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Oct. 17, 2017 / Gordon Price

SFU City Program – Fall Courses

Designing and Drafting Design Guidelines October 26, 2017, SFU Vancouver Instructors: Neal LaMontagne, Oliver Hartleben Good urban design—from the building…
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Oct. 13, 2017 / Scot Bathgate

Daily Scot – Urban Agriculture – Part 2

Yesterday I profiled a bountiful urban garden on the rooftop of Quebec City’s Hôtel du Vieux and asked the question:…
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Oct. 12, 2017 / Scot Bathgate

Daily Scot – Urban Agriculture – Part 1

With the seemly relentless attack on the Agricultural Land Reserve from Mega Malls, Port development, speculators and farmland banking from…
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Oct. 11, 2017 / Scot Bathgate

Daily Scot – Westside Infill

Continuing on the small scale infill theme (see previous posts in the series here and here) we travel to the…
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Oct. 11, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: From Chinatown to Metrotown

Durning picks up another piece from The Guardian by author Madeleine Thien: Vancouver’s Chinatown came into being in the 1880s…
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Oct. 10, 2017 / Scot Bathgate

Daily Scot – Eastside Infill

I came across these interesting small scale infill projects while walking to a friends house in East Van a few…
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Oct. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: Pioneering Intersection Design in North America

In 2014, Vancouver pioneered a first in North American intersection design: protected phasing. At the south end of the Burrard…
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Oct. 07, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Gastown Streets — More Than Repairs?

With visions of a car-light area in Gastown, City of Vancouver is consulting residents on a transportation area plan. Tour…
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Oct. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Friday Funny: Bike lane design from all over

From John Graham: So thoughtful the way they ended the bike lane into the guard rail in case the curb didn’t…
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Oct. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: This is Not About a Bike Lane

One of the biggest undertakings in the Burrard Bridge project was one we never really saw.  And it had nothing…
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Oct. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

You can Strata that Laneway House~And Other Zoning Changes in Vancouver

There are some big changes coming  to Vancouver zoning as reported   in Metro News. You can read through the reports on changes…
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Oct. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

"It's Not Rocket Science, It's Political"~Jennifer Keesmaat teaching @ U of Toronto

In what will surely be a well subscribed course, the University of Toronto has announced that  Jennifer Keesmaat will be teaching in…
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Oct. 04, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: Contribute to Our Photographic Celebration

Price Tags is hosting an online exhibition for great images of Burrard Bridge – ones our readers have in their…
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Oct. 04, 2017 / Gordon Price

Burrard Bridge: Always Controversial

City Engineer Jerry Dobrovolny, when asked about controversy surrounding changes to the Burrard Bridge, notes that this has always been…

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