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Sep. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Temporary Chairs

Simple temporary seating adding colour to an otherwise bland concrete plaza: .…
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Sep. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: A different kind of bikelane hazard

Scot tweets: “Go Pro video of Vancouver cyclist held up at gunpoint in Buenos Aires bikelane” . Mike Graziano and…
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Foodtrucking

Good use of food trucks in commercial/industrial area in Vancouver’s Railtown hood that lacks restaurants:…
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Sep. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Village

Says Scot: Great Mixed Use at Wesbrook Village at UBC. Great scale and proportion, narrow street, small gathering plaza in…
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Sep. 08, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Masking trees

Scot observes: Great example of how street trees mask an unsightly blank building elevation and reduce building mass. .…
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Sep. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Road Diet

Scot observes: Forced road diet on Main Street at 2nd due to construction.  From six lanes to two.  No problem and…
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Sep. 04, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Coffee in the Castro

Scot, further to the post below on the Castro, picked this up in Streetsblog SF: Personal Garages Become Cafes in…
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Sep. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Vines

Scot notes: Great use of vines on building in Olympic Village. Developers should use more of this to break up…
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Aug. 29, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Trespass

Scot asks: The CPR has removed the community gardens due to trespassing, however they don’t seem to mind the auto…
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Aug. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Tipping Point on Suburban Poverty in U.S.

Scot links to Bloomberg: Ferguson Unrest Shows Poverty Grows Fastest in Suburbs According to a Brookings Institution report July 31 that…
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Aug. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Dying before birth – 2

Further to this post – The Fate Of America’s Dying Supercenters – Scot notes how even Wal-Mart is being impacted.  From…
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Aug. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Cities by Writers

Scot links to a clever idea in The Guardian: critiques of cities by writers who live in them. The first by…
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Aug. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Urban Reef

Walking down Robson yesterday, I realized I hadn’t posted anything on Urban Reef – this year’s Viva Vancouver installation.  Fortunately…
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Aug. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Dying before birth

Scot sent an item of particular relevance for this region: . The Fate Of America’s Dying Supercenters ” Just about every…

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