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Mar. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: An absence of the iconic

Why is this place more ‘iconic’ than the place they’re going to? To find out, visit Price Points at Spacing…
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Mar. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: A Bewildering Birth

Names from the past:  Electrolier.  Kelly-Douglas.  Sears (well, not quite yet).  Where is this, and why does it have its…
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Feb. 20, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Old L.A.

Here’s a shot of Old L.A.  That means the early Thirties.  But where? . . To find out, and to…
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Feb. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: A Hint of What was to Come

Where is this, what’s inside and why does it look this way? . . To find out, go to Price…
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Feb. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Versailles in Suburbia

Acres of formal gardens, beautifully maintained – inspired by Versailles and Hampton Court, of all places, but mere meters from…
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Jan. 30, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Towers in the Distant

You see these towers from Highway 1, heading east, way beyond the Vancouver City border.   Where are they, and why…
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Jan. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Vision from the Sixties

It’s the Sixties, it’s a municipal town centre – but where? . To find out where – and what happened…
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Jan. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points – The first new town centre

It could have been this: . . This rendering from 1971 was a vision of a new regional town centre.  But where? …
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Jan. 09, 2012 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Our mini-High Line

It looks like a heavily landscaped path in some park, or perhaps part of the South False Creek seawall –…
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Jan. 05, 2012 / Gordon Price

“Better! Cities & Towns” features Shanghai

Editor Philip Langdon picked up our Price Tags on Shanghai: The essay captures a huge, ambitious city in all its…
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Dec. 19, 2011 / Gordon Price

Price Points: A place that matters

Where is this – and why does it matter?  Enough to be worthy of a plaque that says so. .…
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Dec. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

The 110th issue of Price Tags: Shanghai

Price Tags is back.  The old Price Tags, that is – a kind of digital magazine on urbanism. I used…
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Dec. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Price Points: A Golden Intersection

Where is this, and why is it called “The Golden Intersection”? . . Find out here at Price Points, in…
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Nov. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

Price Points: Lesson from the Development Wars

Where is this going to be built – and what was lost along the way? . . Find out here at…

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