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Jun. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

White City Alert: We Need a Name

Hopefully, PT readers are following my exploration of Tel Aviv’s White City on Instagram. As mentioned in the leading post…
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Jun. 02, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanist Abroad: Three Weeks in the White City

For most of June, the Price in Price Tags will be far away.  Mostly in Tel Aviv.  More specifically, in…
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May. 29, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our Fallen Tower

From this: October 2018   To this: May 2019  …
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May. 17, 2019 / Gordon Price

Tough Questions I Wanted To Ask

[Update: Do read Geoff’s comment at the end of this post.  Powerful and provocative.]   SFU Vancouver – the downtown…
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May. 15, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our Falling and Rising Towers

A certain synchronicity: Just as Vancouver House on one side of the peninsula is being completed, the Landmark on the…
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May. 14, 2019 / Gordon Price

Oberlander Legacy: The Look of Vancouver

Sandy James’s post on Cornelia Oberlander – “the First Lady of Canadian Landscape Design” – is so apropos at this…
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May. 13, 2019 / Gordon Price

What’s the best layout for a subway car?

TransLink was recently asking Vancouverites for suggestions on the best seating design for new SkyTrain cars.  Hopefully they saw this…
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May. 09, 2019 / Gordon Price

Has The Jetsons Finally Arrived?

Seattle’s Crosscut columnist Knute Berger thinks it might be – in this piece: Is Seattle freeing itself from the automobile…
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May. 08, 2019 / Gordon Price

Panel: Best High Street Design – May 29

Information and registration here.…
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May. 07, 2019 / Gordon Price

Always-Better Bikeways

While the focus on cycling infrastructure is, as it should be, on expanding the network (#ungapthemap) or on the latest…
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May. 01, 2019 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Forum: Life Beyond Death (in RS-1)

Michael Alexander sends highlights from the recent Urbanarium discussion, provocatively titled “The Single-Family Zone Is Dead. What Next?”   Planner/developer…
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Apr. 30, 2019 / Gordon Price

Warren Gill Lecture: Can we bridge the urban-rural divide? – May 16

This year’s annual Warren Gill Lecture series will be presented by Mary Rowe who will speak on Canada’s Enduring Two…
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Apr. 29, 2019 / Gordon Price

The New Mobility – and Scooter Virgins

TransLink is hosting regional conversations on Transport 2050, the latest version of its strategic plan.  Last week at a packed…
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Apr. 25, 2019 / Gordon Price

Streetview Nostagia: YVR / NYC

Now that Google’s Streetview has been in operation for a decade, and conveniently provides its available archive with each image,…

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