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Apr. 12, 2022 / Gordon Price

Jane’s Walk – May 6-8 (Plus special Viewpoint treat on April 30)

Jane’s Walk is a movement of free, citizen-led walking tours inspired by Jane Jacobs, hitting the streets again May 6-8…
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Apr. 05, 2022 / Gordon Price

Revising the Grand Bargain – with Rob Grant

If the Grand Bargain is going to be discarded or majorly revised, there needs to be a new bargain –…
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May. 13, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Post-Pandemic Seasonal Restaurant

Here in the Gilford Street minipark in the West End, there is a restaurant – once the fabled Delilah’s (ask…
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Jan. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

Narratives and Demographic Realities of the West End – 2

Our ‘Fun with Numbers’ guy, Andy Coupland, ran some numbers on the West End, comparing 1981 and 2016 census.  Though…
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Jan. 08, 2021 / Gordon Price

Narratives and Demographic Realities of the West End – 1

  A few weeks ago, PT ran a post: “The West End The Way it Was.”   Its last line: “One…
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Dec. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

The West End The Way it Was

A shot posted by West End Journal, I presume from the Vancouver Archives: At a glance you’d think – San…
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Oct. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Concrete Jungle

West End street-style. 800-block Cardero In context:  …
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Aug. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Growth Downtown: A Thousand Percent in Thirty Years

The guys at Changing Vancouver have one of their ‘big picture’ views of the city this week: This is all…
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Jul. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

Astroturfing in the West End

This has all the marks of astroturfing*.  Seen in the West End on Bute at Harwood. There has to be…
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May. 14, 2020 / Gordon Price

Taking Possession of the Streets with Music

On the weekend of the sixth week of the pandemic shutdown, the weather was warm, the caseloads were dropping, and…
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Sep. 20, 2019 / Gordon Price

West End Gay Life in a Golden Glow

Imagine the West End in the seventies and early 80s.  After the highrise building boom, before Expo.  And before AIDS.…
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Sep. 10, 2019 / Gordon Price

Original Greening: How the West End went from Pavement to Plaza

Retired city planner Michael Gordon, featured in this recent PriceTalks, edited the summer issue of Sitelines, the journal of the…
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Sep. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rebuilding West Davie

As a consequence of the West End Community Plan of 2013, there is a massive rebuilding of the blocks on…
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Jul. 31, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rental Housing: Transformation and the Status Quo

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of three- (arguably four-) storey frame apartment buildings were constructed in Vancouver after the Second World War. …

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