By Gordon Price
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Price Points: Towers in the Bush
You see these towers from Highway 1, heading east, way beyond the Vancouver City border. Why aren’t they in the West End? . . This surprising...
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Price Points: A Vision from the Sixties
It’s the Sixties, it’s a municipal town centre – but where? . . It’s a 1968 concept plan by the Vancouver firm of Ehling &...
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Price Points – Visions of Metrotown
Yes, this is a vision of Burnaby’s Metrotown – from 1971. Here’s the map of this region’s first purpose-built town centre. And...
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Price Points – The Land Bridge
It looks like a heavily landscaped path in some park, or perhaps part of the South False Creek seawall – but it isn’t. . It’s this: The...
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Price Points: A Place that Matters
Where is this – and why does it matter? Enough to be worthy of a plaque that says so. . . Okay, easy guess on the location: it’s the Vancouver...
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Price Points: A Golden Intersection
Where is this, and why do they call it The Golden Intersection? . . It’s Shanghai – to be specific, the view towards the meeting of the...
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Price Points: Report from the Development Wars
Where is this going to be built – and what lesson is there to be learned? . . This is the proposed residential tower for 1241 Harwood in the West...
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Price Points: Naked in Auckland
Where is this street in Auckland, New Zealand, and why is it naked? . . This is Elliott Street in the heart of Auckland’s Central Business District...
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Price Points: A Noshery
Where is this, and why is it not your average food cart? . It’s in Portland. No surprise there, for those who have followed the migration of food...
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Price Points: Someplace Beautiful
Where is this, and why is it signficant? It may be the most idyllic garden shed in the Lower Mainland. This is part of Darts Hill Garden Park (map here...
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Price Points: An Interesting Street
Michael Alexander, a Vancouver urbanist, thinks this is actually the most interesting block on one of the most interesting streets in the city at the...
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Price Points: Baby Demons
A shining black baby with webbed wings – both cute and ominous. But where is it? Maybe you recognized the portico of the Town Hall or some of the...