Price Tags is my electronic magazine, mainly devoted to things urban. Though I have a special attachment to Vancouver, I’ve been trying to feature the cities I’m fortunate to be able to visit.
This issue features an insight that, frankly, wasn’t mine. At a conference in West Hollywood, Gregory Tung (of Freedman Tung & Bottomley) noted that LA [...]
While the ‘Vancouver Style’ (the so-called point-and-podium) has much to recommend it, particularly the way it relates to its neighbours and the ground plane, there are rather a lot of towers that look so much the same. All that glass, so little distinction.
Now that residential towers are becoming popular in other cities, we’ll have a chance to [...]
Ah, the three-storey walk-up …
The nadir of architectural design in the 20th century, built by the hundreds (if not thousands) in Vancouver from about 1945 to 1955.
According to the Goodman Report, the newsletter of the dominant realtor for these buildings in the region, the typical 15-to-20 suite apartment currently sells for between $100,000 to $190,000 per [...]
The West is beginning to catch on: Seoul has created the most significant new public space in the world. Here’s an article from the Guardian on the Cheonggyecheon greenway:
The demolition of a vast motorway through the centre of South Korea’s capital and the restoration of a river and park in its place proves that [...]
I’m back. Let’s start with something hilarious from the Aussies.
Chasers - Trojan Horse
It’s been a blissful fall. Now the rains have come, the days are all too short, but at least we have the memories.
I’m off to Chicago for a week to attend the Rail-volution conference. See you later.
(But feel free to keep the comments coming, particularly under the “Pricing Gateway” post below.)
Bob Ransford, public-affairs consultant and Homes columnist in the Sun, did a nice piece on laneway housing that you can find here (if you’re a Sun subscriber.) He reports on the Karakas study I mentioned below:
Vancouver planning consultants Holland Barrs, a firm that has established itself at the leading edge of sustainability planning and design, is [...]
At the provincial Liberal Party convention in Penticton this weekend, there’ll be a support motion for Gateway from Burnaby-Willingdon. Not surprising, that - but it goes further….
“Encourage the transportation ministry to construct grade-separated interchanges at high-volume intersections on the provincial highway network, with the ideal of building them to freeway standards. “
And here’s the audacious [...]
Last night, Brent Toderian, the City’s new Director of Planning, explained at an SFU City Program ‘conversation,’ why he chose to come to Vancouver. It was the opportunity, said the ex-Calgarian, to help a city that was already heading in the right direction to really take off, to build on the successes already achieved in [...]
If the old line about ‘publish or perish’ is true for academia, I’m deeply appreciative to Bill Boei at the Vancouver Sun for giving me a little ink at the GVRD “Future of the Region” forum at the Wosk Centre last Monday. This one was on transportation.
The provincial government’s $3-billion Gateway project will commit Greater [...]
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