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Sep. 17, 2018 / Gordon Price

Video: Hong Kong Phooey

Not quite a time-lapse video, this short appreciation of Hong Kong includes a few visual techniques to celebrate a city…
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Jun. 09, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Day 5 – Hong Kong

How Vancouver is this? Price Tags editor-in-chief Gordon Price, on his last day in Hong Kong (en route to Tokyo…
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Jun. 08, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Day 4 – Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s public transit system is like the island territory’s central nervous system — essential to everything — and yet…
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Jun. 07, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Day 3 – Hong Kong

Despite the minor issue of a tropical cyclone bearing down on western Guangdong province (“its threat to Hong Kong still…
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Jun. 06, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Day 2 – Hong Kong

About 20 years ago, the typical question about Hong Kong culture might have dwelled on whether there’s a lingering presence…
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Jun. 05, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Day 1 – Hong Kong

Hold on tight. Price Tags publisher and editor-in-chief Gordon Price’s Instagram journalling of his Hong Kong tour begins on Day…
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Jun. 04, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Postcards from Hong Kong and Japan

Next week, Price Tags publisher and editor-in-chief Gordon Price is on a study tour with the ‘good governance group’ of…
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Jan. 10, 2016 / artitectus

Dead space for a living city.

I was watching an older SFU video last week on The Melbourne Experience. … and one of the most interesting…
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Jun. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: The Hongcouver Interview

Scot thinks this podcast is worth your time.  Click through to the site; interview starts at 2.55 . South China…
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Jun. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Panel: Friends of Hong Kong on Housing Affordability – Jun 19

Housing affordability is the first to come to mind when we look at issues commonly shared between Metro Vancouver and…
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Jun. 01, 2015 / Gordon Price

Extraordinary Statistics: Comparative Densities

From “Highrise Nation” by Katrerina Cizek, in the Globe and Mail: When Canadians think “highrise nation,” we tend to look…
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Jan. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vacant Property: What do other places do?

Tim Pawsey wanted to make sure PT saw this – from BC Business: In the past two years, Israel, the…
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Jan. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

The (Mostly) Untold Story of the Sale of the Expo Lands

Bob Ransford added this comment to the post below, providing delicious details to the story about how the post-Expo lands on the North…
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Aug. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Hong Kong High

­ ­ Need a little vertigo in your life?  Durning links to these shots by Makhorov & Vitaliy in Hong…

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