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Aug. 31, 2010 / Gordon Price

Neighbourhood Competition – 2

Think you know Vancouver neighbour- hoods?  Thanks to the latest issue of Vancouver Magazine’s City Guide, we can compare stats. …
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Aug. 24, 2010 / Gordon Price

Neighbourhood Competition – 1

So you think you know Vancouver neighbourhoods?  Thanks to the latest issue of Vancouver Magazine’s City Guide, we can compare…
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Aug. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Dream or Nightmare?

Don Buchanan sends along an article from New Geography: Vancouver: Planner’s Dream, Middle Class Nightmare. With a reiteration of familiar arguments,…
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Aug. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Something Special

It’s back! VANCOUVER SPECIAL – The Tour The 2009 inaugural tour was sold out and saw over 600 ticket holders…
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Aug. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Burnaby’s Interactive Heritage

This is impressive: Sharing the honour with the Smithsonian Institute, the City of Burnaby Archives is the winner of ArchivesNext’s…
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Aug. 05, 2010 / Gordon Price

Heritage on Bike

John Atkin, civic historian and author, writes: After having so much fun with Velopalooza this summer, I’ve added a bike tour…
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Jul. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

Walking the West End

An update from James Johnstone: This past Monday I made a presentation at the City of Vancouver Archives, a virtual walking…
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Jul. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver in Shanghai

Knute Berger, of Seattle’s Crosscut, does a cutting critique of the Vancouver pavillion at the Shanghai Expo: …. the Vancouver…
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May. 19, 2010 / Gordon Price

More change at City Hall

A few additions to the City Hall post below. The Canada Line station has some cutsey public art: the always-popular…
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May. 18, 2010 / Gordon Price

Up vs Out

The Globe reports on a Neptis Foundation study of urban growth in three Canadian cities.  You won’t be surprised. While Vancouver…
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May. 17, 2010 / Gordon Price

Change at City Hall

The non-political ones, that is.  And certainly the biggest change is the Canada Line.  City Hall is now five minutes or less…
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May. 07, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Living and the Dead

WEST VANCOUVER  HOUSING FORUM Join me on May 18th for a panel discussion on how to respond to West Vancouver’s…
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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…
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Apr. 20, 2010 / Gordon Price

Death and Remembrance

For those who like architecture and history, one  of the best places to visit in Vancouver is Mountain View Cemetary.…

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