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Apr. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

An Essay on L.A.

A lot of readers on the Internet like this:   I once put Los Angeles with the internet and the…
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Apr. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Dire London

Architecture critic of The Guardian, Rowan Moore, isn’t pleased in the last months of Boris Johnson’s London. . It’s not…
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Feb. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Durning: Lesson from The Big Short

Durning: “I think your younger readers would appreciate this one.” . Watching house prices and the overheating housing market in…
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Feb. 19, 2016 / artitectus

Item from Ian: Greenest City, Black Water?

James can tell you I’ve been an advocate for a pool in False Creek for some time, and every time I have…
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Feb. 15, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: House as asset, not home – consequences

YFrom The Guardian:   Figures show that, in 2015, the number of households evicted by county court-appointed bailiffs hit 42,728…
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Feb. 10, 2016 / Gordon Price

ULI: Richard Rogers on density and "the way forward"

The Urban Land Institute met in Paris for their European conference, with architect Richard Rogers as a featured speaker.  The…
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Nov. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Affordable housing and the cost of doing business

Another ‘could be about Vancouver’ – from The Guardian:     It’s puzzling that corporate Britain, which loves nothing better…
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Nov. 04, 2015 / Gordon Price

Conflict issues on London's bike lanes

As Sandy James discovered on a recent trip: .…
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Nov. 04, 2015 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: London stories that could be about Vancouver

One more from the series ‘stories about London which could also be about Vancouver:’ … The speaker from Architects for Social…
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Nov. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Hallowe’en Dada

From the BBC via Sandy James: . Now this is my idea of grand pedestrian intervention that took place in…
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Oct. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Michael Mortensen's Lessons from London

Further to the Housing Crisis in London, a comment worth bringing forward from Michael Mortensen, who is based there. .…
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Oct. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Housing Crisis in London

An interesting addendum to the cost of housing elsewhere: According to an insight study performed by the think tank New…
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Sep. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Lessons from London

Our London correspondent, Michael Mortensen, links in: . Some “Lessons from London” for my Canadian planning and development colleagues interested…
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Jul. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Flying into London

London airports: over 3,000 flights every day using six runways; no delays for 99.8 percent of them.  Here’s what that…

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