Price Tags urban design newsletter
Price Tags is an electronic newsletter by former Vancouver, BC, city councillor and Sightline board member Gordon Price. It illustrates what's happening in Vancouver, discusses its development, and explores urban issues generally.
Price Tags is an e-newsletter authored by former Vancouver, BC, city councillor and Sightline board member Gordon Price. It illustrates what's happening in Vancouver, and explores urban issues with fantastic photographs that tell the story of our region's development.
Visit the Price Tags website to see recent issues and learn more about Gordon Price. See an index (pdf) of all issues and topics.
To subscribe, send an e-mail to pricetags@shaw.ca
The most recent issues of Price Tags, in pdf form:
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Price Tags 94 - Tampa's Car-centered Design
06/06/2007
The strip, the grid, and lots and lots of parking lots. Tampa Bay is everywhere accessible by car, and only cars. -
Price Tags 93 - Three Parts of Melbourne
04/30/2007
How Melbourne has become an even better city than it was. And why Brisbane, in one way at least, is even better than Melbourne. -
Price Tags 92- A Walk around the West End
04/10/2007
What's new in Gordon Price's neighborhood. A walk around the West End's new buildings during cherry blossom season. -
Price Tags 91- Australia's Gold Coast
03/26/2007
Queensland's Gold Coast has a new regional plan with lessons for places like Greater Vancouver. -
Price Tags 90 - Mutual Admirers
01/08/2007
A comparison of Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, BC – the poster children of good urbanism in their respective countries – and how they influence each other. -
Price Tags 89 - West Los Angeles
11/27/2006
Los Angeles is shrinking. Or at least the compact cities that make up West LA. And Chicago's Millennium Park is as good as I expected. -
Price Tags 88 - Intersections
09/05/2006
Price Tags looks at two downtown intersections in emerging neighbourhoods of Vancouver - Downtown South and Triangle West - and looks for the common elements that transform a street corner into a crossroads. -
Price Tags 87 - Montreal Public Spaces
08/16/2006
What’s it take to make great urban spaces? Montreal’s got a few. And why hasn’t Vancouver done as well? -
Price Tags 86 - Sculpture Biennale
07/03/2006
A special all-photograph issue celebrating the Fourth Vancouver Sculpture Biennale. -
Price Tags 84 - Art & Engineering
05/14/2006
Is cultural sustainability achieved by funding the arts, building performance spaces into complete communities, acknowledging multicultural realities? Price Tags looks at Seattle's Vine Street Project. -
Price Tags 83 - Larry Beasley
04/23/2006
Larry Beasley, Vancouver’s outgoing Director of Current Planning, talks to the Urban Development Institute about recent trends and upcoming opportunites in the city. -
Price Tags 82 - Denver
03/20/2006
Denver is a town that aspires to greatness--but this surprising remnant of the City Beautiful era comes with a warning for urbanists. -
Price Tags 81 - San Francisco
02/12/2006
Once upon a time San Francisco was going to build a grid of freeways that would have transformed the City. Here's what happened.
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