Au Revoir, but not good-bye February 5, 2008

Off to Paris.  Back on February 25.
In the meantime, check out some old Price Tags - below.

Price Tags 100 - The Index February 4, 2008

If you’ve been a regular reader of Price Tags, you may remember an article, a picture or a link you’d like to reference - but have forgotten which issue it was in. How to find it?
At last, a solution. Issue 100 features a complete index for Price Tags 1 to 99.
Download here.

The Index is more [...]

Being Green February 4, 2008

Here’s the unedited version of last week’s Business in Vancouver column:
        Sometime in the last year – while the smart money people in North America were preoccupied with credit default swaps – bike-sharing turned into a billion-dollar industry.
        I may be exaggerating when I say “industry.” But not “billion.”
        “Banks and private equity firms are [...]

Portland Spaces February 3, 2008

Everyone (at least who reads this blog) knows Portland has a dynamic urban culture.  Naturally, there’s an online site - Portland Spaces - that brings together sources and ideas.  And within that, they have the Burnside Blog.
Here’s a taste.
Urban Uprising: The Buildings

Take your average residential lot in Portland (That’d be 5,000 square feet), build a house [...]

Lessons from the South February 3, 2008

South America, that is.  Transit wonks are familiar with the path-setting innovations of Curitiba in Brazil.  Now Bogota seems to be setting the pace. 
Tim Pawsey sends this link to a Streetsblog video on Bogota’s rapid transit.  (Who would have thought we’d be going to Colombia to model a rapid-bus system for British Columbia?)