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1/21/2012
Planners should measure things that really count
1/7/2012
Tackling Metro’s housing challenges
12/17/2011
City’s hidden taxes contribute to the lack of affordable housing
12/3/2011
Consider tomorrow’s question today
11/19/2011
Better information required to understand housing issues
10/22/2011
It’s time for voters to occupy the ballot box
9/17/2011
Honest debate first casualty of ‘silly season’
9/3/2011
Surrey is redesigning its urban landscape
8/20/2011
The case for freehold townhouses
8/6/2011
Charrette system may be just what city needs for planning
7/23/2011
Land use, density essential to green plan
7/9/2011
Development charge debate is overdue
6/25/2011
Home prices and politicians
6/11/2011
After 10 years of discussing housing, still plenty to talk about
5/14/2011
An initiative worth taking across the city
4/30/2011
Rental housing sector feeling the HST pinch
4/16/2011
Do we need restrictions on foreign ownership?
4/2/2011
Developers are not always the bad guys
3/19/2011
Vancouver gets a chance to prove it wants to be a green city
3/5/2011
Municipalities download debt to new-home buyers
2/19/2011
Fear of the unknown includes resistance to development
2/5/2011
It’s time the public joined in the affordable-housing debate
1/8/2011
Peering into the 2011 housing picture
12/11/2010
Architecture students’ term project a first for Vancouver
11/27/2010
My ideal show-and-tell community planning process
11/13/2010
Neighbours’ loud ‘no’ puts their neighbourhoods at risk
10/30/2010
Point Grey signals a resolution to be left alone
10/2/2010
It never takes a city hall to build an Olympic village
9/20/2010
Three essentials generate orderly change in our neighbourhoods
7/24/2010
What I heard when the mayor swore
7/3/2010
New way to achieve land-use verdicts needed
6/12/2010
Let’s talk about enriching the character of our waterfront
5/15/2010
Why I lined up to tour Vancouver’s first laneway home
4/17/2010
Study, home office growing in popularity, survey discovers
3/20/2010
Why Vancouver city hall should hop on this streetcar
2/20/2010
That revolving ‘W’ celebrates a healing opportunity below
2/6/2010
Vancouver residents are already Olympic winners
1/23/2010
Downtown is too much the focus of Vancouver’s city hall
1/9/2010
Why I hope the False Creek streetcars stick around
12/12/2009
It’s not just another new year, it’s a pivotal year
11/21/2009
Is it wise to trade residential density for community benefits?
11/7/2009
How to do more than measure twice, cut once
10/17/2009
How I know Surrey’s Diane Watts is travelling the right road
10/3/2009
Metro Vancouver needs new rules for smart-growth development
9/19/2009
All talk and no action: Our transportation mess is a major roadblock to affordable residency
9/5/2009
Housing red tape a problem
8/15/2009
Land-use planning running behind transit infrastructure
7/25/2009
No pain, no gain? I wish it were so for the sake of the environment.
6/20/2009
Vancouver, 1: Leading the way, but the following is small.
6/6/2009
Agents’ primary job gets buried under pages and pages of legal requirements.
5/23/2009
Olympic Village could sell itself.
5/9/2009
City should guarantee village condo prices after Games, developers say
4/25/2009
The Geller homeless solution makes sense
3/21/2009
On getting higher with wood in B.C.
2/28/2009
Auto industry’s problems a cautionary transit tale
2/7/2009
Lessons learned from tough times
1/17/2009
Olympic Village problems ask some never-again questions.
12/13/2008
Government key to city-shaping, history tells us.
11/29/2008
Time to consider how our neighbourhoods should work.
11/15/2008
Incentives needed to spark rental growth.
11/1/2008
Price retreat a time for policy advance.
10/18/2008
Why your municipal vote matters in the long run.
10/4/2008
Hastings Street project a chance to create a real neighbourhood.
9/20/2008
Five-per-cent increase a year for 30 years is real cycle news.
9/6/2008
Keeping a bit of the past for the future.
8/23/2008
‘Old School’ courses from heritage foundation teach preservation values.
8/9/2008
Crisis, what crisis?
7/26/2008
Local condominium pioneer moves into a different market.
7/12/2008
SFU’s UniverCity embraces sustainability in a real way.
