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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:

: Price Tags 64 - What is Vancouverism?

04/12/2005

Vancouverism is only partly about buildings. It's also about the spaces between them and the connections that unite them. Moscow unrealized; Stanley Theatre; Vanishing British Columbia.; Price Tags 63 - Villages

04/04/2005

The evolution of the streetcar village into the contemporary lifestyle centre.; Price Tags 62 - From Miami's Lincoln Road to Vancouver

03/28/2005

Find out why Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach is as good as any pedestrian space, retail corridor and restaurant row you'd find in Australia.; Price Tags 61 - An inside look at Salt Lake City

03/20/2005

You won’t be in Salt Lake City for very long before someone will explain why the streets are so wide.; Price Tags 60 - Perth 4

03/13/2005

Check out a century's worth of urban evolution by looking at the development of neighborhoods in Vancouver and Perth where trams and trolleys once ran.; Price Tags 59 - Perth 3

03/03/2005

Perth has a growth rate greater than Vancouver's. Lean about Perth's adopted strategy of the 'corridor' city.; Price Tags 58 - Reader responses

02/03/2005

A Portlander's view on the Granville Mall. Waterfront Station; Transit Diversity and Vancouver's Hub.; Price Tags 57 - Circular Key

01/25/2005

Price Tags' entry to the Vancouver City Planning Commission’s 21 Places competition - Vancouver's transit hub.; Price Tags 56 - Melbourne trams

01/19/2005

What city besides San Francisco has a transit vehicle as its symbol? Response to Australian malls from the South Australian Government's spatial planning agency.; Price Tags 55 - Australia's pedestrian malls

01/13/2005

Every Australian city, large and small, has its outdoor mall. And they mostly seem to work. Here's their formula - and some good examples.; Price Tags 54 - Perth 2

01/05/2005

Perth's Subiaco development is one of the better urban-renewal transit-oriented developments in the world.; Price Tags 53 - Perth 1

12/23/2004

Perth reinvented its waterfront, transformed decaying industrial lands, and built a new kind of urban environment in a city still in love with suburbia.; Price Tags 52 - Australian style; Granville Island

12/16/2004

Get acquainted with some of the elements that go into the distinctive modernist look that Australians have so skillfully refined.; Price Tags 51 - More on Elsie Roy Elementary

12/07/2004

Elsie Roy is a school of 280, with a library that looks onto the waters of False Creek, a community centre across the street, a playground and field next door, and a seawall right out front.; Price Tags 50 - Origins of modern Vancouver

10/13/2004

This issue begins a series on how contemporary Vanouver came to be, highlighting the issues that led to change, the people who generated and reacted to that change, and how that change is affecting the world.