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Sep. 15, 2012 / Gordon Price

UnLEEDed? Green Buildings and Ratings System

From Lighthouse Sustainable Design Centre:…

Sep. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Camels and Universal Tolls

It won’t be just on the Port Mann Bridge. Frank Luba in The Province captured my sentiments: Gord Price, director…

Aug. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

What the future looks like: Self-driving cars

Neil Salmond has the same fascination as I do with the prospect of this technology – the autonomous vehicle – that…

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Jul. 24, 2012 / Gordon Price

A History of the Main Street SkyTrain Station

Andrew T. Jones, an Urban Studies student at SFU, has just started to post excerpts from his research project on the…

Jul. 03, 2012 / Gordon Price

Motordom: Piece by piece. Almost.

The internal combustion engine deconstructed. Literally. .…

Jun. 12, 2012 / Gordon Price

Does the driverless car mean the end of the private automobile?

I didn’t really think it was really possible to develop a practical driverless car. Until Google did it: . And…

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May. 24, 2012 / Gordon Price

Technology and Congestion – Together Again

New Transportation Technologies for Reducing Congestion Date(s): Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 7–8:30 pm Location: Room 1400, Simon Fraser University Vancouver,…

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Apr. 17, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Need for Quiet Cities

From Atlantic Cities: “People think, ‘Oh we need electricity from solar panels, we need x-y-z system, we need to use…

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Mar. 22, 2012 / Gordon Price

Pricing Our Roads: What can Metro Vancouver learn from Seattle?

There will be limited seating for this one, so sign up soon. Tolling? Road pricing? New technologies? The Sustainable Transportation…

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Feb. 28, 2012 / Gordon Price

A Gondola for Seattle

While the proposal for a Burnaby Mountain gondola to SFU is still under consideration, maybe Seattle will beat us to…

Oct. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Human Earth

From The Dish: Some scientists and scholars are calling today’s era the Anthropocene, a unique geological age where human activity,…

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Sep. 30, 2011 / Gordon Price

Happy New Year in Amsterdam

Nothing to do with bicycles. But you can see “how data generated by our very humanity can weave itself into…

Jul. 27, 2011 / Gordon Price

Shoppin’ in the Subway: Tesco in Korea

Jamey Gillis noted this video – basically a promo by grocery operator Tesco – of a new way to shop…

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