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Jul. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

Board of Trade goes viral

This morning, I already had two messages of this note from Jan Pezarro: During the 2010 Winter Games Metro Vancouver…

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Jun. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Gold for Green

I referenced this article – originally published by the Urban Land Institute in its excellent journal “Urban Land” – on…

May. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Looking back into the future

Here’s a column I wrote for Business in Vancouver, published in July 2001. It’s my forecast for the built legacy…

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Apr. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver’s Green Gold

ULI’s Urban Land magazine has just published a piece on Vancouver’s Olympic transportation experience. Martin Zimmerman’s piece provides a remarkable…

Apr. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Post-Game Analysis

Even before the Olympics were over, we at the SFU City Program knew it would be fascinating to get some…

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Apr. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Security Theatre

A post-Olympics conundrum. What is the difference between this: And this: The first is the LiveCity site downtown; the second…

Mar. 29, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver on radio on the web

Among the interviews about Vancouver that I did during the Olympics, one was with Ian and Tonya Fitzpatrick, hosts of a…

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Mar. 01, 2010 / Gordon Price

Spring Break

Back on March 25. …

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Feb. 27, 2010 / Gordon Price

O14 – Blur

Sometimes those shaky shots at low light levels produce some nice effects. Here are two taken at the Surrey Celebration…

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Feb. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Box Art

From Gladys We: “My vote for the best piece of public art is this piece … an inukshuk made out of…

Feb. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Let the Debate Begin

Yesterday, prompted by a release from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s office, the media went after the transportation story. It’s the…

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Feb. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

O13 – Lead

One of the legacies of the Games will be the public art that has animated our public spaces – and our skies. In…

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Feb. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

O12 – Gold

The Games are still on, but it’s not too early to pass out some honours in a few categories. Like…

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Feb. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

011 – Snapshots

Vancouver moments while cycling around the peninsula: Like, street hockey among the daffodils. __________________________ But where are the cyclists? Biking…

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