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Apr. 12, 2017 / Gordon Price

Free Webinar Series: Paris — Reclaiming the city – Apr 19

SFU Next Generation Transportation Beyond the Anglosphere — Perspectives from Montreal, Europe, and Latin America Paris — Reclaiming the city for…
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Jan. 09, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Year of the Bicyclette

As reported by Reuters Paris is aggressively working towards a cyclable city , banning cars outside the Louvre and announcing a two-way…
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Dec. 05, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Diesel becomes a Dinosaur in Four Cities

  The C40 Mayors Summit has just finished in Mexico City and incoming Chair of the C40, Mayor of Paris…
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Nov. 16, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Motorists fume as the Right Bank Turns Left

As reported by the CBC and others the City of Paris is doing a remarkable thing in permanently closing the Right…
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Oct. 23, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Snapshots from France

Pictures of the self-driving free bus that runs around the Confluence district in Lyon… It putters along the quiet roadway…
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Sep. 30, 2016 / Gordon Price

Reclaiming the Seine

An update from Paris, via The Guardian:   Paris mayor heralds ‘reconquest of Seine’ as riverbank traffic banned Paris city…
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Sep. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

Paris: Carmaggedon fails to appear – again

Alarmists keep predicting massive traffic failure and gridlock whenever a significant step is taken to reverse Motordom – most  recently…
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Sep. 09, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Right Bank, Right Choice

From The Guardian: It is 8.30am on a weekday rush hour and the Voie Georges-Pompidou along the right bank of…
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Aug. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian And Daily Scot: Rent Control in Paris and New York

Ian – Memo to Vancouver: Whenever someone says that nothing can be done to make Vancouver more affordable … they’re…
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Jul. 18, 2016 / Gordon Price

Public spaces in London and Paris

The kind of changes unimaginable not a few years ago: London – from the BBC: Oxford Street will be pedestrianised…
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Jul. 04, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

If Paris Can Do It, Why Can't We?

Like London, Paris is now building fast bike lanes free of motorized vehicles, as mentioned in this article from City…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: “Social rebalancing or class war?”

Ian: Let’s see some of this in West Van / Point Grey 🙂 The French capital badly needs more affordable housing…
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May. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Paris Modernism: Neglected Utopia

Neglected Utopia: Photographer explores the forgotten modernist estates of Paris From the 1950s to the 1980s, Paris was booming. Foreign…
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Nov. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Paris / November 2015 – Perspective

From Paul Krugman: So what was Friday’s attack about? Killing random people in restaurants and at concerts is a strategy…

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