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Sep. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

SFU City Program: Real Estate Development

If you work with real estate developers or want to understand how the development industry functions, this course offers an…
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Sep. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

Public Salon: Alain Bertaud on “Order Without Design”

Alain Bertaud has spent his life observing and advising fifty cities around the world. These experiences have lead him to…
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Sep. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

Heritage Vancouver Walking Tour: The Pandemic-Era City and Beyond

What is the heritage of an event that has impacted our lives so profoundly? On this two-hour tour around downtown…
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Aug. 31, 2021 / Gordon Price

My Most Valued and Valuable Book

It’s been sixty years since this book was printed:   Yes, a first-edition (paperback) of the 1961 book that transformed…
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Aug. 31, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Paris Goes 30 Km/h Everywhere: Here’s Why We Should Too

  Paris is implementing what other European cities like Brussels Belgium, Grenoble and Lille France, and Bilbao Spain are already…
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Aug. 30, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

George Challenger & World’s Largest Map Making a Welcome Comeback

Our Man of Municipalities, CBC journalist and reporter Justin McElroy posted the photo below on social media. Mr. McElroy is…
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Aug. 27, 2021 / Gordon Price

How Do We Talk About Senakw?

We’ve never found a way to talk about Tssawwassen Mills. It’s that giant auto-dependent single-use shopping complex on the way…
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Aug. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

Appreciating G’Ville

In the next few years, the City will be constructing the Granville Bridge Connector – a safe and seamless route…
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Aug. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

Urban Lunch – Bruce Haden, Oliver Hartleben, Gordon Price – Aug 26

Gordon Price is a former Vancouver City Councilor, the founder of Viewpoint Vancouver and the former Director of City Program at…
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Aug. 20, 2021 / Gordon Price

Burnabyism – 3: Observations from Ann McAfee

Ann McAfee was a planner with the City of Vancouver from 1974 to 2006, notably as Co-Director of Planning with…
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Aug. 18, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Versus Burnaby: Selling Place & Context, Or Towers Above Clouds?

Gordon Price  has been writing about Burnabyism and how the Grand Bargain is being enacted, with point towers on podiums…
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Aug. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Curator of Bentall Centre

Chuck We is a curator. His gallery is the Bentall Centre. As a Senior VP, Western Canada, for Hudson Properties,…
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Aug. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

SFU City Program: City 101 +

This fall, explore how cities and communities work and change over time. Join the City Program for the online CITY100…
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Aug. 16, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Study Says: Ride A Bike, Be Happier, Smarter & Live Longer

  Even though bicycle advocates have been saying this for decades, Danish researchers have just published  a study  on what…

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