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Oct. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

NYT Op-Doc: A Short History of the Highrise

The highrise in Mud, Concrete and Glass in this New York Times Op-Doc in conjunction with Canada’s National Film Board:…
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Oct. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

How to Measure a Healthy City

Here’s an actual formula, as developed by Don Luymes, the Manager of Community Planning for the City of Surrey: .…
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Oct. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Living Micro: Small suites from New York to Vancouver

A PBS Newshour feature on living in small spaces: . . As more people across the country are living alone,…
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Sep. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

Fantasy TOD: How Developers Market Transit

TOD is Transit-Oriented Development – a term used more in the States than here. Technically: “… a mixed-use residential and commercial…
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Sep. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

Canada: A Suburban Nation … and its changing suburbs

Lots of coverage on the research of David Gordon, director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Queen’s University.…
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Aug. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

What is the typical Canadian dwelling?

According to Doug Saunders at The Globe, it’s this: The dwelling that’s most Canadian, in its sheer numbers and popularity,…
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Aug. 29, 2013 / Gordon Price

Fodder for the Density Debate: "A Country of Cities" and "End of the Suburbs"

Peter Schottenfels praises a new book by Vishaan Chakrabarti called A Country of Cities: . The book illustrates how better-planned, denser…
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Aug. 13, 2013 / Gordon Price

Is there a place for the urban village?

Michael Kluckner makes the case for this: . . Kerrisdale is a good example of an urban village: an east-west street…
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Jul. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: Development, Density, Dollars – Aug 1

SFU / Public Square Presents CITY CONVERSATIONS Development, Density, Dollars: What do residents get? . A regularly-heard Vancouver refrain is that…
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Jul. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Population Drop on the West Coast

It seems unimaginable that the population of Vancouver could ever have dropped – not a drop in the rate of…
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Jul. 22, 2013 / Gordon Price

Views on Views

From Rob Howatson: The Courier recently announced its 10 finalists for the Vancouver Minute Video Contest. Most of the filmmakers went…
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Jul. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Hot Issues: Densification in Vancouver

 I should post my comments in this piece from The Vancouver Sun in case any PT readers want to weigh in. …
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Jul. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

Density and Suicide

Which has a higher rate of suicide: the impersonal, crowded city or the bucolic, capacious countryside.  (How’s that for a set-up?)…
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Jun. 25, 2013 / Gordon Price

Towers in Grandview: Change and character in the community

I couldn’t really write anything better than Charles Campbell already has in The Tyee: At Ground Zero for Vancouver’s Towering…

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