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Sep. 24, 2019 / Gordon Price

Scooter World: Vienna

From John Graham: We’re in Vienna and electric scooters are everywhere, and you only have to look at this Google…
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Dec. 21, 2018 / Gordon Price

Davis on Density: Some Comparisons (especially Vancouver and Paris) – 1

Tim Davis, a Portlander and occasional PT commenter, also publishes urbanistically interesting posts – like this one on comparative densities…
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Aug. 01, 2018 / Colin Stein

Urbanist Abroad: Bligh’s Backpacking – Vienna

According to intrepid PT correspondent James Bligh, three days in Vienna is not enough time to digest “the complex layers…
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May. 31, 2017 / Gordon Price

Affordable Housing: "How to live in Vienna"

Want to learn more about social housing in Vienna? Go to the Vancouver Museum exhibition.  And watch this “How to…
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May. 18, 2017 / Gordon Price

Housing Crisis: The Vienna Alternative

ALTERNATIVES TO THE HOUSING CRISIS: CASE STUDY VIENNA Using Vienna as a case study, this lecture explores the relationship of…
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Feb. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Articles: Sustainable Transport in Vienna; Trends in Walking and Cycling

The latest articles from Ralph Buehler, John Pucher and Alan Altshuler: Vienna, Austria reduced the car share of trips by…
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Jan. 07, 2016 / artitectus

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

  Vancouver is a young city. While this means we don’t have our own Arc de Triomphe (though some seem…
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Jan. 03, 2016 / artitectus

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” This was something a planning professor of mine once told me…
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Mar. 18, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver, Vienna, Houston and Toronto: A Comparison

Frank Ducote must have noticed that several cities were mentioned in posts yesterday – notably Vancouver and Vienna, two of…
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Jan. 08, 2015 / Gordon Price

The App Match: Smile

It looks as though there’s a competition in Europe to come up with the best comprehensive mobility app. Germany has…
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Sep. 10, 2014 / Gordon Price

By Comparison: Vienna STEPs Up

From Andreas Lindinger and Darren Davis*, at: The city of Vienna has just adopted its latest 10-year city development plan,…

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