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Jun. 16, 2017 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Sprawl, Parking and Office Parks

From the Toronto Star: The Toronto region needs to stop building office parks surrounded by giant, parking lots on the…
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Jun. 16, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

When Cars Cross the Line in Ottawa

Pedestrians as walkers and as people using the street generally are quite polite about it, because the consequences of being…
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Jun. 15, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

East Hastings Vancouver's Most Walkable Street?

The Vancouver Sun and writer Harrison Mooney outline the Strathcona Business Improvement Association’s (SBIA)  plan to make East Hastings Street Vancouver’s…
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Jun. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Back to the Drawing Board for Chinatown's 105 Keefer Street

In a not surprising but still stunning reversal  the proposed 12 storey tower by Beedie Development on Keefer Street was…
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Jun. 14, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Point Grey Road Progress

More design elements of the finished PGR are coming in to view.  Here, a decorative lamp post, reminiscent of the…
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Jun. 12, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Arbutus Greenway — Rainbow Rocks

The Greenway, now steadily emerging from derelict railroad tracks, has it’s first Vancouver Biennale art installation:  “Rainbow Rocks On the…
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Jun. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Children Can't Detect Car Speed over 32 km/h

The Telegraph follows up on a subject covered earlier in Price Tags-studies conducted at universities are showing that children have perceptual limitations…
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Jun. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Chinatown under "Siege for Densification?"

It has been an interesting time to read the different viewpoints being expressed about the proposed 12 storey Beedie development…
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Jun. 11, 2017 / jamesavbligh

Remarks on the draft design of Northeast False Creek Park

“The gentrification of Chelsea was under way long before the High Line, although the park certainly helped to establish as…
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Jun. 09, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Heritage On Arbutus Greenway

Bits of the old CPR remain here and there on the constantly emerging (if temporary) Arbutus Greenway.  Even as new…
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Jun. 08, 2017 / Gordon Price

Vancouverism on the North Shore

Lonsdale and 13th is becoming the anchor intersection of Upper Lonsdale in the City of North Vancouver – at least…
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Jun. 07, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Arbutus Greenway — Hints

While we impatiently await the major design material due in the fall, I’m sort of getting a better sense of…
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Jun. 07, 2017 / Gordon Price

Sorry. Main Street, Tuesday afternoon

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Jun. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Greener Streets

Every year, the same question: Was the Vancouver landscape really as lush last year as it seems to be now?…

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