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May. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Flypaper: Is this a joke?

Hard to tell: . It’s from Streetsblog US here.…
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May. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

A Future for Suburbia

From the Smithsonian Magazine:   Alan Berger, a professor of landscape architecture and urban design at MIT, … as co-director of…
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May. 17, 2016 / Gordon Price

Worth Bringing Forward: The world seen from Sand Hill Road

A comment from Geof on Autonomous Vehicles and City Building: . Silicon Valley is just about the worst place to invent…
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May. 13, 2016 / Gordon Price

Autonomous Vehicles and City Building

Sandy James: This piece has just come out from Ryerson on the issue of autonomous vehicles. I took one look…
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Mar. 25, 2016 / tanyapazzy

First Baptist Church dev app proposes 120 #parking spots >minimum. In #downtown #Vancouver.

969 Burrard St & 1019-1045 Nelson St This is my second article on Good Friday about a development application that…
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Mar. 24, 2016 / tanyapazzy

.@tanyapazzy Highlights of Our Evening with JSK @JSadikKhan @pricetags #vanpoli #bikeyvr

On Tuesday I cracked myself up in prep for an evening with Janette Sadik-Khan (JSK), former NYCDOT Transportation Commissioner and author…
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Jan. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

Questions on the Massey Bridge for the Leaders in the Shadows

“Leaders in the Shadows: The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers” is the title of a recent book by David Siegel,…
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Feb. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

“Could driverless cars own themselves?”

A thought experiment that intrigued Clive Rock – from the BBC: . Mike Hearn … a Zurich-based software developer is both…
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Feb. 02, 2015 / Gordon Price

Origins of Motordom:

I’ve mentioned every so often that Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia, was my source for the concept…
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Jan. 27, 2015 / Gordon Price

Another Unexpected Consequence of Driverless Cars

Said Tara Grescoe: “The more I read about self-driving cars, the more I realize that nobody knows what they’ll mean…
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Jan. 23, 2015 / Gordon Price

“Taking Traffic Control Lessons — From Ants”

One of our “Next Generation Transportation” participants came across this in Wired.  Of course, had to share. . “They never…
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Aug. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

Automation: "So it goes with autos, so it goes for everything"

So says CGP Grey about the impact of automation on employment in “Humans Need Not Apply – a discussion not…
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May. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

“Will a World of Driverless Cars Be Heaven or Hell?”

Robin Chase asks the question in this Atlantic Cities piece, further to the post below.  In that piece on the…
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May. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

What happens when a Google car sees a cyclist?

This is what happens: . . To see video, click here for “The First Look at How Google’s Self-Driving Car…

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