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Jun. 11, 2012 / Gordon Price

Roxy on the Wall

From the Vancouver Heritage Foundation: LAUNCH OF NEW PUBLIC ART EXHIBIT AT THE CBC WALL Coming up on Tuesday, June…
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Jun. 08, 2012 / Gordon Price

New Feature on SpacingVancouver: Visual Thoughts

From Erick Villa-Gomez: … everyday we are bombarded with all types of visual flotsam. Images of everything—from buildings and ads…
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Jun. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Density in a City of Neighbourhoods (1)

On June 5 2012, Carbon Talks and the City of Vancouver brought together representatives from communities throughout the city to…
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May. 31, 2012 / Gordon Price

It’s raining, you’re bored: How to kill an afternoon

You go here – to the Vancouver Archives digital reproduction of Early Vancouver, Volume 1 – compiled from all sorts of…
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May. 29, 2012 / Gordon Price

A bicycle ride through Vancouver in 1974

I don’t know how BLAH City comes up with these videos – but this is an amazing find: a 1974 bike…
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May. 25, 2012 / Gordon Price

Vanishing Vancouver: Insights a la Kluckner

Michael Kluckner, author of Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years, spoke to a full house at the Vancouver Historical Society…
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May. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Roundhouse Turntable Plaza Opening

It was a sodden day.  A holiday weekend, of course: . But in a way, that was the point.  Now…
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May. 16, 2012 / Gordon Price

Why Vancouver will be uninhabitable

Better! Cities & Towns blogger Steve Mouzon “created a small firestorm” when he tweetcast Leon Krier’s critique of highrises at…
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May. 08, 2012 / Gordon Price

The West End: Emergence of the commercial village – continued

David Banks sends along another shot of an emerging commercial village in the West End – this time from 1928…
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May. 07, 2012 / Gordon Price

The West End: Emergence of the commercial village

Clearly, David Banks finds historic photos as fascinating as I do. He sent an image that reveals dramatically how certain…
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May. 03, 2012 / Gordon Price

Treasure Trove: Vintage Air Photos of B.C.

David Banks, in a comment below, alerts us to a remarkable website – Vintage Air Photos of B.C. – which…
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May. 02, 2012 / Gordon Price

Vancouver in ’72 – the Curt Lang Exhibition and Symposium

. If you haven’t seen the photographs of Curt Lang now hanging in the Teck Gallery at the north end…
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May. 02, 2012 / Gordon Price

Kluckner – On the evolution of the Vancouver apartment building

In celebration of Michael Kluckner’s new book – Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years – I asked him to send…
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May. 01, 2012 / Gordon Price

A History of Vancouver – YouTube size

Frankly, bland.  Helpful if you’re not familiar with our short history, but a very chronological approach.  Produced, I assume, by…

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