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Sep. 14, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Bidding Wars for Renters, Not Just Purchasers

This article in the Vancouver Sun by Susan Lazaruk describes how Biddwell.com  hopes to provide a tool for landlords to find-well,…
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Aug. 31, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Driverless Technology-Can you can go your own way?

There is a lot of chat about driverless cars-but this article from the New York Times and this one in the…
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Aug. 15, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Comprehensive Case for Town Planners

The Guardian released a preliminary report prepared by Britain’s Royal Town Planning Institute on the state of planning in Britain,…
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Aug. 11, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

McMansions-What they are, how to describe them

This article from McMansionhell outlines those proportions and massings we see on some new large single family housing that somehow doesn’t…
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Jul. 08, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Secrets of the City-Sunset Nursery

If you travel to cities in North America, you will see spring and summer floral creations with baskets of colourful…
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Jul. 06, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Rise and Fall of the Country Lane

  Price Tags has explored the Country Lane, and there has been some speculation as to the origins of this…
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Jul. 04, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Main Street and the Hip-o-Metre

  As reported on Global News and in the business section of the Vancouver Sun Main Street has been named by the Cushman &…
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Jun. 20, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Streets New York City Style

  As we move towards the summer solstice today, there are other cities heating up the summer activities in their…
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Jun. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The Friday File-Real Estate Mania

You heard it on Friday File first-the “story of how Vancouver lost its affordability-and its mind.” Produced by Visual Capitalist…
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Jun. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Where Do We Go From Here?

  Bob Rennie of Bob Rennie Realty spoke to the Urban Development Institute (UDI) on Thursday, giving his professional and…
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Mar. 24, 2016 / tanyapazzy

Traffic Cones. Orange is the New Urban: Mockery, Fashion, and Rogue Transformer @AwarenessCone #Philly @PBOTrans #PDX @Moschino

OMG traffic cones are all the rage. The revolution has begun and it has bounced off Twitter onto our streets.…
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Mar. 22, 2016 / tanyapazzy

Mayor as Celebrity or Let's Make Bogotà's Mayor More Famous

Today Toronto Mayor Rob Ford died at age 46. RIP. Click here for my earlier post about it. It got…
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Jun. 26, 2013 / Gordon Price

Reading this in a coffee shop? Well, no wonder

From the New York Times: In a series of experiments that looked at the effects of noise on creative thinking,…
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Apr. 10, 2013 / Gordon Price

Hey, SFU: The Golden Age of Gondolas … may be now

From Atlantic Cities: So why is this only happening now? Cable-drawn transport has existed for thousands of years, and was…

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