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Dec. 18, 2006 / Gordon Price

Insights on Sightline

Fine piece on Alan Durning and the Sightline Institute in the current Seattle Times magazine. Here’s the whole article, and…

Dec. 17, 2006 / Gordon Price

Robson World Class? Not quite.

They’ll charge you the highest rents in Canada for retail space on Robson between Burrard and Bute. Expect to put…

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Dec. 17, 2006 / Gordon Price

Go To: Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Occasionally, I’ll recommend a blog or site to check out. The first: Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward’s blog. Alex, whose work is…

Nov. 21, 2006 / Gordon Price

Hello again

I’m back. Let’s start with something hilarious from the Aussies. Chasers – Trojan Horse…

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…

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…

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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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. 22, 2006 / Gordon Price

The Daily Alarm

It used to be that new information on climate change came in every month or so. Now it’s daily, and…

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Sep. 10, 2006 / Gordon Price

Wonderful World, c. 1954

Jason Vanderhill saw this reprint from a children’s book of 1954 – The Wondeful World – on The Balloonists’ blog. “Looks rather…

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Sep. 07, 2006 / Gordon Price

Viewpoint: My window, Vancouver

The view out the front window this evening, as the long summer draws in. …

Jul. 27, 2006 / Gordon Price

Vacation Time

Off to Vermont for a week to do a little cycling, then up to Montreal for the end of the…

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Jul. 25, 2006 / Gordon Price

Highrise versus Lowrise

Seattle-ite Patrick McGrath asked the following question in a comment to the “Density Game” below: Are high rises the best…

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Jul. 24, 2006 / Gordon Price

Not your father's suburbs

SkyTrain opened in 1985. Twenty-one years later, the suburbs along the line have come of age. Looking northwest from atop…

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