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Dec. 29, 2010 / Gordon Price

The End of Urban Anonymity?

Conor Friedersdorf is asking the question, and you might want to help him out. Here is the question I want…
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Dec. 22, 2010 / Gordon Price

Readings: A Physicist Solves the City

This piece in the New York Times Magazine is getting a lot of positive references.  (Physicist Geoffrey West) saw the metropolis…
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Dec. 21, 2010 / Gordon Price

The No-Go Zone

Two seemingly unrelated stories in today’s papers: From The Globe and Mail: Sky-rocketing real estate prices in desirable areas creating…
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Sep. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Stimulus for Your Brain

It’s almost time for the Fall Lecture season to begin. Here are some upcoming ones you might want to put in…
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Aug. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Marriage of Technology … and Marriage

Brent Wittmeier, a UBC journalism student, wrote a three-part article for a class taught by The Tyee editor David Beers…
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May. 04, 2010 / Gordon Price

Update: Dallas street-claiming

Scot Bathgate reports: An update on the guerilla street design project in Dallas that you put on your blog: the city…
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Feb. 02, 2010 / Gordon Price

Air People

Photographer Alex Waterhouse-Hayward reflects on whether Vancouver has become a city of vertical gated communities: It was in 2001 that…
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Dec. 05, 2009 / Gordon Price

Woodward’s – First Impressions

Woodward’s is big, it’s complex.  No doubt, it’s transformative. First impression: 3 pm, Saturday December 5 – in the atrium.…
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Nov. 30, 2009 / Gordon Price

White City

Sorry for the lack of posts.  A little of the ol’ H1N1, I think.  Like a fine wine, it lingers. But…
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Nov. 25, 2009 / Gordon Price

Show Time

The New York Times covers Woodward’s. With so many public and private interests involved, the Woodward’s challenge was “how to…
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Sep. 11, 2008 / Gordon Price

The Demographic Inversion

From an article by Alan Ehrenhalt in The New Republic: No American city looks like Vancouver at the moment. But…
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Dec. 11, 2007 / Gordon Price

The American Dream Foreclosed

If you’re a reader of James Kunstler’s books and blog, you’re familiar with his argument that “the suburbs have no…
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Aug. 18, 2007 / Gordon Price

Woodward's Rising

As I learned on Council, when it comes to the issue of housing, especially in the Downtown East Side, advocates…
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Aug. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Civilization on Granville Street

It took awhile – but at last we figured it out: closing a street to vehicles when the sidewalks are…

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