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Feb. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Test Preferences: “Where In Los Angeles Should You Live?”

BuzzFeed came up with this clever way of determining the L.A. neighbourhood that best matches your preferences. First, you answer…
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Jan. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

Learning from LA: The Auckland Perspective

Further to the post below on the background to Los Angeles’s Measure R initiative, the transportblog in Auckland (a version…
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Jan. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The Stakes – and the Stories of Los Angeles

Measure R – the $40-billion initiative for transportation upgrades that passed in 2008 by a two-thirds majority in Los Angeles County – has…
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Jan. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

The End of Motordom? – Not so fast

From the Globe and Mail: … we can be sure of this: if economics and government interventions were taken out…
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Jan. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

The End of Motordom? – The Ford Perspective

From DCStreetsblog: Ford CEO: More Cars in Cities “Not Going to Work” It’s the last thing you would expect to…
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Nov. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

Los Angeles on Bicycle

Chris Bruntlett, HUSH’s cycling columnist, explored Los Angeles via bicycle and public transit, and meeting with local transportation advocates to chat…
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Nov. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

Freeways without a Future: Terminal Island

From dc.streetsblog: The LA Times reported this week that Long Beach officials are studying the possibility of replacing a one-mile…
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Jul. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

L.A. in 2013: New tune on Broadway

Here’s what L.A. can look like today just outside the Bradbury Building on the left – the setting in Blade…
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Jul. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

Blade Runner’s L.A. – a decade before

Blade Runner was set in 2019.  This video shows what the city and the settings looked like in 2009, seamlessley…
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Apr. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

For Whom the Tolls Toll: Orange County roads

To the list of failed Australian tolled tunnels, we can add a lengthening list of California toll roads: California: Toll…
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Apr. 05, 2013 / Gordon Price

Gangster gardening in L.A.

Scot Bathgate loves this TED Talk:…
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Mar. 18, 2013 / Gordon Price

Los Angeles: What they thought and what they got

On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine pub­lished a 25-year look ahead to 2013. Here’s the cover of…
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Feb. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

The irony of zoning in Los Angeles

From L.A. Streetsblog: Land use rules implemented in the past to protect public health have today become health hazards. As…
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Oct. 29, 2012 / Gordon Price

Vancouver comes to Hollywood

Oh boy, this is stirring up the dust near Hollywood and Vine: Millenium Partners and Argent Ventures have released a website and the…

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