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Feb. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Intersectionality 2: – Cambie and Broadway

It was never a landmark, but the two-storey building on the southwest corner of Cambie and Broadway was well-known merely…
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Jan. 31, 2019 / Gordon Price

Intersectionality: Four Spaces, One Corner – Davie and Burrard

In a city as fast-changing as Vancouver, at a time when a big downtown office-building boom is underway, what stays…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Council to World — Let’s Change Granville Bridge

Council has unanimously supported directing staff to report on how to change the Granville Bridge, with design recommendations and costs.…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Gordon Price

Seattle: No Viaduct, No Viadoom … No Highway?

The short-term closure of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle a few weeks ago was predicted to result in massive…
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Jan. 25, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Overbuilt and Underused — Granville Bridge

Changes are in the wind for Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, planned in the 1950’s as a downtown freeway component (like the…
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Jan. 24, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

World of Renting

More than 50% of households in Vancouver rent their home, and the vacancy rate is below 1%. Here’s an another…
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Jan. 23, 2019 / Gordon Price

Spending and Sending Messages on the 800-Block Robson

For all of Vancouver’s history, one thing has been invariably true: we prize our public spaces, our parks and waterfront…
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Jan. 21, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Should Views to the “Van East Cross” Public Art Installation be Protected?

Thirty years ago the Public Art Program began at the City of Vancouver. It has supported local talent with  88% of…
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Jan. 18, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File: When Feuding Neighbours are Rock Stars

It turns out that famous rock stars have similar neighbour complaints when undergoing renovations in their personal houses. The difference…
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Jan. 15, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Zoning, Consulting, and the Citywide Plan

Coming to Vancouver City Council from staff sometime real soon now are the parameters of a Citywide Plan process.  It…
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Jan. 09, 2019 / Colin Stein

Delft: The Whiff of Possibility (video)

Our friends at small places have produced another multi-sensory feast of city cycling splendour, this time featuring Delft, Netherlands —…
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Dec. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

Merry Vancouver Christmas, PT Readers

This Christmas card from the 50s via the Museum of Vancouver is just the thing for PT.  It looks west…
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Dec. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

It’s Not the Building, It’s the Message

  So far, the opposition has the momentum – to newer, denser development in the region. The District of North…
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Dec. 18, 2018 / Gordon Price

Moving away from Motordom is not a fad

The New York Times noticed that in some big cities, something radical is happening: Oslo plans to ban all cars…

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