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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

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. 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. 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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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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Sep. 14, 2006 / Gordon Price

Revelation: Seoul's Cheonggyecheon

I had read about this before, but didn’t really appreciate it until I saw this picture: According to Toronto’s Spacing…
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Sep. 10, 2006 / Gordon Price

MUST READ – Canadian Architect

This month’s issue of Canadian Architect is largely devoted to Vancouver. I’ll definitely have more to say on some of…
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Sep. 10, 2006 / Gordon Price

Canada: A country without a future?

When it comes to sustainable city-building, the urban-issues columnist for the Toronto Star, Christopher Hume, thinks so – here.…
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Sep. 09, 2006 / Gordon Price

Architectural Comfort Food

There’s a provcative critique of Vancouver’s downtown architecture by Robert A.M. Stern in the Sun today. (Here for subscribers.) “I…
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Sep. 06, 2006 / Gordon Price

"Extreme Makeover" – Governing Magazine's take on Vancouver

Alan Ehrenhalt, the Executive Editor of Governing Magazine made a special visit to Vancouver this spring to witness the city’s condo boom firsthand. …
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Sep. 05, 2006 / Gordon Price

Vancouverism – An Australian Perspective

Nice piece here on Vancouver by Dr. Gabrielle Kuipe, an urban planner in Sydney who was here for the World…
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Aug. 29, 2006 / Gordon Price

Density and Social Disorder

In a comment to “Car-less in Vancouver,” Seattle reader Patrick McGrath asks: Are societal ills like those mentioned in the…

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