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Price Tags 89 – West LA, Millennium Park

Price Tags is my electronic magazine, mainly devoted to things urban.  Though I have a special…
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Rising above the mundane

While the ‘Vancouver Style’ (the so-called point-and-podium) has much to recommend it, particularly the way it…
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The Three-storey Story

Ah, the three-storey walk-up … The nadir of architectural design in the 20th century, built…
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Highway Removal

The West is beginning to catch on: Seoul has created the most significant new public…
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Hello again

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

It’s been a blissful fall.  Now the rains have come, the days are all too…
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Dream Cottages

Bob Ransford, public-affairs consultant and Homes columnist in the Sun, did a nice piece on laneway…
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A Breath-taking Proposal

At the provincial Liberal Party convention in Penticton this weekend, there’ll be a support motion…
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A fork in the lane

Last night, Brent Toderian, the City’s new Director of Planning, explained at an SFU City…
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Pricing Gateway

If the old line about ‘publish or perish’ is true for academia, I’m deeply appreciative…
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Choices

Washington, D.C. needs more Choices – and we’re not talking politics, we’re talking groceries. According…
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Salon's Guide to Literary Vancouver

My goodness: The first thing to know about Vancouver, British Columbia, is that it resembles…
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The Daily Alarm

That big ‘whoompf’ you heard this morning was the arrival of the 700-page report on…
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Dialogue

It’s so gratifying to see the responses coming in from readers, particularly the recent posts…

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