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Jun. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

Reimagining Surrey City Centre – Jun 15

SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and SFU Public Square are hosting “Beyond COVID: Reimagining Our City Centres!”  Sign…
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Jun. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Apartments on Side Streets – A Long-time Tradition

Last week, Sun writer Dan Fumano wrote a column that asked: The idea that apartment buildings should be built along…
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Jun. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

An Uncrossable Line in Vancouver

As with most things involving housing in Vancouver, there were probably several reasons why this motion by councillor Christine Boyle…
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Jun. 01, 2021 / Gordon Price

Excellence and Embarrassment on Burrard Inlet

The World Landscape Architecture Awards just announced the winners from over 400 international entries.  Here’s the best in the ‘Built…
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Jun. 01, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Seattle Preserved “Mid Century Modern” House For Sale: Never Out of Style

  No one can quite agree when midcentury modern architecture and furniture became popular.  Historians classify it anywhere from  1933…
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May. 25, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Cornelia Oberlander 1921-2021 : The Icon & My Friend

There are some people that you never expect to pass, people that you know and see as the fabric of…
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May. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

Little Island in the Big Apple

Another major public space – a combo of park, art and outdoor theatre – opens this weekend in New York…
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May. 21, 2021 / Gordon Price

Small Changes – One Block of Helmcken Street

Another pandemic-created space in one block of Helmcken between Mainland and Hamilton, in the heart of Yaletown: A block has…
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May. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

Los Angeles (Re)discovers the Missing Middle

One of Vancouver’s Sister Cities is Los Angeles (yup, LA) – a city that builds fewer new homes per capita…
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May. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Michael von Hausen’s latest: “New Pathways to Approvals”

From Michael von Hausen – the latest book from one of the pre-eminent urban designers in Canada, both a big-vision…
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May. 10, 2021 / Gordon Price

More evidence that we’re no longer in Motordom

The Urban Development Institute did a webinar on Translink’s 2050 planning process – including some polls along the way.  Here’s…
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May. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Downtown Waterfront Visionaries – Lance Berelowitz

  This is a version of a presentation that planner, urban designer and writer Lance Berelowitz made during SFU’s Lunch…
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May. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

Downtown Waterfront Visionaries – Mary Pynenburg

From the Downtown Waterfront Working Group: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver campus, recently hosted two significant and destined-to-be-influential dialogues on the…
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Apr. 30, 2021 / Gordon Price

Design Theme for the Broadway SkyTrain Stations: Ultra-Bland

The Daily Hive has posted renderings of the proposed SkyTrain stations along the Broadway line.  What a disappointment for such…

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