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Dec. 28, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 4 -Vancouverism in Los Angeles

This I did not expect.  Driving down La Cienega Boulevard at night, a block of lights in the distance rose…
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Dec. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 3: Discovering the Missing Middle

If there was a time when the California Dream seemed to match up with reality for most of its people,…
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Dec. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 2: Wilshire Stories

To understand Los Angeles, it helps to understand Wilshire Boulevard.   The boulevard is a 25-km east-west arterial that transects…
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Nov. 30, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations – 1: A Different Kind of Sprawl

We all know Los Angeles even if we’ve never been there.  Though movies, TV and theme parks, from LaLa Land …
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Nov. 01, 2021 / Gordon Price

Instagramming From Palm Springs (and Los Angeles)

Viewpoint editor Gord Price is in Palm Springs, California, for Pride (and a heavy dose of mid-century modernism) until mid-November.…
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Feb. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

SkyTrain for LA?

When SkyTrain opened for Expo in 1985, it was hoped it could become a popular alternative for rapid transit.   Other…
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Oct. 16, 2020 / Gordon Price

From LA to BC, the Futile Future of Congestion Pricing

  On Thursday, the Eno Transportation Centre presented another of their webinars, this one with an irresistible title: The webinar…
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Apr. 24, 2020 / Gordon Price

Viral Transformation: Los Angeles

A lovely ten-panel reflection in the NY Times on how Los Angeles has changed in the spring of the virus. …
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May. 10, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Third Los Angeles

KCET, the #2 public television station in the US, airs Artbound, an art and culture series now in its ninth…
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Mar. 07, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Great Los Angeles Parking Experiment

From Bloomberg: In Los Angeles, it’s perfectly legal to build a new apartment without a refrigerator, a balcony, or air…
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Feb. 26, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The U.S. 10 Year Census Count Tries to Find Every Dwelling, Especially in Cities

In cities where there is a shortage of housing and people are living in unorthodox dwellings, how do you carry…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / Gordon Price

PT in LA

For the next week, PT founder Gord Price will be in Los Angeles – with his phone and camera.  Follow…
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Jan. 25, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Officer, the Autonomous Car Caused the Crash.

It is not a good thing to smash your Tesla into the back of a parked fire truck on San…
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Jan. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Los Angeles, Density and "Neighbourhood Character"

Los Angeles is a city where residents have had a say in development over the past fifty years.  The Economist  writes…

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