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Feb. 06, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning~Digitized Surveillance in Cities in China

  The New York Times  has written about the increasing invasion of personal information and biometric data in China where cities store…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Northeast False Creek Plan, Coalition of Neighbourhoods, and Three Too Tall Towers

  The Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods has written the following statement on their website regarding the Northeast False Creek Plan. Several of…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Health & Planning Innovators~ Dr. John Blatherwick & Dr. Perry Kendall

    In the 1980’s health and planning were never discussed in the same sentence, seemingly separate silos with no…
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Jan. 29, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Richard Wozny, Real Estate Prices and "Mortgage Slaves"

In planning and real estate Richard Wozny is a local legend for his ability to capture the upside of real…
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Jan. 19, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Chinese Housing Market Not So Hot~Metro Vancouver Implications?

It had been forecast for some time with the tightening of lending and monetary restrictions. But as the Wall Street Journal reports…
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Jan. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Culture, Food Security and Development in Chinatown~

There’s an event at  Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre location with the principal author of the Hua Foundation’s Vancouver Chinatown Food…
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Jan. 10, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Nix the Farmland,Build a Mansion in Richmond~Make Millions for Shell Company

If anyone ever doubted that farmland was being usurped and transferred into private gated estate cash cows, this story in the…
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Jan. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Gordie Award 2017~Moments of Courage~YIMBY Marpole

The last Gordie Award of 2017 goes to the people and youth of Vancouver that stood up to ensure that…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Agricultural Land Reserve, Vicki Huntington, and the Future of the Region

Vicki Huntington needs no introduction to the people living in Delta. Ms. Huntington was the former MLA for Delta South…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Gordie Awards 2017~Most Puzzling Planning Work and Process~Chinatown and Translation

The Gordie Award for the 2017 most puzzling planning work and process goes to the work occurring around Chinatown and…
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Jan. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Gordies 2017-Potentially Most Polarizing Planning Work~Amazon HQ2

A unanimous pick by the Price Tags editors for the most Potentially Polarizing Planning Work~The Amazon solicitation from cities right…
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Dec. 26, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Hollowing Out of Vancouver's Population~Warren Gill Lecture~David Hulchanski

 David Hulchanski teaches housing and community development at the University of Toronto and was a professor at the University of…
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Dec. 25, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Season's Greetings From Price Tags Vancouver

    This image is courtesy of Price Tags contributor, author and artist Michael Kluckner. The Co-Editors of Price Tags’…
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Dec. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

T'was the Night Before Christmas in Vancouver's West End…

From CBC’s Stephen Quinn in the Globe and Mail~ a Vancouverized twist of an old Classic: T’was the night before Christmas, and…

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