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Nov. 23, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Unintended Irony

Here’s a video from VanCity Buzz that invites people to the new New Year’s Eve Vancouver celebrations in dear old…
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Oct. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Immigration, Capital and the Cost of Housing

Another important item from Business in Vancouver: The first half of 2015 has seen a net increase of less than 6,000…
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Sep. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Youthification: Is Vancouver a city "forever young"

Markus Moos’s latest paper suggest Vancouver might be a ‘forever young’ type of city: . … Today, inner cities contain…
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Jun. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: “Can daily biking keep us young?”

Um, yup. The article compiles a lot of studies – from urbanful, originally published by Momentum Mag on February 23,…
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Jun. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

Map: Population shifts in Europe

From CityLab: An Incredibly Detailed Map of Europe’s Population Shifts . Since the turn of the millennium, Europe has been…
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Jun. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Seniors, Sprawl and Solutions

Scot found this in Vox: Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system totally fails them . Sprawl forces…
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Jun. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Are young people leaving Vancouver?

It’s almost conventional wisdom: young people are leaving (or not coming to) Vancouver because they can’t afford to live here;…
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Jul. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

No Visible Majority

Though this blog is largely devoted to our changing built environment, the most remarkable change in Vancouver has actually been…
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Sep. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

Colour Code

Eric Fischer maps the top 40 US cities by race, using 2000 census data. Each color-coded dot represents 25 people:…

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