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Nov. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

Highway Removal

The West is beginning to catch on: Seoul has created the most significant new public space in the world. Here’s…
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Nov. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

Hello again

I’m back. Let’s start with something hilarious from the Aussies.    Chasers – Trojan Horse…
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Nov. 04, 2006 / Gordon Price

Dream Cottages

Bob Ransford, public-affairs consultant and Homes columnist in the Sun, did a nice piece on laneway housing that you can find…
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Nov. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

A fork in the lane

Last night, Brent Toderian, the City’s new Director of Planning, explained at an SFU City Program ‘conversation,’ why he chose…
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Nov. 01, 2006 / Gordon Price

Choices

Washington, D.C. needs more Choices – and we’re not talking politics, we’re talking groceries. According to Governing magazine’s blog, the…
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Oct. 30, 2006 / Gordon Price

Salon's Guide to Literary Vancouver

My goodness: The first thing to know about Vancouver, British Columbia, is that it resembles the last, if not no…
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Oct. 30, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

That big ‘whoompf’ you heard this morning was the arrival of the 700-page report on climate change authored by former…
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Oct. 30, 2006 / Gordon Price

Dialogue

It’s so gratifying to see the responses coming in from readers, particularly the recent posts under “More or Less’ below.…
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Oct. 29, 2006 / Gordon Price

More or Less

 Chris Leinberger, an urban land-use strategist, developer and fellow at the Brookings Institute, makes an almost paradoxical point in an…
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Oct. 28, 2006 / Gordon Price

Paint Job

Everyone likes a good demolition.  There’s just something perversely gratifying about an implosion.  And ever since they blew up Pruitt Igoe…
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Oct. 25, 2006 / Gordon Price

Khenko

Khenko – the Great Blue Heron – flying above False Creek in George Wainborn Park.  Off to Spokane for a…
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Oct. 24, 2006 / Gordon Price

Kids in the city

Now Seattle, like Portland, is wondering whether it’s possible to raise children downtown.  The Post-Intelligencer explored the issue in this article:…
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Oct. 23, 2006 / Gordon Price

RATIOS

I just came across this: There’s a rule of thumb that a building is considered attractively slender if it has…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Baby has landed

Ephrem Cheng sent in this shot from the shores of False Creek:…

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