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Mar. 08, 2012 / Gordon Price

Density and Affordability: contradiction and complexity

Michael Lewyn in Planetizen:  Traditionally, low-density zoning has been based on a desire to exclude so-called “undesirables” and thus keep…
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Mar. 04, 2012 / Gordon Price

The impact of trees in a city of hard edges

. First, go here: a view of Delancy Street South in New York City, next to the Williamsburg Bridge.  (If…
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Mar. 04, 2012 / Gordon Price

Just how badly do you want what you want?

How badly?  That’s the questiion asked at the end of a first-class piece on the population capacity of a place…
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Feb. 15, 2012 / Gordon Price

Fun with the Census: Where’s the densest place in North America?

These days it’s possible for media to take vast amounts of information – the census – and to create reader-friendly…
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Aug. 29, 2006 / Gordon Price

Density and Social Disorder

In a comment to “Car-less in Vancouver,” Seattle reader Patrick McGrath asks: Are societal ills like those mentioned in the…

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