April 2011
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Gordon Price on Why Cities Matter
A new site called – Citytank asked for short essays on why cities matter. I really like the response by Gordon Price, a former Vancouver city councillour and urbanist, about the hope and future of the suburbs (it also fits with the ideas expressed in my recent blog post). Here is his response:
When does a suburb become a city? Because that’s what the next half century is all about.
We spent the...
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Sustainable fish on the Drive! And coming soon,...
Ever since I moved to Commercial Drive a few years ago - in spite of the neighbourhood having great little grocery/produce stores like Santa Barbara, Donald’s Market and Norman’s Produce - I always moaned about the lack of good quality meat and fish around here. So you can imagine my excitement when at last, a fishmonger (do people still use that word?) has set up shop here!
According...
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Happy 125th Birthday Vancouver!
I don’t have a moment where I realized I wanted to move to Vancouver, because I was born here. But, I do remember when I realized that I did not want to live anywhere else.
It was about 10 years ago. I had been living in Ottawa during the winter for four months while working as a student for the Canadian government and I missed this city badly. When I came back, I would stare at the...
