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Jan. 16, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Making the Office Not Just Green, but Healthy for Humans Too

With the call for sustainability, why are we not seeing health benefits and energy reductions going hand in hand in…
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Jan. 12, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Bike Lane Sanity, and Nonsense

As Vancouver city council prepares to vote on Wednesday on a separated bike lane southbound on the Cambie Bridge, opinions…
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Jan. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Culture, Food Security and Development in Chinatown~

There’s an event at  Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre location with the principal author of the Hua Foundation’s Vancouver Chinatown Food…
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Jan. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

Discovered on Google: Thai Wiring

While wandering around on Google maps, the online traveller can find all kinds of intriguing things – like the sheer…
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Jan. 10, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Seattle Getting Denser

HERE‘s a video of several areas of Seattle, each filmed in a 3-year-long-interval time-lapse from the Space Needle. It reminds…
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Jan. 10, 2018 / Gordon Price

Flooding by Design – King Tides in Vancouver

It was a perfect item for visual media: the King Tide in Vancouver last week that resulted in shortline flooding…
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Jan. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Canadian Shopping Mall Report Card Released~Urban Malls are "In"

The Retail Council of Canada has released its   annual  report  on how Canada’s shopping malls are doing. Canada’s top…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / Gordon Price

Bad-Mannered Architecture

Past Planning Director Ray Spaxman circulated this comment on Sunday: It is disturbing to be living at a time when…
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Jan. 03, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning: Millennials and the "Missing Middle" in Housing Form

Tom Durning of the Daily Durning sends this article from the Washington Post which quotes our very own City of Vancouver Planner,…
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Jan. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Gordie Award for Biggest Transportation Event in 2017~The Burrard Bridge!

Today’s award  is in the Biggest Transportation Event Category.  And that award goes to the Burrard Bridge Rehabilitation Project which…
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Jan. 01, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Happy New Year from the Editors of Price Tags Vancouver

So what kind of year did Price Tags Vancouver have? There were 1,359 posts published, and 456,000 page views. Over…
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Dec. 29, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Is the Vancouver We Know Gone?

    Christopher Cheung has written an evocative piece in Metro News  that really resonates with the remarkable changes Vancouver…
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Dec. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

How to Make A Back Lane Not Just for Vehicles-was the "Country Lane" concept Just Ten Years too Soon?

You may have been  following the story of the Richmond residents living in Steveston that found out that the closed back…
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Dec. 26, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Town That Named itself "Santa Claus"

Trust The BBC News to find that there truly is a place called “Santa Claus” that is in Indiana with a population…

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