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Apr. 07, 2020 / Gordon Price

Maximizing real estate value in a pandemic

The Park Board is going to make better and safer use of the space it owns in Stanley Park: Here’s…
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Apr. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Covid Diaries~Time for the City to Open Streets, Agrees Moura Quayle

Gordon Price and I have been posting on the need to rethink open streets in the times of the Covid…
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Apr. 05, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Safe Way on the Greenway

In the post below, Price Tags is advocating that the existing and planned Greenway network be designated for both social…
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Apr. 02, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Lost Normal of Melbourne

Smith Street through Collingwood Fitzroy – 19th-century suburbs of Melbourne.  March 17, 2020.  …
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Mar. 31, 2020 / Gordon Price

How We Buy Coffee

From Dianna: How we buy coffee beans in these days – a genuine back-alley transaction. A virtual hand slap to…
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Mar. 30, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

What Streets Should Vancouver Close for Walking, Rolling & Physical Distancing?

The province of Nova Scotia has come up with the slogan “Exercise, don’t socialize” to describe the new behaviour required…
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Mar. 30, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Cherry Blossom Time in Vancouver

Photographer Ken Ohrn captures Sylvia Ohrn walking in local blossom splendour. I have previously written about Cherry Blossom Madness  and…
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Mar. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Cherry Blossoms in Vancouver during the Physical Distancing Era

Photographer Ken Ohrn ponders~if the cherry tree blossoms in the spring, will anybody know?…
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Mar. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Covid~19, Playing Alone & Why Parks are So Important

Why do we think we can only use parks in  groups of people? As Philadelphia Inquirer’s Inga Saffron writes, as…
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Mar. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

How does the New “Oneness” Change Thinking of Public Space?

Daphne Bramham in the Vancouver Sun and Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times work through what we are all…
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Mar. 11, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Canada Goose Zamboni Adaptation Outstanding in the Field

There’s nothing more Canadian than a Canada Goose, perhaps with the exception of a Zamboni. The Zamboni is a rideable…
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Feb. 25, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Karate English Bay Style

  An Iconic English Bay moment captured by photographer Ken Ohrn, with Stanley Park and the North Shore Mountains in…
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Feb. 19, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Harper Strategy Fails in Australia

When Prime Minister Harper visited the Arctic on one of his several trips – once for 16 days – the…
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Feb. 18, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia in a Time of Trauma

For the next month, I’ll be in Australia, returning to the island continent for the 11th time, and to the…

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