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Feb. 29, 2016 / Gordon Price

How Bjarke Ingels meets the ground

Welcome to Sandy James as guest editor to Price Tags for this week. And further to her post below, where…
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Feb. 19, 2016 / artitectus

Item from Ian: Greenest City, Black Water?

James can tell you I’ve been an advocate for a pool in False Creek for some time, and every time I have…
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Jan. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Proposal: The Harbour Deck at Coal Harbour

A not-so-outlandish idea for a great public space on Harbour Green, where a floating boardwalk and dock just never really caught…
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Jan. 07, 2016 / artitectus

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

  Vancouver is a young city. While this means we don’t have our own Arc de Triomphe (though some seem…
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Sep. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Can Google change a car-centric culture in its own backyard?

Ian Robertson picked this up from Co.EXIST: . Google Wants To Make Silicon Valley As Bike-Friendly As Copenhagen . In…
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Sep. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bike Cafe: Copenhagen in Vancouver – Sep 8

The Green Wave: How Can Vancouver Create Copenhagen-Like Bicycle Infrastructure? . Although the City of Vancouver is off to a…
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Aug. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 11 – The Opening of Cirkelbroen

While we are celebrating the one millionth cycling trip across the Burrard Bridge (any moment now), Copenhageners are celebrating the…
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Aug. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 10 – Ørestad North and ‘Downtown’

Continuing our exploration of Ørestad – the most ambitious urban development in Copenhagen since the war.  (The first part is…
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Aug. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

What Simon loves about Copenhagen

We were meant to meet Simon Sondergaard.  When we were lost and looking confused, he (typical Copenhagener) came over to…
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Aug. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 9 – Ørestad Fail

In a city that by most measures of urban quality is one of the most successful in the world, how…
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Aug. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

What I love (or don’t) about Copenhagen

(Or,  Hvad jeg elsker eller ikke om København) I’ve given a pretty light listing of things I noticed about Copenhagen…
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Jul. 31, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 8 – Ting jeg kan lide ved København

Or, things I like about Copenhagen: . Good design, with restraint: Practically the first thing you see when looking out the…
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Jul. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 7 – Finding the Potatoes

In the blocks between Øster Søgade and Øster Farimagsgade, next to Sortedams Sø (Black Dam Lake) in the Østerbro district, lies one of the…
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Jul. 29, 2015 / Gordon Price

Copenhagen 6 – Searching for Potatoes

While wandering through Copenhagen, I remembered an observation from UBC urban design professor Patrick Condon: There is a neighbourhood in…

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