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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Extraordinary Statistics: Comparative Densities

From “Highrise Nation” by Katrerina Cizek, in the Globe and Mail: When Canadians think “highrise nation,” we tend to look…
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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bob Rennie’s “19 Influencers on High Housing Costs”

Novae Res Urbis covered the talk Bob Rennie gave to the Urban Development Institute in which he supported a ‘speculation…
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May. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ed Glaeser (“Triumph of the City”) on Vancouver … and Sullivanism

From Ryan McLaughlin: “Here’s an interesting interview with Harvard Urban Economist Edward Glaeser.  He talks about Vancouver a bit, among…
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May. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Crunch: Growth, productivity, high housing costs … and transit

Janis Magnuson asks: What do you think a similar analysis would find in Canada/Vancouver? By Richard Florida, from CityLab. . The…
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May. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: Jericho and TOD

From Ken Ohrn: . Kerry Gold writes in the Globe and Mail about the nascent and massive Jericho development. Her…
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Apr. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Growth and the Suburban Chassis in the Silicon Valley

A revealing piece by Granola Shotgun: . Growth and the Suburban Chassis . I tend to explore what happens to suburbs…
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Apr. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Mutual support for the Missing Middle?

Two items thast came in that same time, both dealing with the dominant planning and social issue of our city:…
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Apr. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ray Spaxman: How high could we go?

Ray Spaxman:  . Last week, when I was travelling back from a meeting at UBC, I drove back along Spanish…
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Apr. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

Simple Math: Elizabeth Murphy Responds

Elizabeth Murphy, quoted in a Daily Durning post on population growth in Metro, responded in the comments to the post.…
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Mar. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver, Vienna, Houston and Toronto: A Comparison

Frank Ducote must have noticed that several cities were mentioned in posts yesterday – notably Vancouver and Vienna, two of…
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Mar. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Transit and Development – The Implications

Scot links to this ‘advertorial’ from Colliers: an interview with Andrew Grant, President of the PCI Group, the developer of…
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Feb. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

“Analysis”: The Next Ten Years

The latest from “Analysis:” . The Next 10 Years . Over the next 10 years Metro Vancouver’s population is expected to…
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Feb. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Seattle’s (mostly successful) urban villages

From CityLab: Seattle’s Fight Against Sprawl, 20 Years On . In 1992, then-Mayor Norm Rice announced a strategy to reduce…
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Feb. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouverism in Excess: The Case of Melbourne

Some cities looked at the densification of Vancouver’s central core with admiration, and then went too far.  Melbourne was one…

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