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Sep. 18, 2014 / Gordon Price

Zombie Towns: The impact of international wealth on the supercities

Gladys We links to this piece in The Guardian by Oliver Wainwright: The truth about property developers: how they are…

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Sep. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

"Will Portland Always Be a Retirement Community for the Young?"

From the New York Times Magazine: Excerpts: Portland has taken hold of the cultural imagination as, to borrow the…

Sep. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Lessons from Ferguson: Class, race and inner-ring suburbs

Demographer Pete Saunders in The Guardian thinks events in the Missouri city mean The death of America’s suburban dream. America’s…

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Sep. 09, 2014 / Gordon Price

George Poulos: "Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver" – 5

The fifth and final section of George Poulos’s essay: Moving Towards the Comprehensive Costs of Transportation in Vancouver [Part 1 here] [Part…

Aug. 19, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Tipping Point on Suburban Poverty in U.S.

Scot links to Bloomberg: Ferguson Unrest Shows Poverty Grows Fastest in Suburbs According to a Brookings Institution report July 31 that…

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…

Aug. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Word of the Day: “Artwashing” – from Amsterdam’s culture war

From “Amsterdam’s Weird Culture War” in CityLab: Conservatives insist that Amsterdam is paying too high a price for its anything-goes…

Aug. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Barcelona 25 – Sagrada Familia in 2026

Assuming things go according to the latest version: …

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Aug. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

Barcelona 24 – The Diagonal (4): La Mina Before

Within steps of the parks, shopping malls, high-end highrises and corporate towers of Diagonal Mar is the barrio of La…

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…

May. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Inequality in the City: New York’s Housing Strategy

As senior governments become increasingly unlikely, unable or oblivious to issues of inequality, local governments are taking up the challenge. …

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Apr. 29, 2013 / Gordon Price

Leslie Kern: Bodies Out of Place – May 7

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