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Aug. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

Dropping Densities: New Shift in Portland?

Given that we look to Portland for trends, here’s something to watch, as reported in the Portland Tribune: City ponders about-face…
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Jun. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Growing Pains of Vancouver

Tristan Laurillard in conversation with architects, city planners and politicians: Jon Lightburn Niels von Meyenfeldt Peter Kreuk Jan Timmer Gordon…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Seattle 6 – Boom and Echo

Danny Westneat, the Seattle Times columnist, pens a piece on the current boom that, if we change the name of the…
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Mar. 31, 2014 / Gordon Price

“How did Vancouver get so green?”

That’s an irresistible question – answered by Ben Adler in Grist: . While Seattle and Portland look and feel a lot…
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Mar. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Successful Midrise – 1: Affluent Suburb Division

Further to the post below that illustrates the amount of mid-rise development going through the Urban Design Panel in Vancouver,…
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Mar. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Brent Toderian: “Freeways don’t solve city traffic woes”

Brent is in Sydney, Australia – and here’s the message. From the Financial Review: No city ever solved traffic problems…
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Mar. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

Housing: NIMBYnomics and the Missing Middle

An intriguing argument in Keep Austin Wonky: . Often, developers are described as ‘greedy’ (which is a way of saying they…
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Mar. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

The View from ’56: Thoughts on the Short-Term Future of Transportation Planning

I wrote the original of this essay back in the 1990s, and then submitted an update to Plan Canada, the magazine…
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Feb. 04, 2014 / Gordon Price

Flag-waving in West Vancouver

In light of the warning by Gordon Gibson in the post below, Tom Durning draws attention to just the very…
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Dec. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Just possibly the most profitable new building in Vancouver

It’s likely to be this.  It’s also one of the coolest: it doesn’t even need to be heated. . From…
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Nov. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

Metro Lunch: Great City-Making – Nov 28, Dec 10

Great City-Making Demands Innovation NEW WESTMINSTER – Nov 28, 2013 NORTH VANCOUVER – Dec 10, 2013 Metro Vancouver is pleased…
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Oct. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Densinistas vs. NIMBYs in Seattle

I’m linking to this article in Crosscut because I love the title – Densinistas! – and because it gives a pretty…
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Oct. 24, 2013 / Gordon Price

On Gentrification: A young PT reader comments

Just in case you missed this thoughtful comment from Jimbo – a young PT reader – below the Kluckner video,…
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Oct. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

The Post-Motordom City: Auto use drops as population rises

And it’s not just happening in Vancouver. From Better! Cities & Towns: . Boston sees remarkable decline in automobile registrations…

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