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Feb. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

Panel – Urban Resilience: New Realities

Urban Resilience: New Realities Part of the Pandemonium: Urban Studies and Recovering from COVID-19 lecture series. Wednesday, February 24 5:00 PM Online…
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Feb. 23, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Black Porters’ Quarters on Richards Street

It’s Black History Month – and Michael Gordon adds this contribution: Those of us old enough to remember can recall…
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Feb. 22, 2021 / Gordon Price

Urban design challenge: Georgia and Granville

It’s the No. 1 intersection in Vancouver: Granville and Georgia.  Canada Line, SkyTrain and major bus routes, department stores, banks…
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Feb. 19, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Symmetry of the 800-block Robson

The permanent closure of the 800-block Robson and its redesign (close to the original vision of architect Arthur Erickson) must…
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Feb. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: What’s with the snowpeople?

Dianna, our inquiring mind, has an inquiry: OK, Canadian natives, I have a question for you. What’s with the topknots…
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Feb. 17, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Lego Evolution From Boys Toy to Universal STEM Building Blocks

Seven years ago Charlotte Benjamin wrote a hand printed letter to the Lego company talking about her visit to the…
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Feb. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stopping change (of any kind) in Grandview

It doesn’t matter whether proposals for new housing in Grandview are massive or tiny, there’s a desire or a way…
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Feb. 16, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Good/Bad of Supertalls~Shangri-La Tower & 432 Park Avenue NYC~David Grigg Responds

This week I wrote about Vancouver’s Shangri-La  Tower which at 201 meters is the tallest tower in Vancouver. A “supertall”…
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Feb. 16, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Starchitect Coming to Improve Vancouver’s “Sterile & Boring” Tower Design

  Vancouver is soon to have a new edition of the starchitect interpretation of building with London England’s  Heatherwick Studio’s…
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Feb. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

How a Bikeway is Transforming Richards Street

As we’ve noted for the last few weeks on Instagram @gordonpriceyvr, the transformation of Richards Street is remarkable.  Once a…
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Feb. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Greatest Change in the “Changing City”

Who doesn’t like a good aerial to start the week – this one from the go-to website of “Changing City”…
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Feb. 15, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Failing Windows of the Shangri-La & the Foreboding of the Supertalls

Ever wondered what  is a “supertall building” and  how that differs from a “megatall” tower? The Council of Tall Buildings…
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Feb. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

No Rush Hour, No Transit? The Pandemic Ultimatum

An insightful survey from Slate: The prevailing sense of doom comes from a dawning awareness that the old workday travel…
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Feb. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Joe Sulmona: Why Tolling is Not Going to Happen in BC

There’s been an active comment section to this post on mobility pricing (some of it even on topic) – but…

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