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Jun. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

Reimagining Surrey City Centre – Jun 15

SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and SFU Public Square are hosting “Beyond COVID: Reimagining Our City Centres!”  Sign…
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Jun. 10, 2021 / Gordon Price

Young Planners Session: Skate – Jun 10

This is dated June 9th for an event on June 10th – not exactly great planning.  But a good idea:…
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Jun. 08, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Secret Easements, Rights-of-Way, What3Words & the Westside Shuffle

Last week I posted on a series of easements and rights-of-way that run along the geologic ridge of the city…
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Jun. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Apartments on Side Streets – A Long-time Tradition

Last week, Sun writer Dan Fumano wrote a column that asked: The idea that apartment buildings should be built along…
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Jun. 02, 2021 / Gordon Price

An Uncrossable Line in Vancouver

As with most things involving housing in Vancouver, there were probably several reasons why this motion by councillor Christine Boyle…
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May. 31, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Public Washrooms on South Granville Street or the New Broadway Rapid Transit Connection? Nope.

Once again I ventured onto South Granville Street and once again I was greatly disappointed when I need to find…
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May. 26, 2021 / Gordon Price

Little Batteries, Little Boxes – Classifying the Micromobility Revolution

We love our little boxes.  Everything classified and in its place: cars/drivers bikes/cyclists rollerblades/skaters scooters … um, scootists? Then we…
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May. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

Recommended Read: E-Scooters in New York

A must-read article (from, not surprisingly, The New Yorker) recommended by Peter Ladner, and seconded by me.  It’s about more…
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May. 13, 2021 / Gordon Price

More Ammunition in the Gentrification War

There’s a premise out there (articulated pretty much at every rezoning hearing by Councillor Jean Swanson to justify a no…
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May. 11, 2021 / Gordon Price

Michael von Hausen’s latest: “New Pathways to Approvals”

From Michael von Hausen – the latest book from one of the pre-eminent urban designers in Canada, both a big-vision…
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May. 10, 2021 / Gordon Price

More evidence that we’re no longer in Motordom

The Urban Development Institute did a webinar on Translink’s 2050 planning process – including some polls along the way.  Here’s…
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May. 07, 2021 / Gordon Price

Downtown Waterfront Visionaries – Lance Berelowitz

  This is a version of a presentation that planner, urban designer and writer Lance Berelowitz made during SFU’s Lunch…
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May. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

Downtown Waterfront Visionaries – Mary Pynenburg

From the Downtown Waterfront Working Group: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver campus, recently hosted two significant and destined-to-be-influential dialogues on the…
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May. 05, 2021 / Gordon Price

How NOAH might save Vancouver from the Amazon Flood

  The Post, currently under construction on Georgia, will open in 2023 as the largest office building downtown.  Inside will…

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