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Jun. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bicycle Parking: The Utrecht Touch

This is so delightfully Dutch: bikes, technology and earnestness. From NL Cycling:  Bicycle Parking Guidance System in Utrecht . The system…
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Jun. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bicycle Parking: The Delft Touch

From CityLab: . The Dutch (Of Course) Just Mastered Bicycle Parking This is what it looks like when bikes are…
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Apr. 21, 2015 / Gordon Price

Panel on the ‘Circular Economy’ – Innovations from Canada and the Netherlands

  . Replacing today’s take-make-dispose economy with one that is restorative by design, the circular economy is gaining significant traction…
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Mar. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Public Art: “Waterlight”

Ian Robertson (“good idea for Richmond?“) passes this along from Grist: Dutch virtual sky flood is as terrifying as it is…
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Jan. 14, 2015 / Gordon Price

Passerelles from Fiction: The Euro banknote bridges

Gladys We discovered these in dezeen: Dutch designer Robin Stam was inspired by the seven images of archetypal bridges originally created…
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Jan. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bike Path of the Year

The Van Gogh, of course – a solar-powered pathway inspired by “Starry Night” . Links for video and pics at…
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Nov. 20, 2014 / Gordon Price

How brick streets are laid in The Netherlands

From a tweet by way of Jennifer Keesmaat: .…
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Jun. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Berms, Bjarke and the Big U: Soft post-Sandy strategies

This is big.  And BIG.  From climateprogress: Two states are receiving $920 million from the federal government, money that’s part…
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Apr. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

Climate Change in America: Thinking like the Dutch

Russell Shorto profiles Henk Ovink in the New York Times Magazine: “How to Think Like the Dutch in a Post-Sandy…
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Oct. 23, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 18 – Groningen

This university town was on my itinerary in a previous trip to the Netherlands, so I didn’t feature it in…
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Sep. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

All 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands

According to year of construction. . You can go from this: . To this: Here.…
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Aug. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 16 – Recycling and Waste-to-Energy

Assorted items and reflections from my tour of The Netherlands – this time on recycling and waste. When it comes to…
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Aug. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary – 15: "Delving into the Dutch Way"

My latest Business in Vancouver column: . Delving into the Dutch Way and the Netherlands’ world-beating power of consensus-based economics…
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Jul. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Impossible Architecture – 5

From designboom: Belgian artist filip dujardin photomontages from photographs of real buildings:…

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