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Feb. 07, 2011 / Gordon Price

Debt and Red Tape

… two things you’d like to avoid, particularly if you’re financing and upgrading a heritage building or house. The Vancouver Heritage…

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Feb. 02, 2011 / Gordon Price

Mountain Viewing

“The Mountain View Cemetery tour schedule is up and running.” (A little cemetery humour there, eh?) Details here. February 16th…

Feb. 01, 2011 / Gordon Price

Places That Matter

This just out from the Vancouver Heritage Foundation: Places That Matter Marking 125 historic sites that matter to Vancouverites…

Jan. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

Nostalgia Hit – Vancouver Parks in 1940

Here’s a nice piece to match up with SCARP’s 60th anniversary: what Vancouver Parks looked like in 1940, when the…

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Jan. 20, 2011 / Gordon Price

Freeways and Chinatowns

Jean Chong makes a fascinating point in her post documenting monuments to Chinese-Canadian railway workers: At different times during the 1960’s-1970’s,…

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Jan. 12, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Past from Above

Now this is fascinating: This is the Las Vegas Strip seen from ab0ve – the same view a half century apart –…

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Dec. 17, 2010 / Gordon Price

Christmas Gift 2

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation has come up with a traditional gift – a calendar – that at first glance looks…

Dec. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

William Gibson on the way it was

Author (“sci-fi novelist”) William Gibson in an interview. (He lives in Vancouver.) No one in Zero History seems to be…

Nov. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

To Chuck

Chuck Davis was the voice of Vancouver’s collective memory. I first heard him on CBC radio when living in Victoria…

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Nov. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Readings

Suggestions from Price Tags readers … Scot Bathgate in New Zealand recommends this article “out of a cabinet minister in…

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Nov. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

Walking Home

Went for a walk last week – with an engaging group of students whom I met in the Woodward’s Atrium. …

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Nov. 09, 2010 / Gordon Price

Events, Dear Boy, Events

Some upcoming events of interest: HOW DID THAT GREEN SPACE GET THERE Have you ever thought about who creates the…

Oct. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

Carl Elefante: the Heritage and Sustainability Nexus

Carl Elefante is the guy who coined the phrase: “The greenest building is the one that is already built.” He…

Sep. 13, 2010 / Gordon Price

Quote: Ouroboroses

In a New York Times’s review of “Zero History,” William Gibson’s new novel, Scarlett Thomas writes: The only other writer who…

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