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Jan. 23, 2007 / Gordon Price

UPDATE: Waterfront Stadium

Thanks to Beyond Robson for picking up on the City staff report going to Council on Thursday, recommending the study…
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Jan. 23, 2007 / Gordon Price

COOL TOOL: Google Gapminder

Now this is fun – and quite extraordinary.    The latest Beta test from Google can be found here –…
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Jan. 22, 2007 / Gordon Price

PLUG: City Eye Photography

Vancouver is, of course, narcissitic.  And she loves being photographed.   City Eye Photography does more than cater to our fetish; it…
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Jan. 22, 2007 / Gordon Price

THE SPRAWL DEBATE: Does It Really Make You Fat?

UBC urban-planning professor Larry Frank has been on the front lines of the sprawl debate. And the current issue of…
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Jan. 22, 2007 / Gordon Price

Overload

Hands up, everyone who thinks the media have already gone overboard on Picton-trial coverage. Too late. It’ll be all Picton,…
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Jan. 21, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Fourth Assessment

In the next few weeks, the full force of Science will redefine the climate-change debate.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
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Jan. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

SEATTLE'S HIT

More praise for “the best public space in Seattle.”…
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Jan. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

MORE SUCCESSFUL VICTIMS

The New York Times piece here has, as you’d expect, generated response. Here’s an email I got from the president…
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Jan. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

Guess Where

Can you identify the city in which this house is located? Peter Simpson, the CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home…
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Jan. 19, 2007 / Gordon Price

Rochon Unabridged: Time to build outside the box

Here’s the full story that Lisa Rochon wrote in the Globe and Mail about Vancouver’s need for more iconic architure.…
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Jan. 18, 2007 / Gordon Price

THE DAILY ALARM: A DIFFERENT KIND OF SURGE

I went looking for coverage of the storm battling Europe, but found this as the lead article in The Guardian:…
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Jan. 18, 2007 / Gordon Price

SUCCESSFUL VICTIMS

The New York Times reports on the Vancouver dilemma: the Living First policy, which has encouraged more residential development downtown,…
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Jan. 17, 2007 / Gordon Price

NYT Pipeline: Who Cares About the Price of Gas?

I subscribe to the New York Times Select – the stuff you have to pay for to see on the…
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Jan. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

Duany in Vancouver

  The debate on Vancouver’s lack of iconic architecture does seem to be heating up.  Good timing, then, by The…

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