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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

Quote of the Day

From the opening episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: MATT We make some budget cuts, we shoot in…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

Mid-century Modern

I live in a 1957 highrise in the West End – as mid-century modern as you can get.  And I…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

A Heavy Load

Paul Krueger, now a planner with the City of Vancouver, sent a new report from the States on the link…
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Oct. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

The gap between leaders in Europe and North America on the issue of climate change is staggering. British Prime Minister…
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Oct. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

The End of "Suburbia"

I’m back!  Great trip to LA and Minneapolis (more about the former in an upcoming Price Tags – www.pricetags.ca)  In…
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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

What's the Difference ….

What’s the difference between Barcelona and Vancouver?  Here’s a comparison of our rapid-transit systems to the same scale:              You can…
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Oct. 03, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

From today’s Sun: Another 7,000 kilometres of coastline in the Atlantic provinces, British Columbia and western Arctic are said to…
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Oct. 02, 2006 / Gordon Price

Woodwards Rollover

Just in case you miss the update below, you must click here to see Yun Lam Li’s video of the…
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Oct. 02, 2006 / Gordon Price

Pretty and Pointless

Here’s what a road map of Richmond looks like when every kind of street is given a different colour.  Crescents…
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Oct. 02, 2006 / Gordon Price

Urban Design in Action

Problem: a couple of badly sited Hydro boxes in front of Elsie Roy School near the Roundhouse.    Scot Hein,…
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Oct. 01, 2006 / Gordon Price

Another Good Question

What happened to car alarms? I may be totally wrong on this – especially since we moved to a quieter…
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Sep. 30, 2006 / Gordon Price

Go Boom, Fall Down

Woodwards, a homegrown department store, was once the anchor of the Downtown East Side.   When it closed, it took the economic…
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Sep. 29, 2006 / Gordon Price

Good Question

What happened to the buskers?  A few years ago, Robson Street was awash in musicians, and not just on weekends. …
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Sep. 25, 2006 / Gordon Price

Mutual Admirerers

In my case, the Vancouver-Portland love-affair is literal. I married an Oregonian. But lots of Portlanders and Vancouverites have a…

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