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Apr. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Our Times: Last call

Pacific Central Station…
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Apr. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Panel: “World Class Roadways in B.C.” – Apr 23

Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future Innovative Design and Development for World Class Roadways in British Columbia Innovative opportunities allowing British…
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Feb. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Springfield comes to Mumbai: Monorail opens

From the NY Times: India’s 1st Monorail Opens in Mumbai to Much Fanfare and Doubt The monorail, the first of…
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Jan. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Shipping Report: Sea blindness – automated

Price Tags hasn’t posted much on shipping, even though Vancouver is one of the most important seaports on the continent,…
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Jan. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 71: Tolling the Present … Predicting the Future … Measuring the Moment

An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance ______________________________________________________________   TAKING A TALLY OF TOLLING…
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Nov. 26, 2013 / Gordon Price

Mike Klassen: Country Lane demo

Mike Klassen loves his country lane in the heart of the city: A short demonstration (recorded with my iPhone) of a…
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Sep. 19, 2013 / Gordon Price

Advances in Electrification – Sep 26

Advances in the Electrification of Transportation: Design, Innovation and User Experience Date: Thursday, September 26 Time: 5-8 pm Place: Rm.…
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Sep. 17, 2013 / Gordon Price

Auto-autos: Too Good to be True, or Too True to be Good?

From Montreal-based Marcon’s Autonomous Vehicle Newsletter: Professor Alberto Broggi at VisLab’s facilities, located at the University of Parma, is a definite…
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Jun. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 9: Science Fiction on the Quays of Rotterdam

Since 1956, with the invention of the shipping container – one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century – the…
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Apr. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

Andrew Blum: Discovering the real places of the Internet – May 2

Andrew Blum, author of Tubes, will be in town for the BC Net conference, and fortunately we’ve been able to grab…
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Apr. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

An Un-Truism for Our Time: 'You can't get people out of their cars'

A truism is basically something that doesn’t have to be stated: everyone knows it’s true, whether agreed with or not.…
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Apr. 19, 2013 / Gordon Price

Free Lecture: Tubes and Exchanges – Discovering the real places of the Internet

If you’re the least bit curious about how the Internet shapes urban form (or even what physically constitutes the Internet),…
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Apr. 15, 2013 / Gordon Price

Riddle: What do the typewriter, the flush toilet and the air conditioner have in common?

Find out here – in Urban Land.…
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Apr. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Vancouver's Transit System in the 1950's + the Edmonton Streetcar Librarian

Colleen Hardwick recommends this vintage footage – with some remarkable shots of Main Street to Hastings, just at the time…

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