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Jul. 17, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Encroachment of the Humans

Vancouver continues to repurpose public space for people. More examples, this time from Davie Street in the city’s West End. One…
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Apr. 11, 2018 / Gordon Price

The Development of Davie West – 1

In 2013, City Council passed this: This community plan was a response to objections over the development of a few…
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Feb. 20, 2018 / Gordon Price

Tales From the West End – Feb 20

“Tales From the West End” is an evening of story-telling where we explore and experience our community through stories about…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Gordon Price

Two Tales

Tales From the West End – February February’s featured storyteller is educator and historian Isaac Vanderhorst who will intrigue us with his…
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Jan. 18, 2018 / Gordon Price

Disruptive Change in Vancouver

Changing Vancouver just posted a particularly graphic example of possibly the worst transition from good to bad architectural and urban…
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Dec. 03, 2017 / michaelkluckner

Sunday nostalgia…

Mixing all forms of transportation at Chilco and Georgia in 1936, a photo from the interesting collection on the Three…
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Oct. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Most Beautiful Blocks in Fall

My nomination for the most beautifully treed street in Vancouver has always been the 13-1400 blocks of Barclay Street in…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Gordon Price

Change in the West End: What comes next?

Chain restaurants don’t do that well in the West End.  One year, back in the 1980s, about five closed down…
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Sep. 11, 2017 / Gordon Price

Bing Thom's West End Highrise

This almost-completed Harwood-Street highrise hasn’t received much profile yet, even though it is one the last buildings designed under Bing…
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May. 26, 2017 / Gordon Price

The Dilemma of Affordable Housing Design

We never used to have a term called ‘affordable housing.’  If housing was produced by the market, it was affordable…
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Sep. 27, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Living In the West End

After living now for a year in the West End of Vancouver, I have moved from liking it (a lot)…
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Sep. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

West End: The Meaning of a Memorial

Pete McMartin in the Sun covers a contentious issue: Last Friday, at the corner of Jervis and Pendrell in the…
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Sep. 07, 2016 / Gordon Price

My Life with Mobi

PT: I joined Mobi as a founder member; it seemed the right thing to do – even though I was…
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Aug. 08, 2016 / Gordon Price

Mobi Rollout: The supermarket connection

This is useful: a docking station right at the entrance to the neighbourhood supermarket at Robson and Denman: When you…

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