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Feb. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

From the Archives: Skyscrapers in Vancouver – 1910

Andy Coupland is working his way through thousands of Engineering Dept slides and archival material – like this:  …
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Feb. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

What Vancouver really needs …

… is what Portland already has.  According to Patrick Condon, this: .   . Go here to explore the interactive…
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Jan. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: Consequences of the Brenhill decision – Feb 5

The next City Conversations, presented by SFU Public Square:  Condo Tower, Social Housing, Public Consultation, Court Ruling …   Enough controversy? This project seems…
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Jan. 30, 2015 / Gordon Price

Urbanization, Population and Policy: The Case of Vancouver

Pete McMartin in the Vancouver Sun: . Does Metro Vancouver have an optimum population? Is there a point where our…
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Jan. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

NRU: “Financing Density”

Karenn Krangle, in Novae Res Urbis, covered the Planning Department’s report on the City’s use of Community Amenity Contributuins (CACs)…
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Jan. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Matt Taylor: The New West Ends

The latest from Matt Taylor’s Analysis blog: In the next 30 years Metro Vancouver is projected to grow by about…
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Jan. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

Mexico Enero – 1

A new series, featuring a city or region for a month – each post with a few images and a short…
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Dec. 01, 2014 / Gordon Price

Report: “Intensifying Melbourne”

From Cole Hendrigan at Curtin University: I was not involved in this, though I wish I had been. I just…
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Nov. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

Ohrn Words: A Baby Step at Jericho

Here is a first baby step towards the redevelopment of the Jericho Lands, former military base.  Certainly, this is the…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Real Cost of Detached Housing

Penny Coupland has a question for you excellently informed people: I wonder if there’s anyone on your blog who can comment on…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

Tight City: What is This About?

It’s the latest piece of public art at the Central City Canada Line Station: . I was fascinated by the…
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Nov. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Comments worth commenting on: "The End of the Residential Highrise?"

Comments to previous posts worthy of reprint here – the foreground. Indeed, this whole thread to “The End of the…
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Nov. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vision: The End of the Residential Highrise?

The Tyee quotes Vision candidate Andrea Reimer at an all-candidates debate at Britannia: “We have said ‘absolutely no’ to towers…
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Nov. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Urban Design Forum: Doug Saunders

Is this the best lecture of the year on urbanism and global issues?  Michael Alexander thinks so, and you may…

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