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Jun. 01, 2010 / Gordon Price

Make Glad the City

Some 50 kilometres southeast of San Francisco, where the sprawl gives way to rolling hills of grass and copses of…

May. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Calgary outgreens us!

The Mercer Quality of Living Survey is out. (Available here.) This year, Vienna is tops. Vancouver ties for fourth with…

May. 26, 2010 / Gordon Price

Consolidation

I suppose, on the whole, this is good news. Smart Growth Goes National Smart Growth BC has announced that its…

May. 03, 2010 / Gordon Price

Going Green for CNN and Expo

CNN did a nice piece on “Cities blazing a green trail.” Nothing new for those up on the latest developments;…

Apr. 28, 2010 / Gordon Price

‘Just’ sustainability

Toward a ‘just’ sustainability Sustainability is often thought of as ‘science’. In this lecture, Julian Agyeman argues we have the…

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Apr. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Keeping Portland weird

THE city most comparable to Portland might be Vancouver in Canada, reckons Sam Adams, Portland’s mayor, although “we look to…

Mar. 29, 2010 / Gordon Price

Vancouver on radio on the web

Among the interviews about Vancouver that I did during the Olympics, one was with Ian and Tonya Fitzpatrick, hosts of a…

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Feb. 16, 2010 / Gordon Price

Sustainability Time

Coverage begins to pick up on the green theme. First, the announcement that the Olympic Village was “awarded LEED Platinum…

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Jan. 25, 2010 / Gordon Price

The Fast Lane

I usually start my week with James Kunstler’s blog entry. The rest of the week only seems more, um, optimistic by comparison. …

Jan. 12, 2010 / Gordon Price

A rising tide

There’s going to be a flood of articles profiling Vancouver as the Olympics focus international attention on us. Please send…

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Jan. 04, 2010 / Gordon Price

Bad timing

It’s opening day for the Burj Dubai – the Empire State Building of our time. Like the ‘Empty State Building’…

Dec. 22, 2009 / Gordon Price

Khazzoom-Brookes in action

Years ago I came across a description of the Khazzoom-Brookes Postulate (it has several names) and wrote about it in…

Dec. 18, 2009 / Gordon Price

A little bit of balance

Jarrett Walker responds to the ‘transit isn’t green ’cause it runs empty’ argument in his Human Transit blog: If public…

Dec. 15, 2009 / Gordon Price

Why car drivers should love transit

My post on the Sun’s Community of Interest blog: Kevin Libin has apparently never heard of an electric trolley bus. Otherwise…

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