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Apr. 28, 2007 / Gordon Price

Transformation of Pacific Boulevard

It’s happening!  At least one section of Pacific Boulevard – the surface expressway that runs through Yaletown – is being…
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Apr. 27, 2007 / Gordon Price

Trampe the Bicycle Lift – Trondheim Norway I’m note sure why there’s been this sudden spate of bicycle videos (or…
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Apr. 25, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Importance of Beauty

Here’s Planning Director Brent Toderian’s latest blog entry at Planetizen: The Importance of Beauty: A Personal and Professional Perspective…
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Apr. 24, 2007 / Gordon Price

Fietsen – NFTA Thanks to Rob Richings – Internet cycling sleuth – for these bike promotion ads from the Netherlands…
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Apr. 24, 2007 / Gordon Price

Gordon Campbell Disconnect

Our Premier was interviewed on the BBC at the beginning of April. Here’s what jumped out for me: I am…
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Apr. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

American Wisdom

The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman talks and writes in sound bites: clever distillations of his thinking that, at…
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Apr. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Canadian Wisdom

Larry Beasley was speaking at a forum – “Framing a Capital City” – at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.  Here’s…
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Apr. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

How Dense Can They Be?

Knute Berger, a writer for Crosscuit’s Mossback section, throws some cold water on the over-heated praise for places like, well,…
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Apr. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Standard Argument

Those with a stake in more and wider roads have relied on the Standard Argument (the one the Province is…
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Apr. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

Mad Over Ad

The art may be coming down (see below), but something far more controversial will be going up: …the Squamish Nation…
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Apr. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

Wake

I can’t believe that the Jaquar is coming down already!  John Henry’s brilliant red sculpture has dominated the entrance to…
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Apr. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Three-Storey Story, Chapter Two

Last November, I wrote a post (here) on the dilemma of the three-storey walk-up, the plain stucco boxes that proliferated…
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Apr. 12, 2007 / Gordon Price

Esplanade (Portland, Oregon) Why people love Portland (and not just cyclists).…
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Apr. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

Bell Tolls for Free

What happens when one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever…

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