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May. 11, 2009 / Gordon Price

Fun with Infrastructure

High up on the list of ‘most boring words in the English language,’ infrastructure has nonetheless found recent popularity.  So…
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Feb. 10, 2009 / Gordon Price

UPDATE: Granville Loops

I see there’s some interesting comments on the motivations of the City for the development of the Granville Loops.  Here’s…
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Dec. 18, 2008 / Gordon Price

New Stuff 10 – Shangri-la

It’s stunning. From Georgia and Bute in the late afternoon, when the building captures the sun and is fully lit…
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Dec. 17, 2008 / Gordon Price

New Stuff 9 – Safeway at Denman and Robson

Other than Broadway and Cambie, there is no major intersection in Vancouver undergoing more change than Denman and Robson.  Mainly because…
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Dec. 16, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Big O

I grabbed a B-Line on Saturday down to Richmond for the opening of the Big O: The Richmond Olympic Oval will…
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Dec. 05, 2008 / Gordon Price

Development lessons writ large in Ontario

My recent Business in Vancouver column: “Why did nobody notice it? If these things were so large, how come everyone…
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Nov. 28, 2008 / Gordon Price

Images of a Not-so-changing City

I’ll add my plug for Vancouver Sun photograher Lee Bacchus’s and Bernie Lyon’s new blog, Splinter in Your Eye: Images…
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Sep. 23, 2008 / Gordon Price

New Stuff 5 – Downtown East Side / Gastown

So much happening, it’s hard to keep up.  Here are a few samples. The curtain has been drawn to reveal…
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Sep. 19, 2008 / Gordon Price

A Survey of Surrey

Here’s the paper I wrote for the Surrey Economic Summit (at which Rudy Giuliani, oddly enough, got all the press):…
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Sep. 11, 2008 / Gordon Price

New Stuff 2 – King Edward Village

I really like this. A commanding tower on a key intersection at Knight and Kingsway. And like a knight, King…
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Aug. 21, 2008 / Gordon Price

Name That City

“Last year, 59 percent of new home sales were condos.” According to the New York Times, in which city is…
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May. 26, 2008 / Gordon Price

Sightline’s Insight

I sit on the board of the Sightline Institute, so I’m always pleased to see the Seattle-based organization get good…
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May. 08, 2008 / Gordon Price

New Stuff 8 – Squamish Adventure Centre

It’s the best-looking building on the Sea-to-Sky Highway: Mind you, there’s not a lot of competition. This is the Squamish…
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May. 02, 2008 / Gordon Price

Slumburbia

Like swallows in spring, the articles on endangered suburbs are being sighted with increasing frequency.  Here is the latest from…

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