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Jan. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

California in its Golden Age

When and where was the best time and place to live on this little green-and-blue planet? In the running, I’d…
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Jan. 09, 2015 / Gordon Price

Colin Marshall’s latest on Los Angeles, City in Cinema

L.A.-based podcaster and writer Colin Marshall hosts Notebook on Cities and Culture [iTunes].  (Worth subscribing to here.  In 2013, I…
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Jan. 06, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Stirred Pot: Gentrification, NIMBYism, Class and Bad Blood

Up and down the west coast. In Seattle (from the New York Times): In Suburban Seattle, New Nests for China’s…
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Oct. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Do you not find this stressful?: A Vancouverite’s experience cycling in Los Angeles

By Stephen Corwin in medium.com: When I suggested (to my Vancouver girlfriend) that we take our bikes to Koreatown, I…
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Oct. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Cities vs Apps

From CBC San Francisco: More Cities Join SF In Effort To Ban MonkeyParking App That Auctions Off Spaces To Highest Bidder …
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Oct. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

Old Maps, New Plans: Lessons for Vancouver

Colleen Hardwick recommends this article from CityLab: . What Old Transit Maps Can Teach Us About a City’s Future An…
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

By comparison: If you think a high percent of Metro Vancouver's housing has been built downtown …

Try Los Angeles. . From Curbed LA: One-Fifth of LA’s New Housing in Past 15 Years is in Downtown .…
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Sep. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Growth Ponzi Scheme in L.A.

Strong Towns advocate Charles Marohn maintains that “our post-World War II pattern of development operates like a classic Ponzi scheme, with…
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Aug. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Cities by Writers

Scot links to a clever idea in The Guardian: critiques of cities by writers who live in them. The first by…
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Jun. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Time-lapse LA: The traffic, always the traffic

It’s mesmerizing. Another one from Chris Pritchard: turn on the HD, turn up the volume, and click to full screen:…
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May. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Greenest Street in the World Competition 7 – Santa Monica

Don’t know whether it’s the ‘greenest,’ but San Vincente Boulevard in Santa Monica (map here) has one of the most extraordinary…
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Apr. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Time-lapse LA: A century-plus of sprawl

While we’re in time-lapse mode, Greg Vann links us to some beautiful maps of “Sprawl in L.A. from 1877 to…
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Mar. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

The New Second World

In the American Mid-West, the gravel road is making a comeback: The paved roads that finally brought rural America into…
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Feb. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

The End of Motordom: Jaywalking in L.A.

For anyone familiar with the history of Motordom, as documented in Fighting Traffic by Peter Norton and summarized in Happy…

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