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Feb. 03, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 22 – Puerto Madero's success

  A comment worth bringing forward by Alex Botta: (In Puerto Madero) the adapted old brick warehouses and new modern buildings…
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Jan. 27, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 21 – Cycling City

My resolution when I return to Buenos Aires: I’ll sign up for Ecobici (it’s free!) before I leave. Buenos Aires…
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Jan. 27, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 20 – Architecture, Function and Legend

Can you guess from the architecture what the purpose of the building is? (a) Hotel (b) Pre-war co-op, New York…
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Jan. 27, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 19 – Streetcar City

It seemed like, no matter the neighbourhood, there were signs of an era past: Likely, one could guess, there was…
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Jan. 27, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 16 – Puerto Madero

At the top of the must-check-out list for any Vancouver urbanist is the waterfront community of Puerto Madero – a development…
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Jan. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 15 – Density for the Dead

One of the must-see attractions of Buenos Aires is La Recoleta Cemetery – one of the most extraordinary in the…
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Jan. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 14 – Discovered Spaces and Real Estate

Though the viaduct described below ends after it crosses the vastness of Av Libertador (one of those multi-lane arterials which…
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Jan. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 13 – Discovered Spaces

On an early morning run through the Palermo Woods, I came across a space that became one of my favourites…
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Jan. 25, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 12 – Small Differences

Why we travel: to see those small differences in the way things are done. Like being able to buy empanada…
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Jan. 25, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 11- Wealth and its Loss

Bring it all together from a century ago – the migration, the wealth, the European influences and architectural aspirations (everyone…
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Jan. 25, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 10 – Men on Horses

Buenos Aires was one rich town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries* as the combination of migration, agricultural…
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Jan. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 9 de Julio

The ultimate in road widening has to be Avenida 9 de Julio (Argentina’s Independence Day) – often stated to be…
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Jan. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 8 – Avenida

Buenos Aires for most of its history has had to live with a grid of very narrow rights-of-way – at…
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Jan. 24, 2017 / Gordon Price

Buenos Aires 7 – Lungs

Buenos Aires is one dense city; tight streets and building walls constrain almost every space, a consequence of Spanish surveying…

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