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Feb. 07, 2011 / Gordon Price

Fun facts for a not-funny issue

Thanks to Michael Geller for drawing attention to a housing report fresh out of City Hall, authored by Dale McClanaghan. Says…
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Feb. 07, 2011 / Gordon Price

Debt and Red Tape

… two things you’d like to avoid, particularly if you’re financing and upgrading a heritage building or house.   The Vancouver Heritage…
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Feb. 02, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Density Debate: Is density necessary for transit?

A couple of Aussies don’t think so: Dr John Stone, of the University of Melbourne, and Dr Paul Mees, of…
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Jan. 27, 2011 / Gordon Price

Seattle Old and New

The always opinionated (in a good way) Knute Berger, columnist for Crosscut, has been sifting throught the civic storage unit…
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Jan. 20, 2011 / Gordon Price

Quote: Witold Rybczynski on ‘The Great Disruption’

Rybczynski, in his latest book  – Makeshift Metropolis – explains what happened mid-20th century that led to the proposals and…
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Jan. 18, 2011 / Gordon Price

Detroit in Ruins, again

Perhaps the only thing more cliched than a picture of Detroit ruins is another story about Detroit in ruins.  It’s…
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Jan. 12, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Joy of Stats

World events getting you down?  In despair over the future of humanity and the globe?  Here’s some perspective: For a…
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Jan. 12, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Past from Above

Now this is fascinating: This is the Las Vegas Strip seen from ab0ve – the same view a half century apart –…
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May. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Time Frame

I was at the Concord Presentation Centre a few weeks ago and noticed some remarkable photos – three aerial shots…
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Feb. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

Surrey Rises

Let’s see if this gets a rise: “Surrey should rightfully bypass Vancouver. It can learn from Vancouver and do things…
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Jan. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

The 100,000 Club

By 1910, Vancouver then Will have 100,000 men Move Her!  Move Her! Who?  Vancouver! In the background of this picture…
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Nov. 16, 2009 / Gordon Price

Designer District

Globe columnist Adele Weder critiques a revved-up Gastown as the new A+D centre of Vancouver: … just in the last year,…
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Oct. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

The great B.C. real estate bust

A first-class piece of writing on real estate by Jim Sutherland in the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business magazine. …
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Jul. 28, 2009 / Gordon Price

Blame it on Canada

David Godin sends in an L.A. Times report on the real-estate damage in San Diego: From 2001 through 2008, more…

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