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Mar. 08, 2012 / Gordon Price

STROADS and the Old

Another insightful column by Charles Marohn in Better! Cities & Towns: A STROAD is a street/road hybrid; the futon of…
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Mar. 01, 2012 / Gordon Price

Writers Reading the City … in Surrey

Isn’t it intriguing that Surrey Art Gallery is featuring urbanity more than, um, some others.   Makes sense, actually, when you…
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Mar. 01, 2012 / Gordon Price

A Convenience Truth – The Tyee series

The Tyee is running a series authored by UBC professor of Landscape Architecture Patrick Condon drawing from the book A Convenience…
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Mar. 01, 2012 / Gordon Price

Cabrini Green: An epic and tragic tale of a Chicago housing project

From The Design Observer’s Places: Housing Chicago: Cabrini-Green to Parkside of Old Town It’s an extensive story, but here’s the…
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Jan. 06, 2012 / Gordon Price

Urban Futures: Migration declines

This just in, from Urban Futures: Release of the provincial quarterly migration data. We wrote in the spring about a…
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Dec. 10, 2011 / Gordon Price

Overlapping Maps: housing prices and politics

Well, Pete McMartin’s column in today’s Sun sure grabbed my attention: Main Street, the great divide About a month ago, Andy…
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Oct. 24, 2011 / Gordon Price

The most interesting block in Vancouver

Michael Alexander nominates the Zero Block on West Hastings: In the last year it’s been coming back to life, and the city…
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Aug. 26, 2011 / Gordon Price

PlaceMaking: The Kid Question

Conor Graham passed along a post from the PlaceShakers blog – written by Ben Brown and Scott Doyon with the…
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Jul. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

The cost of cultivating sports culture

My Business in Vancouver column: Where does “riot control” fit in when you’re budgeting for the arts? Culture, says Tourism…
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Jul. 06, 2011 / Gordon Price

Squeeze Play: Lessons from a small space

Petti Fong writes in the Toronto Star about small spaces: 270 square feet of home sweet home? That’s life in…
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Jun. 20, 2011 / Gordon Price

Coverage

A little self-indulgent, I know, to post your own press clippings.  But it makes for a quick post and an…
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Jun. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Room to Read: A Cycle through India

From Doria Moodie: On Thursday July 7 at 7 pm, we are hosting an event at SFU Woodwards (Djavad Mowafaghian…
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Jun. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

Mercado Negro

Tom Durning sends along another bit of detritus from the Interwebs – in this case the work of RAMÓN CORONADO:…
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Jan. 28, 2011 / Gordon Price

SCARP Symposium

The School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC is 60 this year (and yet it looks so young!).  The…

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