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Apr. 24, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge, Billion dollar Boondoggle?

Imagine in fifty years what people will say about the decision-making occurring in Metro Vancouver. For some reason the Province…
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Apr. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Ontario-Changes to Rentals, New Foreign-Buyers' Tax

The Globe and Mail reports that  some aspects of Vancouver’s foreign-buyers regulation have been embraced in Greater Toronto’s “Golden Horseshoe” the…
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Apr. 20, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Have Latte, Will Talk in the "Third Place".

In 1989, Ray Oldenburg coined the phrase “third place” in his book The Great Good Place.  The “third place” was…
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Apr. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Metro Vancouver Housing Prices Down, but Not For Long

Metro News and  Jeff Hodson reports that the latest Royal LePage housing price survey shows  a decline in housing prices in…
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Apr. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File: Pay Attention to the Zebra in the Streets in Bolivia

The Atlantic Monthly describes the innovative attempts of the City of La Paz Bolivia in  changing driver behaviour in the streets,…
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Apr. 13, 2017 / Gordon Price

The New Urban Crisis: Will London Fail?

From the New York Times: An exquisitely produced essay on London’s profile and prospects – and an illustration of the…
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Apr. 13, 2017 / Gordon Price

Trump and Cities: Richard Florida

From City Nation Place via Herb Auerbach: Richard Florida on Trump and Cities A new book by city expert Richard…
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Apr. 04, 2017 / Gordon Price

Were the Luddites right? – Automation and its Consequences

Had a discussion with an economist the other day, who held to the conventional wisdom, justified by history, that the…
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Mar. 30, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Paris, Road Closures, Traffic Evaporation and the Braess Paradox

  The website h2020 has a very interesting examination of “traffic evaporation”-what happens to all that traffic when you close urban…
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Mar. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Japan's Population-"A Demographic Time Bomb"

The Independent’s Business Insider article via Andy Yan describes the increasing aging population of Japan, called by economists as a  “demographic time bomb.”…
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Mar. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Aging, Design and the City and Why This Matters

By 2030, one-quarter of all Canadians will be over 65 years of age, which will have profound impacts on Canadian…
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Larry Beasley and Metro Vancouver's Potential Third Housing Sector

Both Peter Ladner in Business in Vancouver  and columnist Daphne Bramham in the Vancouver Sun  have featured comments made by Larry…
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Mar. 21, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

San Francisco-A Childless City and Richmond-A Dog Park

The New York Times  notes that San Francisco, with a population of 865,000 has “ roughly the same number of dogs as…
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Mar. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Death Knell of the Suburban Mall

The Business Insider reports that American families are no longer packing up and spending their evenings and weekends shopping at the…

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