, the…
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Sep. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rebuilding West Davie

As a consequence of the West End Community Plan of 2013, there is a massive rebuilding of the blocks on…
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Sep. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Keep Guessing: A Small Exquisite Space

So far no one has guessed where this space with its pedestrian roundabout is located.  We’ll give you one more…
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Sep. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Where Is This Exquisite Small Space?

A pedestrian roundabout … Paths throughout the neighbourhood come together here.  Everyone circles around the centre.  Or sits down and…

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