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Mar. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Edmonton and great urban design

Not words normally found in the same sentence.  But, reports the Edmonton Journal: long-awaited proposals released  for redeveloping the City…
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Mar. 15, 2011 / Gordon Price

Density, not highrises?

David Owen, author of Green Metropolis, will  deliver a talk at the Playhouse on March 17; the event starts at 7:30…
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Feb. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Olympic Village reborn?

Frances Bula calls it “the strangest travel piece ever” – here in the New York Times.  Judge for yourself. Actually, it…
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Feb. 14, 2011 / Gordon Price

Listen: Inaugural Lecture

The new SFU Institute for Values in Policy and Science invites you to their opening event: “Policy in the Face…
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Feb. 13, 2011 / Gordon Price

PT FilmFest (3): Joyride

“I actually was a Canadian …” So begins Mia Birk’s story.  Mia spoke at an SFU City Program event on…
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Feb. 11, 2011 / Gordon Price

“How skyscapers can save the city”

Just to stir the pot up a bit – an essay in The Atlantic by Edward Glaeser. Besides making cities more…
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Feb. 09, 2011 / Gordon Price

Jevons Paradox in Action: High-Speed Rail

From World Streets: HSR is promoted as something that can sort out nasty carbon producing aircraft on domestic routes. It…
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Feb. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Connections: Degrees

A few degrees of centigrade, a few degrees of separation ……
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Feb. 04, 2011 / Gordon Price

SFU Vancouver’s Open House today

About two decades ago SFU took its first venture off Burnaby Mountain.  Started with a building on Howe Street.  Refurbished an…
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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. 15, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the Heat – 2

From Australian Broadcasting via Transport Newsletter 180: The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat…
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Dec. 08, 2010 / Gordon Price

Taking the heat

Two stories by Jeff Lee in the Sun worth emphasizing: Olympic Village’s heat-from-sewage utility a monetary success Vancouver’s sewage heat-generated utility…
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Sep. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

Stewart Brand on “New Urbanism”

To get a flavour of Stewart Brand’s iconoclastic thinking, check out this reprint of his anaylsis of New Urbanism here.…
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Sep. 23, 2010 / Gordon Price

Speaking of Sustainability

The Brand lecture is almost half full already.  Sign up now if you really plan to attend. And from our…

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