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Jan. 30, 2007 / Gordon Price

The City That Never Walks

New York? Robert Sullivan explains.…
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Jan. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Mutual Admirers

Brian Libby writes the definitive blog for those admirers of things architectural and urban in Portland. I sent him the…
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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. 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. 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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Jan. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

Grand Opening: Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park

I predicted a few months ago that the new sculpture park on the Seattle waterfront may be the next best…
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Jan. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Resurrection in Saudi Arabia

Go out and get a copy of the Saturday, January 13th Globe and Mail.  There’s a story in it that…
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Jan. 06, 2007 / Gordon Price

City versus Suburbs

The City versus Surburbs debate has been going as long as there’s been both – and suburbs emerged along with the first…
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Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

3-D Vancouver

What would Downtown Vancouver look like if it were made out of jello? At last, you can see for yourself,…
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Dec. 16, 2006 / Gordon Price

Revenge of the Small

Author Karrie Jacobs – the keynote speaker at mid-October’s Affordable Housing by Design conference – has some nice things to…
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Dec. 14, 2006 / Gordon Price

toronto the bad

Toronto Star urban-design critic Christopher Hume weighs in on one of his favourite topics: how bad TO’s planning process is…
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Dec. 06, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Whole Hole

This is the biggest construction hole in the Lower Mainland:   It’s at the corner of Ioco Road, between Murray and…
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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. 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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