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What do the residents of False Creek North think of living in one of the largest centrally located, high-density, pedestrian and family-oriented mixed-use neighbourhoods in the world?
Hardly anyone thinks to ask the people who move in after a project is designed and built. In this case, graduate students at UBC’s [...]
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From Marie de Medici to Simone de Beauvoir, from Descartes to Derrida – well, of course we’re talking about the design of Paris’s great parks, public spaces and promenades. This four-century scan looks at how Paris has evolved in its use of pubic space, from passive to active, and [...]
Thanks to all you PT readers who came out to celebrate the 100th issue of Price Tags and the donation of my slide collection to the Active Transportation Lab at UBC. (Special thanks to Larry Frank, the Bombardier Chair at SCARP and to the Bombardier Foundation for making it possible.)
Of course, fellow blogger Stephen Rees [...]
The Boulevard Périphérique divides the Paris region: arrondissement inside, banlieu outside; one served by transit, the other car-dominant. This issue explores an example of modern urbanism - in particular, the corporate centre of La Défense.
This issue is a revised version from the one e-mailed to the Price Tags subscription list. (If you’d like to be [...]
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For those of you who subscribe to “Price Tags” (the magazine, not the blog), you’ll know that the 100th issue - the index to all the previous issues - came out in February:
We’re going to celebrate with a little event at UBC Robson Square, this coming Monday, April 7, at 7 pm. [...]
Yet another reason to love Paris: It now has one of the world’s largest bike-sharing systems - Vélib’, or Vélo Liberté. Freedom Bike.
I not only had a chance to use the bikes for a week while in Paris but also got a tour of some of the operations. If you want a look at the future [...]
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.
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Loek Hesemans, a social policy officer with the Ministry of Health in The Netherlands came to Portland and Vancouver to see what lessons they might learn from us about the promotion of cycling. Yup, from us! Here’s an illustrated summary of his report – with lots of tags [...]
I was researching “Paris height limits” the other day. (I’m heading for the City of Light in February - actually, to “La Defense,” the corporate centre just outside the ring road. Like most places these days, it wants to be more ’sustainable.’ If you have observations or references about La Defense, send ‘em along.)
Anyway … [...]
Larry Beasley, Vancouver’s past co-Director of Planning, assembled a remarkable team of planners to advise the Emerate of Abu Dhabi. Here, in his own words, are what they found and what they achieved.
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