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Mar. 09, 2021 / Gordon Price

Another Traffic High for Vancouver

We don’t have many Traffic Highs in this city, so those we do feel extra special. Like the downhill slope…
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Mar. 08, 2021 / Gordon Price

The End of Rush Hour?

Why would we keep rush hour if there’s an option?  And as we’ve collectively discovered during the pandemic, there is. …
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Mar. 08, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Stanley Park-Park Board Commissioners Pit Cars Against Bikes

The history of Stanley Park has been one of changing uses and adaptation throughout the 20th century. There used to…
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Mar. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Rail Transit is no guarantee of success in America

For the last three decades, American cities have promoted, planned and built Transit-Oriented Developments – predominantly housing projects on land…
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Mar. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

Colour in Our Housing

In the post below – Colour in Our Social Housing – Daily Scot found examples of good modest design in…
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Mar. 04, 2021 / Gordon Price

Urbanarium Studio: Innovation for Public Washrooms – Mar 10

What do public washroom facilities look like in just, green and thoughtful cities? Access to public washrooms is a basic…
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Mar. 04, 2021 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot – Colour in Our Social Housing

Scot has lamented (for years!) the lack of colour in our architecture. (Here’s an explanation from a PT post in…
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Mar. 02, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Study Shows Why Cities Need to Encourage Cycling to Drastically Lower Emissions

While everyone knows that active transportation is good for you, there has been little data on exactly how much carbon…
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Mar. 02, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Photographic Genius Stanley Woodvine Straightens Vancouver House Curve

Graphic artist and writer Stanley Woodvine has a good eye for design and form and he has achieved what so…
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Mar. 01, 2021 / Gordon Price

Recommended: “The Address Book”

Here’s a recommendation for a book I haven’t even finished yet. Yes, a whole book about street addressing.  It’s like…
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Mar. 01, 2021 / Gordon Price

SFU Panel: Reimagining City Streets and the Public Realm – Mar 4

Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:30 pm Register now Join us at the fifth event of The Future We Want: The Change…
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Mar. 01, 2021 / Gordon Price

Fun with Statistics: The Pop Clock

For data nerds out there, this must be familiar – but for those who haven’t seen Canada’s population clock from…
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Feb. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

The End of the Beginning: Single-Family Zoning in Berkeley

From Planetizen: The Berkeley City Council, the very first city in the United States to implement single-family zoning, now commonly referred to…
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Feb. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

How wide should a bike lane be?

We date contemporary ‘bike lane’ design back to the 1970s, when a cycling wave hit Europe and North America.  Here’s…

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