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Nov. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

What densification looks like in the Ballard urban village – 2

Next to South Lake Union and possibly Capitol/First Hill, there’s no more happening neighbourhood than Ballard – and people take…
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Nov. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

What densification looks like in the Ballard urban village

Another quote from the Seattle Weekly feature: … the 1994 Comprehensive Plan … insulated single-family neighborhoods, which cover most of the…
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Oct. 07, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Can a city stop growth?

I wonder if Vancouverites would like an initiative like this?  From CityLab: .  Then this from the Wonkblog at the…
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Sep. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Hard to tell parody from reality

Such is the state of real estate nuttiness, and public gullibility (see the petition, below), that these two indistinguishable media…
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Sep. 04, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Low-rise apartment housing stock: Some not-good news

Just out from Business in Vancouver: Sales of mostly older apartment buildings dominated high-value commercial real estate sales during the…
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Aug. 31, 2015 / Gordon Price

Gold Rushes and Earthquakes in the West End

For several decades, the West End has remained remarkably stable for the 30,000 mostly lower-middle-income tenants, many who have lived…
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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Damage Being Done: Density in a Post-Referendum Region

  It’s just a matter of time before those fighting the densification of their communities figure something out: When high-density…
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Aug. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Gentle Density in Portland

Another missive from Scot’s trip to Portland: . Colourful and well-scaled residential infill along Division Street in Portland: . It’s…
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Aug. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Candidates for Post-Mortems: Controversial projects that actually got built

In the column excerpted below that Michael Geller wrote for The Sun, he suggests there could be “post-mortems on controversial projects that…
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Aug. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

The height of density in the West End – 2

Further to this post on an offering of a site in the West End that could accommodate 24 FSR (floor-space…
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Aug. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

The height of density in the West End

Ray Spaxman received this from a contact: . There is a real estate listing today for 1070 Barclay Street: (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. 28, 2015 / Gordon Price

Searching for blame: The Housing Crisis in San Francisco and Post-referendum Vancouver

From Neal Lamontagne: “Many people citing Gabe Metcalf on San Franscisco’s progressive politics + housing costs. I suggest also reading…
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Jun. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paradise Cost: Density and the Eden Complex

PT: Paul Luke covered the issue of our times in a weekend feature in The Province: “The great density debate:…

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